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

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the Treasury Department from turning over several years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee"

I'm kind of picturing the room with Ned Beatty from Network and the message being "tell the Justices to take him down, he is of no use to us now".

Rep. Chip Roy on members of the military celebrating Pride month: "We need to refocus our military on what it's supposed to do, which is blow things up and kill people." pic.twitter.com/sLXM6TuwxA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 23, 2022

A stopped clock

The military seems pretty focused on those things already.

They're really best in class at it.

I mean, it’s an honest mistake, right? https://www.newsweek.com/herschel-walkers-erection-remark-spark-torrent-memes-jokes-1761658?amp=1

A new low for Pompeo:

In an interview with Semafor this week, Pompeo said: “I get asked, ‘Who’s the most dangerous person in the world? Is it Chairman Kim, is it Xi Jinping?’ The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It’s not a close call. If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teachers’ unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing.”

God he's a fucking asshole

He somehow thinks he's got a shot at the 2024 nomination. But, like so many in the field, he's just an asshole without Trump's power to mobilize the mouth-breathing masses.

yeah, I think he's just desperate to get noticed, so there will probably be more hateful drivel - he's just so utterly without charm, the dickhead thing is all he's got

Mrs. Gomez and her girlfriend are a bigger threat than the China guy.

Pompeo is like Chris Christie without his endearing comedic qualities.

Peace out, Sarah Palin

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/23/alaska-election-results-00070808

Peace out, Sarah Palin

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/23/alaska-election-results-00070808🕸

yaaassss

Murkowski first joined the Senate in 2002, when she was appointed by her father, then-Gov. Frank Murkowski, to fill a vacant seat. This wasn’t the first time she’s faced opposition from conservativates: In her 2010 reelection bid, Murkowski was defeated by a right-wing primary challenger, Joe Miller, but came back to beat Miller in the general election as a write-in candidate.

Low population state and all, but still that's kind of incredible

And Peltola will likely be Alaska's next Democratic senator. Well played.

lmao pic.twitter.com/1IMAakt3mQ

— hannah gais (@hannahgais) November 26, 2022

Whoever wrote that could have tried to make it sound like him.

The "vote for TRUMP" part kind of sounds like him.

Narrator: He definitely knew Nick Fuentes.

"Fuentes can't be a racist. His name is Fuentes!'

TBF, he expressed no anti-Semitism.

BTW Fuentes says De Santis is his guy now

Apparently that’s a misquote? He was saying Ye was his guy, I think.

nothing Ye can say
can take him away
from his guy

O Ye of little faith

I'm glad West is running for president. I want Tulsi Gabbard and Ron DeSantis and every single right-wing nutbag I've ever heard of to run for president in 2024, too. All of them. And I want them all to sucker their idiot followers into setting up automatic donations, month after month after month, until every mouth-breathing knuckle-walker in the country is dead broke. Fuck all these scumbags.

How great thou fart

Pretty great tbqfh

As a congressman to one of the largest Muslim-American constituencies in the country, it’s with immense pride that we watch the first Arab-hosted #WorldCup. The play on the pitch has been phenomenal — but it’s been matched by Qatar’s showcasing of the region’s religion & culture.

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 26, 2022

thanks, Swalwell, you're making me agree with Stephen Fucking Miller and Christina Pushaw.

Yeah, that’s not really the lesson to take from this event.

The Senior Senator and Junior Senator from Texas must share the same digital firm, and maybe one or both need to find a new one. pic.twitter.com/lYxMs7eIQG

— Jennifer Harris 🇺🇦 🧂™️ (@jwharris) November 25, 2022

Maybe it was really Cornyn looking at milf porn on 9/11 all those years ago...

Swalwell's just acting like a mirror that his constituents can gaze at and see themselves reflected back. I'm pretty sure the preponderance of his Muslim-American constituency is excited about and proud of the Qatar World Cup and don't see anything bad about the glowing puff pieces that are being aired in conjunction with it. It's no different than a politician wrapping themself in the flag on July 4.

Aimless, you often come in and explain the logic behind such repellent statements. Trust me when I say I understand the logic and political calculus happening, but that doesn’t make the statement any less repellent. If anything, it makes it worse, in my eyes.

Lucky for all of us almost no one pays attention to such statements. They are part of the coin of politics, but they are of such small value in real terms that they get thrown around like pitching pennies. It's not worth getting het up about them because they carry less weight in the world than a late night ad for a cut-rate mattress store.

Right! No need to explain them then. We've all read them, we get it.

akm seemed to be a bit hot about it and wasn't acting like one of the we who 'all get it'.

swalwell represents the district I lived in before I moved to Barbara Lee's district, and even though Swalwell acts like an annoying baby sometimes, in general, I like him, which is why I disliked that statement so much.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/28/house-dems-on-gops-thin-majority-welcome-to-hell-00070473

While Republicans say McCarthy will undoubtedly stick to his vow to ban proxy voting — which they’ve used to accuse Democrats of not showing up to work — privately some GOP lawmakers acknowledge they’re worried about their small margins, given that there’s bound to be at least a few absences from each floor vote.

Warnock team discovers the power of cringe as a political weapon

Georgia deserves better than Herschel Walker.

Vote today or as soon as you can! Visit https://t.co/lzN6iu3pOH to find where you can vote early. pic.twitter.com/KPsq9rc1qy

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 26, 2022

It’s a great ad.

wow the landing, the last moment, is just fantastic

as a citizen of the united states and, more importantly, a minnesota vikings fan i will die with a white hot hatred of that man

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-did-not-know-identity-of-dinner-guest-owing-to-white-hood

This sucks

As a proud pro-labor President, I'm reluctant to override the ratification procedures and views of those who voted against the agreement.

But in this case – where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt millions – I believe Congress must use its powers to adopt this deal.

— President Biden (@POTUS) November 29, 2022

Jfc

“slave for us so we can keep profiting off you” is the heart of both parties.

“vote blue no matter who”

Would this action be the end of it?

I didn’t vote for Biden!