U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

If you don't know what the WMV is then you probably already have it.

Mississippi also banned teaching one of the bedrocks of higher-tier Algebra, invisible numbers, quite a few decades ago. They’ve always been dead last in nationwide educational outcomes for a reason, but the state next to them which is shaped like a urinal is plummeting, too

I have no fucking doubt that DeSantis will become POTUS in 2024, especially if Biden dies/steps down and Harris won’t move aside

I have a lot of doubts he'll become president – and I live in Florida.

yeah, his appeal is, uh, 'limited'

I really think this book-banning stuff doesn't go over well. It doesn't make people feel good, appeals to a fairly small group. All of the anti-woke stuff I think they're just way overplaying. Lots of people do not give much of a shit about it.

yeah this culture war shit won't get him very far on the national stage. really his anti-education agenda is just an admission that Republicans want their constituents to be stupid and hateful

will enough people see it that way?

Yeah a lot of people are normal

The Democrats, as I've learned, no longer need the state with the prettiest name.

If DeSantis really understands the prototype established by Trump, once he enters the primaries he'll expand his crazy shit to include more than just pandering to dominionists and neo-fascists, and start promising a return to some pre-civil rights era White Person Eden, including fabulous health care for Good People Like You, high-paying jobs, and show trials for the Democrat Commies held at NASCAR rallies.

Mississippi also banned teaching one of the bedrocks of higher-tier Algebra, invisible numbers, quite a few decades ago.

wait what?

do you mean imaginary numbers? numbers that are not easily understood, like infinitesimals, zero, and imaginary numbers have a long history of being banned by various authorities, like the catholic church. zeno's paradox is ungodly!

Believe they are based on square roots, as in rootless cosmopolitans, so yeah.

i just remembered that ben sasse resigned so that he could have the honor of being a figurehead in this movement. fucking horrible person

I live in Iowa and have had to deal with associated bullshit forever but the idea of a Nebraskan ideologue is a thought beyond. Good luck with that, Sasse

I thought he was just in for the money (better salary than a senator, although you’d think fewer opportunities for $ via corruption (?)) but he must have been drawn to the more direct opportinity for ignorant cruelty? Or maybe it’s some sort of stepping stone? If desantis succeeds in national
office he’ll be rewarded? Again, just a horrible person

Nikki Haley is running for president.

Lucky us. Maybe when the February thread starts tomorrow we can not follow up on that and let it sit here like a lump in a demolished outhouse.

Nikki Haley has always and never been running for president

Maxine Waters taking no malarkey from this weirdo

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) just formally testified to the Republican-led House Rules Committee that the real threat to democracy is House Republicans.

😂

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 1, 2023

Time for a new month of political nattering. Who who's brave enough to bell the cat?

US Politics, February 2023: No classified documents found in Justice Department search of ILX

farewell, kevin, you miserable bastard