US Politics, March 2023: "We want our own safe space, and we deserve it"

Gosar's affect is so weird. He 100 percent gives off "crazy guy at public forum" vibes, like he's about to whip out a handwritten manifesto and read you VERY SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.

he seems a bit drunk

"are you prepared to suggest something incredibly dumb while pretending that you're a hero?"

Gosar: "i will do you one more, i will do something incredibly dumb ten times, and i am a hero"

*head involuntarily swings like a pendulum to one side*

i forgot, gosar was the guy whose family spoke out against him because he sucked so badly at everything except being a dentist

In September 2018, six of Gosar's nine siblings spoke out against their brother and endorsed his Democratic opponent, David Brill, in a series of television campaign ads that drew national and international coverage.[44][45] In the first ad, sisters Grace and Jennifer, both identified as health care providers, told viewers that their brother did not care about people in rural Arizona. In another ad, called "A family defends its honor," brother David Gosar, a lawyer, declared, "We've got to stand up for our good name. This is not who we are." Paul Gosar responded to the ads on Twitter, describing his siblings as "disgruntled Hillary supporters" who "put political ideology before family".[46]

Gosar defeated Brill in the November 2018 general election with 68.2% of the vote.

cool, good luck with those criminal referrals that will result in no charges.

Pretty sure Gosar has some degenerative disease (which he has not publicly acknowledged). Parkinson's or something.

No he's a degenerate with a disease

the whole point of gosar saying that was just to remind the faithful that anyone who questions the trumpist party line on January 6 is a traitor and an enemy for whom hanging is too good. no referrals will be forthcoming because what could evidence of crimes they refer to?

er, make that: evidence of crimes could

I was watching some hearing recently and Gosar was trying to be all confrontational and damning, but his gotcha questions kept falling flat because he had his head down reading them stumblingly off a script instead of speaking into his mic, and his victim kept blandly asking "sorry, I couldn't hear you, could you repeat the question?"

I used to joke that the incoming Supreme Court would eventually do away with those pesky child labor laws.

fuck fuck fuck. me too. it’s terrifying

A few things about the upcoming Texas judge ruling on abortion pill

https://msmagazine.com/2023/03/03/texas-judge-abortion-pill-ban-mifepristone/

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk not only tried to conceal his plans for a preliminary injunction hearing over the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, but also hid last Friday’s proceedings — a 30-minute phone conference — from his docket until yesterday. Behold the backdated docket: pic.twitter.com/AaDEpK2M9G

— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) March 14, 2023

Good morning!

the article I shared above, and a similar one the same three legal experts authored in Slate, are literally the only voices suggesting that tomorrow's ruling doesn't mean the drug will be pulled off the shelves everywhere. having no legal background, I can't tell if these three don't represent the mainstream opinion, or if the media just got the whole story wrong and kept running with it.

even if they're right, they admit it's still bad and will lead to bad things, but I am really hoping Biden's FDA doesn't act like a bunch of cowardly fools, and immediate issues a response that says they will not be enforcing or taking any action against the distributors of the drug. failing to do that will mean the manufacturers stop shipping it and making it even if technically the judge can't unilaterally ban it.

but note that the manufacturer of the generic is not named in the suit as well. so there's also that angle.

garcetti nomination hearing today. just here for the ongoing humiliation of one of america's least capable democrats.

Sen GRAHAM says “I might” support Garcetti’s nomination, saying “we need an ambassador to India, I understand the accusations. a lot of friends of mine vouch for him.”

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) March 15, 2023

Not Good...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-announces-takeover-houston-schools-160929987.html

the pudding incident

The pudding incident, which former DeSantis staffers describe as a common instance of him not reading the room (in this case, a very intimate flight cabin): https://t.co/KEwA7F9Pgr pic.twitter.com/s29MjZB4Ml

— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) March 16, 2023

From behind the paywall:

The chatter over DeSantis’ public engagement has also surfaced past unflattering stories about his social skills—particularly, his propensity to devour food during meetings.

“He would sit in meetings and eat in front of people,” a former DeSantis staffer told The Daily Beast, “always like a starving animal who has never eaten before… getting shit everywhere.”

Enshrined in DeSantis lore is an episode from four years ago: During a private plane trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C., in March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert—by eating it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident.

A representative for DeSantis’ political team did not return a request for comment on it.

No wonder he is thinks vaccines are pointless, he's probably immune to everything communicable by now.

That's just Meatball Ron

thanks, new name

Ron DeSlobis

Slob DeSantis?

Three Fingers Ron

I feel like this is a superpower he could use against Trump. Just start eating during a debate and spraying food particles everywhere.

There's no way Trump loses that battle.

Pudding Ron

Puddin' Taint

I'm glad some fucking reporter finally echoed what I've been saying:

“In a way, the Republican dominance of the Florida Legislature may end up hurting DeSantis because his proposals can become reality,” said Barrett Marson, a Republican strategist in Arizona. “That may help him in a primary in Iowa or Texas or South Dakota, but in a general election in Arizona, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, it could be ruinous for him.”

That fear isn’t lost on Republican primary voters, either. In hypothetical matchups with Biden in a Morning Consult poll this week, DeSantis fared no better than Trump, with each trailing the incumbent Democrat by 1 percentage point. Moreover, when asked in a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll who had the best chance of winning in 2024, DeSantis didn’t stand out against Trump, either, with about as many Republicans and Republican-leaning independents naming Trump as DeSantis. That is a major shift from December, when far more Republicans viewed DeSantis as the more electable Republican.

yea I think I read that on ilxor.com a year ago, "DeSantis is gonna look like the future of the Republican party up until people outside of Florida hear him talk"

And just below the masthead this surprising column by Starbusts Lowry.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/16/republicans-biden-trump-2024-election-00087242

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,q_60,w_965/e5062c5f5581f924b14c796ae5702fcd.jpg

"So... I'll bet you guys had some fun in 'Nam, right? That's what you call it, am I right?"

"You guys were in the shit?"

"We were in the shit."

"I have a new handbag that was made in Vietnam, I love it to death!"

new Huckabee grift just dropped pic.twitter.com/BCyqparqVl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrbbSU7XgAMAS3V?format=jpg&name=small

those tubes lead to a giant, steaming vat of woke

Are we not men?

Not to eat with three fingers
That is the law

The only way to stave off illusory indoctrination is to willingly allow some maniac rando to indoctrinate you for real, I thought everyone knew this

but the kids, the kids!

the Defund & Socialist kids look like they're finally seeing things clearly for the first time

Wokepilled

Not to eat with three fingers
That is the law

giant lol

those tubes lead to a giant, steaming vat of woke

I thought they were the tentacles of the woketopus

genuinely made me LOL pic.twitter.com/d6cyqCUkUr

— mindy🌷 (@mindyisser) March 19, 2023