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

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

“Culturally I identify with Pepin County, Wisconsin.”

Huge lol at this tweet: I’m from, like, all the swing states.

So he's saying he was born Floridian but ... identifies as Rust Belt? Sounds pretty woke, DeSantis.

"My pronouns are 'youse' and 'yinz'."

lol

I would also love a good explainer on how, why and when someone decided blue-collar white guys in Pennsylvania are the ur-Americans. It's Biden's whole shtick too obviously.

pittsburgs got the soot covered iron workers and phillys got the yelling across the street guys, the two types of working class whites

I think all of your questions might be answered by listening to Billy Joel's "Allentown".

Will we ever have a Mummer President?

I bet Gritty could get elected nationally.

Tipsy, it's an old trope but I think this is where it became employed tactically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber

Yeah and even older than that, it was part of Nixon's whole "silent majority" pitch. I just think it's funny that specifically white working-class Pennsylvania gets elevated to this mythical status. As a Penn State grad with an ex-father-in-law who was central casting for the type it feels like such a weird reductive idea of "America."

They're all Archie Bunker, just transposed to a state with winnable electoral votes

if only trump can stop world war 3 and he's going to be in prison after Tuesday then what?

this would be hilarious, please let it happen

One of the risks of putting Trump in jail pending trial is that Proud Boys and others may make a serious attempt to break him out of jail.

If you think I'm being sensationalistic, remember that a lot of folks said something like January 6 was impossible.

— Max Burns (@themaxburns) March 19, 2023

Just out here posing with an underage kid wearing a shirt celebrating oral sex between firearms.

Can you believe Hunter Kimbell was disciplined for wearing this shirt in Utah? pic.twitter.com/DKXrfMEkRc

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 18, 2023

I’m just surprised De Santis didn’t t try to cover all the swing states. “I carry on the legacy of my Arizonan/Georgian/Michigan/North Carolinan/Pennsylvanian/Ohioan” ancestors.”

my presidential run biopic will say this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED_1Hz3XoAE3Jlp.jpg

If you think I'm being sensationalistic

Peddling the idea that Trump will be held in jail pending trial is completely sensationalistic. Won't happen. Crazy to suggest it will.

he won’t be held in jail if he’s convicted of anything is my expectation

no president of the country, former or current, will ever be in jail a day

The dreams people had of Nixon.

good morning!

I’m going full resistance lib this week

why not treat yrself

full resistance libs will spend all week complaining about Merrick Garland and being upset that Trump isn't in handcuffs

I hear the Marshal of the Supreme Court is making his move.

Thurgood?

I heard trump is going to be executed at Guantanamo by a military commission headed by JFK Jr

But if you buy a $80 commemorative gold coin which will only increase in value in the future, it helps him to take back America