US Politics, May 2023: May 1 never happened

Encephalitis can be a complication of shingles. It sounds awful.

I think the dilemma right now is that she is the tipping vote on the judiciary committee, and the democrats really need her to vote to confirm new federal judges. McConnell has vowed to block any new Democratic appointment to the committee if she resigns, which means no more democratic-appointed judges until at least the next election, if not much later (given the 2024 Senate map for Democrats). I'm not sure that he can deliver on that threat, but it seems like the Democrats on the committee are taking it seriously

DeSantis is gonna get JEBbed

Trump is on team Disney. pic.twitter.com/IqOG6A08tq

— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) May 18, 2023

with a complete GOP hegemony in Florida, he can get passed whatever he wants.. that's not politics, that requires no skill

This is the unfortunate reality. At this point, Feinstein resigning would actually make things worse by stalemating the Judiciary Committee. Where the real absolutely indefensible fuck-up occurred was her decision to seek re-election https://t.co/rcxvj0WgZX

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) May 18, 2023

yes that's true but remonstrating about the past will not help us now. we need to get through the next year.

we also have to get beyond the debt ceiling standoff and its apocalyptic repercussions. from the comments I've read above, it seems that some are thinking it is just another government shutdown, but it is not

remonstrating about the future itt helps even less than remonstrating about the past

I missed this one

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gerry-connolly-staffers-attacked-baseball-bat/

we also have to get beyond the debt ceiling standoff and its apocalyptic repercussions. from the comments I've read above, it seems that some are thinking it is just another government shutdown, but it is not

why not?

It's the difference between not paying your rent and setting your apartment on fire

So we really are rapidly transforming into a country with half the states strictly anti-everything (but guns and religion), aren't we? Nice to see this failed nation settle into a freshly explicit state of cultural segregation.

whoa, you sound 'woke' bro

The self-sorting of the US population into whole towns of like-minded, economically homogenous affinity groups goes back at least as far as the Levittowns and "retirement communities". Probably been happening much longer, if I did some genuine research on it. It's just we're much further along that road now than, let's say, in the year 2000 so that the sorting is being applied a the level of entire states, not just middle-sized towns.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/washington-police-officer-charged-over-allegedly-aiding-proud-boys-leader-2023-05-19/

We're back to antebellum and post-Civil War times! Yay!

The head of an intelligence unit of Washington's police department faces criminal charges after allegedly warning the leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group about an arrest warrant and leaking other law enforcement information, an indictment released on Friday showed.

Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Shane Lamond gave Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio confidential information about an investigation into the 2020 burning of a "Black Lives Matter" banner stolen from a church in the U.S. capital and later told him that he faced arrest in the matter, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Lamond, who supervised the Intelligence Branch of the police department's Homeland Security Bureau, also made false and misleading statements to federal law enforcement agents about his communications with Tarrio, the Justice Department said.

A federal grand jury indicted Lamond, who was arrested on Friday, on one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements. He faces a maximum of 30 years in prison.

(xp)

Lamond’s life is about to change in some non-insignificant ways.

Maybe the worse retail politician ever. Just brutal to watch pic.twitter.com/uNOMRWkuJh

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 21, 2023

"Okay"

LOL he really said "okay."

people who want to be politicians really are freaks

i wonder if any of them has ever tried the move where you preemptively say "i'm not going to remember all of your names, haha!" and then stare blankly as everyone in a circle introduces themselves, and then one of the people in the circle says "it's easy for us to remember your name, you're the only new one here!" while the new politician meekly jokes that perhaps everyone could wear a name tag

LOOK OUT DONALD TRUMP, THE UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM OF TIM SCOTT IS GONNA GET YOU!!

Breaking News: Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina announced a 2024 campaign, adding to a list of Republicans challenging Donald Trump. https://t.co/GJggejaVcI pic.twitter.com/m5yWohL6KA

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 22, 2023

https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/3467215279_94c64f8f32_b-930x761.jpg

i guess scott is campaigning for vp or a cabinet position. iirc he hasn't been able to say anything he dislikes about donald trump or his policies, when asked

also I don't think Trump has dissed him yet

yikes pic.twitter.com/qQI39DBN3t

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2023

OK Soda was tasty I miss it

That DeSantis video omg. I can finally see it: Ron DeSantis is Kendall Roy.

He does seem like someone who has started medication for social anxiety and walks into room full of people thinking, "I've totally got this" and then he starts to feel gravity pushing him back down

^^^ otm

haha, i am actually kind of astonished that fox and ingraham issued a retraction for their racist story, but also, i figured this tweeters text description was a paraphrasing of ingraham's words, but no, it's verbatim

Ingraham: A little update on a story we brought you this week about homeless vets being displaced from hotels so illegals can move in, turns out the group behind the claim made it up. We have no clue why anyone would do such a thing pic.twitter.com/BEZ4c2buMx

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2023

Def getting smarmy Jason Bateman vibes from that DeSantis clip. Also stealing the "OK" response to the guy introducing himself.

Reports based on various tweets by left wing activists are wildly inaccurate — Laura Ingraham, the top-rated woman in cable news, is now and will continue to be a prominent host and integral part of the Fox News lineup.

Notice that they don't deny Ingraham is leaving primetime.

tom carper is not running for reelection next year

Delaware will find another credit card-carrying Democrat.

We have no clue why anyone would do such a thing

o rly?

Feel the TimMentum

first reply lmao

Why does he sound like this pic.twitter.com/0xwFT6BSN4

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 21, 2023

that DeSantis clip… whew. If he wasn’t such a fascist I’d feel some sense of pity.

With no votes to spare, Minnesota Democrats have implemented vast new social programs, enacted protections for groups threatened by far-right states and the Supreme Court, strengthened unions, poured money into schools, replaced infrastructure, and fed every Minnesota child.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) May 23, 2023

meanwhile, here in Texas things seems to be going in the opposite direction

Texas GOP legislature voted last night to give Republican secretary of state power to take over elections in state’s largest blue county, Houston’s Harris County, & abolish election administrator position there. This is incredibly undemocratic power grab https://t.co/dgZAsQeBhx

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 23, 2023

^^^Is that a novelty gavel, just a trick of perspective, or is he really tiny?

re: My earlier question of why New York Democrats suck, I read (I think on Twitter) the hypothesis that purple state Democrats, or at least Dems with only a small majority, feel pressure to deliver on their campaign promises while they are in power, while states where Dems seem to have a permanent lock like NY (or, I would argue, my former state of Maryland) the elected Dems only care about jockeying for personal power/seniority within the party apparatus, and actually *doing things* is not a priority since they'll get elected anyway. There's also the fact that if you are in a city or state where only people with a "D" next to their name win, that willattract people to run for office who in any other state/city would run as Republicans (Eric freaking Adams).

^^^Is that a novelty gavel, just a trick of perspective, or is he really tiny?

I mean have you seen the size of american flags flying over car dealerships in texas...?

new york dems with minnesota dems
a supermajority with a 1 vote majority https://t.co/uJ9PTAse5y pic.twitter.com/sm7amwNw6D

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) May 22, 2023

IL has a supermajority and doesn't seem to be spinning its wheels, afaict.

fucking. hell.

Boebert: I actually have a fun little story, my staff is probably going to talk to me about this later. I left a prescription at a pharmacy once… pic.twitter.com/6p1g25cpYk

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 23, 2023

What the fuck hahaha

Well it was a fun story

I'll bet Kaydon feels really special now.

Have none of these people ever heard of condoms

nah, they cover your tattoos

rofl