US Politics, May 2023: May 1 never happened

The intoxication in question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6VuQsKihWk

i thought the F in florida in that was a gun at first, not the state outline

xp looks like he had a texas-sized vodka tonic to go with that texas-sized gavel

not the point, but re: that texas ag, i don't think spies usually try to control land

it’s drummed up cold war racism, obv.

Holy shit the Musk/DeSantis thing is being moderated by David Sacks?

I don't even know what Chinese spies controlling Texas land refers to, that's some conspiracy you don't know about unless you hit the right rallies I guess. Chinese energy firms buying up land in West Texas probably.

xp Yeah Florida just passed laws against Chinese citizens owning property there (ACLU has filed suit)... TX doesn't want to be left behind in the Ugly American competition

right, but spies? if they're spies they're not very good spies. the attorney general knows about them and is mentioning them in press releases.

There has been some reports of Chinese gov't police stations quietly opening around the country (mostly to harass Chinese citizens living in the US), but I don't know if that's what he's referring to

It’s all the kids with TikTok on their phones

right, but spies? if they're spies they're not very good spies. the attorney general knows about them and is mentioning them in press releases.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, May 23, 2023 4:04 PM

They're buying up land to "build energy making facilities" but really they will have spying stations there. [Eddie Murphy head tap GIF]

Kayode Ewumi head tap GIF

OK, I am shockingly old ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/florida-school-inaugural-poem-ban-00098492

A more thorough story: https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article275671496.html

I read (is that still legal?) that something like just 11 individual parents have been responsible for the majority of books being flagged/pulled/banned.

All's it takes in Florida is one complaint; and, yes, it's a First Amendment violation.

I was at a school board meeting last night where a woman read quotes from Frederick Douglas on free speech, and claimed that her free speech was being infringed because the board had not acted on her emails demanding that a book about a trans girl be banned from the schools.

lol

Nikki Haley in New Hampshire this morning:

"Everybody know about Dylan Mulvaney? Bud Light? That is a guy, dressed as a girl, making fun of women."

She's at Politics and Eggs, not a red meat crowd; no applause for a line that gets some elsewhere.

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 24, 2023

These dumbasses, the cynicism and stupidity are so intertwined I can't tell if they're honestly stupid, dishonestly playing stupid, stupidly being cynical, just cynical, etc.

“Everybody knows”

More from Gaetz, who rejects any debt limit compromise with the White House: “I think my conservative colleagues for the most part support Limit, Save, Grow, & they don't feel like we should negotiate with our hostage.”

Default would almost certainly throw US into recession

— Joseph Zeballos-Roig (@josephzeballos) May 23, 2023

gaetz forgot you're not supposed to call it a "hostage" out loud

Good morning!

Re: the Gorman complaint, can it be disallowed on the basis of the complainant saying her poem was by Oprah?

Look we all know she meant "Black lady I saw on TV," it's not like there's that many of them.

These GOP clowns, demanding all sorts of cuts yet refusing to get rid of tax loopholes and, predictably, demanding more money for the military and law enforcement. They never operate in good faith, but the current iteration really sets the standard for shamelessness.

not sure where to post this, but some Federalist Society lawyer is trying to move in next door to me. i want to die. he clerked for Scalia

iirc the best strategy is to tackle them at the earliest opportunity.

i wonder if somehow mccarthy will lose his speakership over this. due to the hostage situation internal negotiations with the freedom caucus in january, only one Under the new House rules passed Monday, a single republican can bring a motion to vacate" his office.

perhaps not during the current hostage situation with the debt ceiling, but after the fallout

The house GOP seems happy to own this, and Biden should just let them. I feel like the lesson from doing this idiocy over and over is that it always blows up in the Republicans’ faces, so they should just let that happen. Even if it means going to default.

whoops, weird copy and paste typo in my last post

i have no idea if she knows something, but this gives me some hope

Why would anyone act like Kevin McCarthy has votes right now?

He hasn’t done the work. He doesn’t have the votes for his current proposal in the Senate. He doesn’t have the votes in the House. He doesn’t even have the votes in *his own party.*

& GOP are starting to feel that

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 24, 2023

It's funny, I have heard McCarthy boast of the 15 or whatever votes it took for him to land the speaker gig, like it was a show of tenacity or something. But people like AOC, they see it more like it, probably really is, a guy scrambling for votes without knowing the outcome, which is a pretty undisciplined thing in Washington.

Noticed one repeated line in McCarthy’s press conference pic.twitter.com/lEY2wLst8e

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 24, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Faz7z4YUsAAPcrJ.jpg

“The off-ramp here is to solve the problem, to spend less than we spent last year," McCarthy told reporters Wednesday. "That’s not that difficult. They still want to spend more. You cannot do that. No household will do that.”

great gop political message - your household is not going to have any money. and we'll make sure the government won't help you either. and also some households are going to go ahead and spend more money, like our own households

if my roof is leaking I will spend the money to fix my roof before my possessions are ruined and I have nothing of value

that's the thing these bozos always miss in a metaphor, they assume the value given by government is neutral and not essential to stabilizing the rest of the system. or they resent that it's the case and would rather things crumble

Also the rather foolish notion that dispensing money is the same thing as setting money on fire. In fact, when you spend money you actually put it into circulation so that other people can use it.

I regularly hand money to people other than myself. Then they do the same thing with it! Magical.

Yes, but if we give it to the gubmint, the gubmint will give it to someone undeserving.

...which is, paradoxically, probably better for the economy!

Poor people spend their money almost immediately. They have to pay rent and buy grocerie. So that money goes right back into the hands of the powerful.

You know who doesn't immediately circulate cash back into the economy? Rich people.

it's almost like that lapsed child tax credit helped get the economy to where it is now

Worth watching.

Wow Democrats just laughed at Marjorie Taylor Greene when she asked them to abide by decorum of the House pic.twitter.com/2jrLFyAEWg

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 24, 2023

lol

This link works: https://t.co/9PzIJkseYI

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2023

DeSantis' links have crashed all day.

of course announcing your presidential campaign on spaces was a dumb idea, but nothing will ever beat the time in 2015 when Bobby Jindal put a hidden cam in a tree to record himself telling his kids he’s running for president and they were completely underwhelmed pic.twitter.com/e3OdFJMkgB

— keyvan (@still_oppressed) May 25, 2023

really wish people would stop pretending that trump's fake twitter spaces thing was actually funny. every joke is right in the screen shot, no extra jokes added.

From that Jindal stunt to the commercial DeSantis filmed of his reading Trump's books to his kids in 2018, these GOP people are sociopaths.

I'm not sure I've ever seen the occupant of the Chair openly mocked like this before. pic.twitter.com/QJweFzzKLS

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 25, 2023

really wish people would stop pretending that trump's fake twitter spaces thing was actually funny