US Politics, May 2023: May 1 never happened

The human toll of a default would likely dwarf that of the Republican cuts, even if they got them in full.

I would maybe not have gone on record saying that no alternatives would even be considered aside from default or striking a bargain with the fascists.

busting in here briefly to let everybody know that i just thought of something

(which 1. has no bearing on current u.s. politix or thread discussion and 2. has doubtless been thought of elsewhere by others many times over, but)

anal sex got much more popular over the past 20 yrs, and i just now made the connection between that timeframe and the 2nd bush administration's promotion of abstinence education, which taught a generation of impressionable teenagers that the vagina is a gateway to death/hell/social ostracism

so, ironically, the anal sex explosion was caused by bush

ok have fun dissecting the american political hellscape byeeeeeee

Wild guess that everyone having access to 4K porn on demand had more to do with that.

how exactly do you know it got more popular

folks are saying, lots of people are saying so

The surge of the popularity of the song "Backdoor Man".

How do you not???

teach horny teens that p-in-v = babies&disease&death and they naturally gravitate toward the butt, it's logic, i have decided i am certain of this

https://bedbible.com/anal-sex-statistics/ - I dunno about those stats, I'm not sure 1 in 6 cis het men have partaken in pegging. I'm not sure 1 in 8 cis het men had heard of pegging in 2001.

In-Depth Research

lol

16- to 24-year-olds engaging in heterosexual anal intercourse has risen from 12.5% to 28.5% over recent decades

Search volume for anal sex videos increased by 120% from 2009 to 2015

here i picked these cherries 4 u 🍒

Analway... not sure if this good or not:

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday called on Hispanic people in Florida to vote against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who launched his 2024 White House bid the day before, because of his immigration policies.

“Hopefully Hispanics in Florida will wake up and not give him one single vote, to not vote for those who persecute migrants, those who don’t respect migrants,” López Obrador said.

Obama was President from 2009 to 2015. Maybe Yes We Can was actually the call to arms of butt stuff.

"Maybe yes we can" is actually what's being said in So Not Gonna Happen

It's a little like the new red state laws requiring you to use the restroom that matches the sex on your birth certificate. They think that they're scoring moral points by stopping trans folks from grooming or sneaking peaks or whatever evil they imagine is happening, but the reality is that they will freak out even more when people who present as the opposite sex start showing up in their restrooms as a result of those laws. By legislating what they consider morality, they'll just end up normalizing what they consider perversions.

that's a really good point I hadn't considered

those laws seem almost unenforceable as well... you gonna ask for birth certificates?

On an unrelated note, it occurs to me that the upcoming Trump/DeSantis GOP nomination battle will be the campiest in American history

It's a little like the new red state laws requiring you to use the restroom that matches the sex on your birth certificate. They think that they're scoring moral points by stopping trans folks from grooming or sneaking peaks or whatever evil they imagine is happening, but the reality is that they will freak out even more when people who present as the opposite sex start showing up in their restrooms as a result of those laws. By legislating what they consider morality, they'll just end up normalizing what they consider perversions.

This will also produce very predictable, violent results as well, and ones that I'm sure these laws' authors very much wants

all these anti-trans laws seem absolutely braindead, like they'll go apeshit about a trans woman getting 489th place in a marathon and then legislate it so that a trans man with a full beard can only wrestle women, it's almost as if they never actually think about the implications of the laws they're writing because enforcing them isn't really the point. they're just uncomfortable with trans people in general and want to make them think twice before transitioning

BREAKING: A GOP-led Texas House investigative committee that spent months looking into Attorney General Ken Paxton has recommended impeaching the fellow Republican after years of scandal. The state House could remove him soon as Friday. https://t.co/0hLgovIIzu

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2023

I'll take it, what a piece of shit

It’s frankly astonishing any time the GOP does any sort of self-policing nowadays. They wouldn’t do it if it meant letting go of a single lever of power. They must have an even bigger piece of shit lined up for the job.

honestly, I'd be surprised if they do just because he was so OTT bad, my money is on a slightly smaller piece of shit

I think in a Republican supermajority hellscape like Texas they may be more likely to police their own because they have a lock on the the machinery of power and also know there’s no way Texans will elect a Demmycrat in his place.

"Supermajority Hellscape" = Cronenberg's first political thriller

this seems like it should be illegal

Twenty-four hours after appearing with Elon Musk to announce his campaign for president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a bill into law that will shield Musk's SpaceX and other private space companies from negligence lawsuits after an explosion or a crash.

— Jason Garcia (@Jason_Garcia) May 25, 2023

the increase in anal sex was due to the “hipsters be analin’”/white couch/trucker hat ilx thread

i can't recall. is anal sex why the hat in 'fuck washing a hat' needed washing?

Nope. This board contains multitudes (of hat jokes)

I'm not sure 1 in 8 cis het men had heard of pegging in 2001.

the word was only invented in June 2001 so this seems a safe bet

doesn't someone in some American Pie-esque movie get pegged or something? Before the prevalence of the internet we all learned a lot from sitcom iirc

not-Stifler gets unexpectedly prostate-fingered at a sperm donation clinic in Road Trip (2000), because he thinks asking for assistance will result in a handie or blowjob iirc?, and is revealed to now be into it in the closing credits montage

on june 7, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is going to announce he's running for the GOP nomination for president of the united states!!!!!!!!

Make America North Dakota

Just when this thread was getting good

Burgmentum

I always thought it was called "pegging" because it seemed like the sort of sex act Peggy Hill would be into

If you knew Peggy Sue, then you'd know why I feel blue

And Buzzfeed is there with the history! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/fancyfeast/what-is-pegging-pegtok-broad-city-pegging-episode

I waybacked the stranger to find out the month tbf

It's your favorite foreign movie

in 2001, fewer than 1 in 8 cishet guys were waybacking the stranger

waybacked

another strong contender, along with punted and bobbed

Wayback the Stranger-- deleted track from Pyromania

xp

lol sic ya beat me to it

The person who proposed it to Dan Savage explained it thusly:

Boy prostitutes were sometimes called peg boys because they would sit on pegs to keep their assholes open between clients, so I suggest the word "peg." The woman would be the "pegger", the boy would be the "peggee," the act would be "pegging," and the boy would write in his personal ad: "I want to get pegged."

wait what thread is this??

US Politics, June 2023: Sit On Pegs To Keep Their Assholes Open

Pegasaurus Ron

i was gonna post (in honor of Savage) a political comment involving both pegging and santorum and couldnt bring myself to it