US Politics, December 2022: "They're now the working class party, man."

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sorry silby! you are correct

sleeve, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link

lol the NYT Is doing the stupid needle for this one race

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link

Gonna need a needle in my arm tbh

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link

I've seen enough.

Pat Buchanan wins the Senatorial race

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link

Oconee and Glynn counties, where all the vote has come in and where he's won, Walker has run below his November numbers.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link

lol The Needle has been "paused" while they "investigate" a "data issue"

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link

I’ve seen enough

*puts out eyes with NYT needle, exeunt led by servanta*

I've seen enough: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Herschel Walker (R) in the #GASEN runoff, giving Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 7, 2022

jaymc, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link

!

The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link

did not think it was gonna be called this early

frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link

Was about to post that.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link

As Wasserman cautions in the tweets after that, he doesn't make official "calls" on behalf of any news orgs, it's just the conclusion that he's drawn from looking at the data. But he's pretty good at it.

jaymc, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link

decision desk also projected warnock

(does wasserman work for decision desk?)

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link

No, Cook.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link

To my eye, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) is on track to prevail by 2-4 pts. By the standard of the 2021 runoffs, that's a Democratic blowout. #GASEN

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 7, 2022

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link

Warnock’s only 53, the timing will be good for him to make a presidential run or be a running mate in 2028 when his term expires

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link

Warnock/Fetterman ‘28

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link

Would pay, I dunno, 35 cents to see a primary debate between Warnock, Fetterman, Buttigieg, Sinema, Crist, and Sanders

عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:08 (one year ago) link

(and Harris; sorry, thought I'd included her in the list)

عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:08 (one year ago) link

Whitmernock

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link

Finally can stop posting this for two years

No one has “taken the lead” or “fallen behind.” The votes were all cast; now we’re just counting in no particular order.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 7, 2022

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link

BREAKING: Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock wins the Georgia Senate runoff, defeating Republican challenger Herschel Walker, CBS News projects. Democrats now hold a Senate majority of 51 seats. https://t.co/MpvceWK91y pic.twitter.com/RvrBw5QW1c

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 7, 2022

عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link

Kinda feel bad for Tommy Tuberville, who is now officially the dumbest motherfucker in the Senate with little chance of relinquishing that title anytime soon.

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link

if Herschel knew how to count he'd be very upset right now!!

frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link

Aw, poor Joe

Permitting reform left OUT of NDAA, as expected. Manchin/Schumer/Pelosi/Biden effort to pass energy permitting reform crashes for the second time in three months thanks to opposition from Republicans and progressives

— Joshua Siegel (@SiegelScribe) December 7, 2022

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link

Too bad the House went Republican just as the Democrats picked up the 51st Senate seat. Congressional dysfunction is still assured for two more years. But maybe we'll all finally get to see Hunter's dick pics, so there is that.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link

Herschel was traded to another state for draft picks

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link

Aimless it's really about the judiciary at this point afaict, which is no small beer

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link

I'm no political expert, but it remains perplexing how much support Trump and his menagerie of weirdoes still get from purportedly mainstream GOP figures, when it's pretty clear that running more "normal" Republicans would likely win more elections. I'm fine with them fucking it up, I just can't figure it out. Maybe they are literally afraid for their lives?

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link

Oh, not totally unrelated: I was reading about the Great 2022 GOP Cat Litter Scare, and how (I think) Joe Rogan walked back his own support for the stupid rumor. This particular article, though, mentioned that they had followed up with every single school associated with a stupid cat litter rumor, and of course they all denied it and said it was totally stupid and made up ... except one: Columbine. “The district — where Columbine High School is located — has been stocking classrooms with small amounts of cat litter since 2017, but as part of ‘go buckets’ that contain emergency supplies in case students are locked in a classroom during a shooting.” That's just the kind of dark twist this (non) story deserved.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link

o_0

عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link

I'm no political expert, but it remains perplexing how much support Trump and his menagerie of weirdoes still get from purportedly mainstream GOP figures, when it's pretty clear that running more "normal" Republicans would likely win more elections. I'm fine with them fucking it up, I just can't figure it out. Maybe they are literally afraid for their lives?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 7, 2022 7:51 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

obviously they've tried to paper over this but a lot of them really were spooked after 1/6. that said I think the big thing is that Trump is still, for some stupid reason, the most popular figure within the GOP, and he's also petty and vengeful enough to try to ruin the careers of anyone who goes after him. I mean look at what happened to Liz Cheney, or any GOP Senator who had "real concerns" abut the blatantly racist & corrupt stuff Trump was going in the White House.

frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link

Kinda feel bad for Tommy Tuberville, who is now officially the dumbest motherfucker in the Senate with little chance of relinquishing that title anytime soon.

I mean, this may just be home-state bias, but here in Tennessee we like to think Marsha Blackburn is a strong contender.

Cindy Hyde-Smith would win if she ever opened her mouth to speak, but....she's too smart for that.

DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link

this is Ron Johnson erasure

frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link

xp - Good god, the only political adjacent argument I ended up getting in over Thanksgiving was with my mom about that stupid fucking litter thing. She should know better, she's a Trump hater, doesn't watch FOX or CNN or really much cable news, votes blue consistently (at least since 2006ish), but good god. I immediately said, "come on, that's right wing bullshit so they can bitch and moan about trans kids" and she was all, "no, I know someone who knows someone with a kid at that district, it's true!". I kept pushing back and she eventually stormed off pouting, but I couldn't let that one alone.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link

There was just a long piece on the BBC by way of NPR about the coup attempt in Germany, and as soon as it was over the segue music they picked was Wilco's "Impossible Germany."

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/PxxnXoq.jpg

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link

I got into the same argument with a cousin's wife, idk where she's at politically but again it was "no my neighbor's kid says it's true!"

John Oliver had a good point about this, if there really were kids shitting in litter boxes, the whole town would know about it the same day. do these people not know how high schools work?

frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link

The only thing I can think is that my mom spends an inordinate amount of time on FB and I'm guessing someone she "trusts" posted it so "it must be true!".

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link

xpost haha, my dad related that one of my cousins said the catgirl/kitty litter in the bathroom thing was happening in the school she teaches in and I asked him for her phone number so I could call her and ask for details, and also get the name of the school so I could call them and ask if it was true. best possible way to get them to stop talking about it... ask for proof.

Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link

I know folks like to claim it's a race to the bottom of the IQ barrel between Ron Johnson and Tommy Tuberville, but Johnson was a corporate CEO and Tuberville was a college football coach, so in my mind it's no contest. Johnson might actually be smart-playing-dumb, like John Kennedy (the one from Louisiana). Tuberville, as his name suggests, is an ambulatory tuber.

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link

Was annoying hearing people complaining about how the margin of victory over Herschel Walker "wasn't enough" when the race was called, since Warnock was only up 1% at the time. Like it was bad that Warnock didn't improve his vote share.

His margin is now almost a full 3%, maybe wait til they finish counting the votes, doofuses

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link

It's time to stop talking about Herschel Walker and talk more about Raphael Warnock. Politico gets it right this morning:

“I am Georgia. I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain and its promise, of the brutality and the possibility.”

And just like that, a Democratic political star was born.

Over the past 30 months, RAPHAEL WARNOCK has won a Senate primary, got the most votes in two general elections and won two runoffs. On Tuesday night, he finally won a full six-year term in the United States Senate.

A lot has been said about how flawed a candidate that Warnock’s opponent, HERSCHEL WALKER, was. (A lot.) And so much of the conversation and coverage of Georgia’s election centered on what it would mean for the power of a current and a former president.

But Warnock’s three-point win Tuesday underscored his own talents and cemented the 53-year-old pastor as one of the nation’s most compelling and effective Democratic politicians.

His five-election streak in a changing but still conservative state should be recognized as an amazing political feat. Warnock has managed to combine a compelling biography, going from Savannah’s housing projects to MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’s pulpit, with disciplined messaging, relentless organizing and a stunning capacity for small-dollar fundraising.

He has cobbled together a Biden-esque coalition ranging from hyped-up Democrats to moderate Republicans and independents. “I want all of Georgia to know, whether you voted for me or not, that every single day I am going to keep working for you,” he said late Tuesday. “I’m proud of the bipartisan work I’ve done and I’m going to do more.”

Warnock heads back to Capitol Hill with his political stock at a new high. While Georgia’s runoff system is uniquely exhausting and historically suspect, it has redounded to Warnock’s benefit: Saturation coverage of two consecutive runoffs has made him one of the most recognizable United States senators in the country.

He had the political world’s undivided attention last night as he delivered lines like this: “[My mother] grew up in the 1950s in Waycross, Ga., picking somebody else’s cotton and somebody else’s tobacco. But tonight, she helped pick her youngest son to be a United States senator."

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link

Maybe they are literally afraid for their lives?

I've seen this argued a few times. Possibly in some shadowier corners but I've also heard the argument that a lot of GOP elected types in DC don't actually want to go back to their home states and live among their fellow dullards, and I'm more sympathetic to that. Ergo, go with the flow to stay in office.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link

the whole talk about his margin of victory is stupid, they should focus on the fact that Democrats appear to be making real gains in Georgia, which is a big deal!

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link

yeah I mean that was a solid red state my whole life, when people say "it shouldn't have been close" I'm thinking the other way!

frogbs, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link

compare to Florida, for example

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link

the whole talk about his margin of victory is stupid, they should focus on the fact that Democrats appear to be making real gains in Georgia, which is a big deal!

― Muad'Doob (Moodles),

Listen, Warnock got more than 50% of the vote. In the South! In Georgia!

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link


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