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

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!

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!

compare to Florida, for example

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!

Georgia as a "solid red state" is not really accurate though

I saw someone observe a few weeks ago that Florida and Georgia have essentially swapped places.

Alllllmost got it:

In the aftermath of Republican Herschel Walker’s loss in the Georgia Senate runoff, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) offered a blunt message to GOP Senate leaders on Wednesday: “You don’t belong in our state running races anymore.”

Greene, an ally of former president Donald Trump who has generated many controversies, offered her autopsy on the race during an appearance on the podcast of former Trump White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon. Besides pointing the finger at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), she also blamed Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R) of neighboring South Carolina for Walker’s loss.

“This is especially for the campaign consultants with a 30,000-feet view, where they look down on Georgia and arrogantly think they know how to win races in our state,” Greene said. “This is for Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and the rest of the Republican senators. You guys are the reasons why we are losing Republican races all over the country.”

“This is your third loss in my home state,” Greene said, apparently referring to the pair of Senate losses in the state two years ago that made Democrats the majority in the Senate.

Greene continued: “So let me inform you on behalf of Georgia: This is your third strike, and you’re out. You don’t belong in our state running key races anymore. No thank you. We don’t want your help.”

Greene also took aim at the Walker campaign for not using her more frequently as a surrogate. She said the campaign had only asked her two or three times to campaign with Walker when he was appearing in her district.

“They only asked me a couple of time in my own district, which I find extremely insulting,” she said. “You guys are the reason we are losing.”

"They only asked me a couple of times! It's almost as if people hated me almost as much!"

I wonder how much is sorting: bright, ambitious young people go to Atlanta for work, and elderly bigots retire to Florida.

thanks MTG, maybe you should show us how to win a Georgia senate race next

if she'd run against Warnock she probably would have won so

I’m not so sure. A statewide race would be very different for her. Her district is gerrymandered to be so die hard Republican they’d vote for anyone with an “R” after their name.

Yeah, no, she'd be an even worse candidate than Walker.

yeah, I don't think she'd do that great, I'm highly skeptical that her appeal really could extend much further than her little district

She would have lost.

We're again underestimating how seriously powerful a candidate Warnock is.

He's the pastor of the Mothership!

Wonder what happened to him pic.twitter.com/RGdYYehCPY

— Jessy Han (@hjessy_) December 7, 2022

Sen. Warnock didn’t win the runoff last night simply because of Herschel Walker’s flaws. He set out to energize liberal Georgians and swing voters with a far different approach than he used in the 2020 campaign. #gapol #gasen https://t.co/jfVwEHvn9w

— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) December 7, 2022

Johnson was a corporate CEO and Tuberville was a college football coach

Being a Power 5 footbaw coach is a far more intellectually demanding job than ‘CEO of your brother in law’s company.’

at the same time, there's a good chance that that is literally all he knows how to do, because every indication is that man is otherwise a moron.

Being a Power 5 footbaw coach is about as intellectually narrowing a job as you could ever find. Those guys can talk all day about the minutiae of whether to insert your nickel package on second down, but couldn't tell you that yogurt is made out of milk.

Play calling is like 5% of a coach’s job at that level - that’s why he has 74 assistant coaches and grad students. It’s a CEO-esque job, but with greater pressure and higher stakes than 99% of CEOs.

Tuberville is a moron but the idea that ‘CEO’/nepotism baby is indicative of any kind of higher functioning… not so much

she'd be an even worse candidate than Walker.

she is a moron through and through but she isn't schizophrenic AND brain damaged so I have a hard time believing she'd actually be a worse candidate.

less brain damage does not equal more votes

Particularly if you are off-putting to swing voters and Dems would crawl across broken glass to vote against you

She's actively repellent, which would hurt her with some voters.

xxxp She would get fewer votes than did Walker, who for all of his horrendous flaws is still a football hero in Georgia.

yup - despite his obvious flaws, he was once really good at something people care deeply about, while MTG is just a shrill troll with no redeeming qualities

I love that she's now directing her shrill trolling at McConnell and Graham. I guess that's a redeeming quality of sorts.

hmm why are we using the word "shrill"? 🤔

A 14 year old female child that lives in Texas came out last year as bisexual. Tonight she attempted suicide. This is what the hateful laws against the LGBTQ+ do to children. This child is Ted Cruz’s daughter.

— Thee Rosetta (@rosiegirl1957) December 7, 2022

https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/07/ted-cruzs-bi-daughter-ok-after-rushed-hospital-rep-says

i can't imagine what that child has gone through

ty caek, yeah plz don't do that (use "shrill" as a female pejorative)

No story I've read this week has made me more nauseated.

I fucking hate Ted Cruz, but we have no idea what happened or why. Having Ted Cruz as your father alone is a pretty shitty burden to bear.

you love to see it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/07/kushner-democrats-congressional-probe-bailout/

Glad they're on that now with just a few weeks to go before congress changes leadership. We should see results ... never.

Duly noted re: "shrill," and it's not really the word I want anyway. Whatever the adjective is for blathering with no intelligence to back it up, and wanting to be seen as a tough person or bully. Like Jim Jordan.

Maybe not but annoying Jared will be good fun and that’s enough for me.

Glad they're on that now with just a few weeks to go before congress changes leadership. We should see results ... never.

I've got to assume even your average very rich person has a whole staff just to deal with legal bullshit, though I hope he is indeed annoyed beyond just having to pay more lawyers.

At the very least I want these people irritable and exasperated 24/7

I want them to feel like we all feel, plus the potential for jail time, no matter how remote.

xp Would "jabbering" work?

Or hectoring?

I suggest a neologism.

marjoring

lol

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Biden swaps Viktor Bout (Russian arms dealer; I believe there's a Nicolas Cage movie about him) for Brittney Griner.

About time

Finally