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

the endless house investigation into this

Already on Twitter there's a bunch of "I can't believe Senile Joe Biden gave away this guy I just heard of today for some pot-smoking black lesbian!"

re: cruz' daughter, what evidence was there to backup the claim that she is bisexual? this is a minor and it seems a bit weird to be digging into reasons for this episode if they aren't very public already.

Didn't she say she was on Twitter?

It's in the story.

Cruz’s eldest daughter shared on TikTok early this year that she was bisexual.

https://media.giphy.com/media/SEHij8ehkGYQE/giphy.gif

In the video, Caroline Cruz said she disagrees with most of her father's far right views, and even went so far as to accuse her parents of digitally altering a photo from the family's Christmas card to make her clothing look more conservative, LGBTQNation.com reported.

then there's this:

There’s a special hell being a teenage girl when your Dad is a famous (Republican) politician and you’re in middle/high school -and I did it before social media and before journalists would target minors and report on them.

Leave the entire Cruz family alone & just send prayers.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) December 7, 2022

Politicians going after the teenage daughters of their rivals?

]John McCain at a fundraising dinner in Arizona 1998. “Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?” he told a handful of big Republican funders. “Because Janet Reno is her father.”

That maverick, John McCain.

the endless house investigation into this

Already on Twitter there's a bunch of "I can't believe Senile Joe Biden gave away this guy I just heard of today for some pot-smoking black lesbian!"

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, December 8, 2022 9:22 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lotta people attacking him for not also getting Paul Whelan out, though its not really clear if that was ever on the table

says something about Putin that they one they’d want back for a harmless pot-possessing us citizen is the international arms dealer known as the merchant of death.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/respect-for-marriage-act-house-vote-marriage-equality/

The House on Thursday approved legislation that provides federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, sending the landmark bill to President Biden's desk for his signature and capping a decades-long shift in Americans' attitudes toward gay marriage.

Called the Respect for Marriage Act, the measure won bipartisan support in the Democratic-led House, after the lower chamber passed this summer a version of the bill with backing from 47 Republicans. The House vote to give final approval to the legislation was 258 to 169, with one Republican voting "present." Thirty-nine GOP lawmakers joined all Democrats in supporting the bill.

Mr. Biden pledged to sign the bill "promptly and proudly" once it passed the House.

The measure is likely to be one of the last significant legislative accomplishments from the Democratic House, and one of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's final acts as speaker, before the party turns over control of the lower chamber to Republicans with the start of the new Congress in January.

Trump admin did nothing to get Whelan out either, and, true or not, Russia is holding him because they accuse him of being a spy, which likely makes them more reluctant to let him go (Griener not accused of espionage). that said holding Whelan seems cruel and ridiculous and I doubt he's a spy.

"...and the Golden Globe goes to..."

Holy shit. A Republican just started crying on the floor of Congress begging them to vote against protecting marriage equality. pic.twitter.com/8l2n2epuQP

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) December 8, 2022

What a hateful little gnome.

Hartzler opposes same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships.[39] She also opposes banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.[40] In 2019, Hartzler expressed her strong opposition to the Equality Act.[41] She has written an op-ed rejecting it.[42][43] She also opposes allowing transgender individuals to serve in the military.[40][44]

In 2019, Hartzler sponsored an event by proponents of conversion therapy in order to provide congressional office space, for which she was rebuked by Representative Ted Lieu, whose office was next to the event, and who sponsored legislation to ban conversion therapy.[45][46][44]

In March 2022, Hartzler's Twitter account was briefly suspended after tweeting, "Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women", in reference to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.[47]

Odds on her being closeted?

Have you seen her fabulous red leather jacket?

Odds on her being closeted?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, December 8, 2022 11:39 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The only way to avoid getting gay married is to ban gay marriage, afaict.

Something something rammed down our throats

You have to admit, since the Obergefell decision America has become 12.5% more Satanic

California come get yr gal plz

Feinstein says about Democrats having 51 seats “it's terrific. And they can work if it's used, but there's a danger in it as well. And that's being too aggressive.”

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) December 7, 2022

This is Hartzler's nephew, btw:

Right now: We're talking to Andrew Hartzler, nephew of Missouri congresswoman Vicky Hartzler. Andrew and others are suing over a controversial exemption to federal civil rights law that allows religious colleges to discriminate against gay students. https://t.co/RUfUoL2eSa

— St. Louis on the Air (@STLonAir) June 15, 2022

Yes, there he is.

Because of course

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Florida lawmaker indicted on fraud charges

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has been indicted on charges of defrauding a federal coronavirus loan program for small businesses, officials said Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/health-florida-business-tallahassee-government-and-politics-908a66654d725730cd85c80f715b2eba

how many years is he getting for attempting to impersonate Kid with that haircut

To The Extreme

He looks super Nazi too. Like a boyband Proud Boy.

Tearing Up Mein Kampf

this feels like a better strategy than going after brain damaged ken bone types

PA Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro's campaign sent out a memo outlining how it ran up the margins last month.

Key to the strategy? An effort to target Trump voters who believed Biden was legitimately elected pic.twitter.com/9z4kInAj51

— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) December 8, 2022

Who are these non-ideological Trump voters, like what jobs and lifestyles do they have

genuinely do not know who those 15% are, what their experience of the world is like

I feel like there would be a lot of 50-something corporate accountants in that group.

"Brittney Griner is coming home. Will she stand for the anthem now?"

Fox News gotta Fox News.

Gotta respect those bombs bursting in air.

The extremely-thinly-veiled racism/sexism/homophobia in the right-wing sneering about her is super gross.

The veil is more like a sword.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/kyrsten-sinema-leaves-democratic-party/index.html

No surprise, she needed a pirouette. But she wants to keep her committee assignmetns.

In a 45-minute interview, the first-term senator told POLITICO that she will not caucus with Republicans and suggested that she intends to vote the same way she has for four years in the Senate. “Nothing will change about my values or my behavior,” she said.

Also she takes herself out of a nomination fight in 2024 and puts AZ Dems in the position of either supporting her or running a candidate and potentially splitting the vote and electing a Republican

And Dems can continue hating her, so win-win

If I had one wish for this week, it would be for the world to (somehow) not react to Kristen Sinema as she continues to be herself, because - like so many narcissists in positions of power and influence - the attention and talk is what she craves.

Also she takes herself out of a nomination fight in 2024 and puts AZ Dems in the position of either supporting her or running a candidate and potentially splitting the vote and electing a Republican

Seems to me the trick would be for Schumer to find a lobbyist buddy willing to pay her enough to retire, and then run the best possible Democrat (do we have any more astronauts?) for her seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain#/media/File:Anne_C._McClain_portrait.jpg

Meh, nevermind

Ruben Gallego seems formidable.

She's not going to caucus with Republicans; her abortion and judge/justice votes would make her anathema anyway. This is a 2024 flex.

Some partisans believe they own this Senate seat.  

They don’t.  

This Senate seat doesn’t belong to Democratic or Republican bosses in Washington.  

It doesn’t belong to one party or the other, and it doesn’t belong to me.  

It belongs to Arizona, which is far too special a place to be defined by extreme partisans and ideologues.

fuckin' partisans. they think just because you ran as a Democrat and received all the advantages that the party gave you, that they can expect you to stay in that party for a whole term.

lots of "extreme partisans and ideologues" on both sides amirite