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

it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Griner’s celebrity was a major reason her cause was treated with outsized urgency

I can't muster any outrage at this conclusion. hundreds of thousands of people exert much greater political influence than just a few hundreds of people can hope to generate.

an athlete with no discernible intelligence value to Russia

get fucked

re: the Bloomberg opinion and the trade

http://twitter.com/Sharon_Kuruvila/status/1601224322051624960

Sorry, not sure why that didn't work. Quote from that tweet re: Bloomberg and other such reactions:

fundamentally the vast majority of people whining about this have not cared about the Merchant of Death right up to the point he could be used as a card against the government

the real reason people are bitching is because they somehow think the Black lesbian should have been left to rot in a gulag

interesting that paul whelan is being used as the foil here cause it seems like he might actually have been up to some shit, also the government has said that russia wants more for him so its not like it was a choice between him and griner

I think there's some ex-KGB hitman in a German prison, and Russia wants the U.S. to exert heavy pressure

Also the people running around calling Whelan "a Marine" tend to leave out this bit:

Whelan served with the Marine Corps Reserve from 2003-2008, much of the time as an administrative clerk in Iraq. At the end of that period, he was dishonourably discharged for larceny and other lesser offences, after being found to have tried to steal $10,000.

lol

also has a history of lying about law enforcement experience and at the time of his arrest was "director of global security and investigations for BorgWarner, an international automotive parts manufacturer based in Michigan" ie he exactly fits the profile of someone who might try to do some amateur spying

Also his family's statement was gracious and made super clear that the two cases are completely different and it was never an either or. That Bloomberg writer is a piece of shit.

read that as BongWater xpost

Majority Leader Sinema?

There’s no better way for Democrats to show their commitment to bipartisanship than by making the quirky triathlete the Senate boss.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) December 9, 2022

triathlete huh bike accident just an idea

read that as BongWater xpost

Who else will join her Chenin Blanc Caucus?

A caucus of one is no caucus at all

I saw someone tweet that Sinema either needed more attention or less attention at some earlier stages of her life, but either way it's too late now.

*chef's kiss* pic.twitter.com/Va74BB6EG9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 9, 2022

Famous people you thought were dead...

Probably mixed him up w/the Dad from ALF.

That’s Mr Willie Tanner to you!

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/kari-lake-election-lawsuit-arizona/index.html

"Defeated Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed suit in Arizona Superior Court challenging the certification of the state’s election."

Seeing that photo of Lieberman takes me back to Days of Hangdog Sanctimony Past.

Xpost so it's basically just "It's fraud because who wouldn't want to vote for me?"

Like Trump, she cannot imagine anyone not voting for her.

Benjy Sarlin tweets: Yesterday’s dumb “they won’t arrest him because of his donations” conspiracy becomes tomorrow’s “they arrested him to stop his testimony” conspiracy, just putting down a marker

Yesterday’s dumb “they won’t arrest him because of his donations” conspiracy becomes tomorrow’s “they arrested him to stop his testimony” conspiracy, just putting down a marker

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) December 13, 2022

And then the comments go on to prove him exactly immediately right.

I just realized I never eulogized the Iowa caucuses

rip, you probably made my state worse

At one Des Moines precinct tonight, an attendee brought in a concealed bottle of wine, dropped it, and it shattered everywhere pic.twitter.com/qHNMP6NLOH

— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) February 4, 2020

(I’m pretty sure that was at my precinct lol)

(I’m pretty sure that was at my precinct lol)

double posting? sounds like someone's been drinking coat wine

So the FTX guy can commit fraud, be charged and arrested and extradited in seemingly less than a month, while Trump can literally have stolen classified docs scattered around his house and the case will take years?

I don't remember FTX attempting to overthrow the govt.

it seems like years, but the FBI raid was 4 months ago and things went on hold for a good chunk of that time due to midterm elections and the special master stuff that just got thrown out

so

BREAKING: 2,319 texts from Mark Meadows now public, showing 34 Republican members of Congress texting with him about January 6, the fake electors, and declaring martial law (or "Marshall Law," sic), per Talking Points Memo.

the coup cucks clan

(sorry I hate the word cucks I just couldn't resist.)

Lots of people talk about martial law while in office. Lots of people. I'm hearing - Marshall Law, it's a thing that a lot of cabinet members discuss. Obama talked about Marsha law all the time. All the time. Many times. There is nothing unusual about that. Nothing. Maxwell Law gets talked about in elections frequently. this was not a coup. not a coup.

We were just talking about legal decisions written by Thurgood Marshall

Pretty sure they are referencing Marcia Law, which gives the US Military carte blanche to throw footballs at the noses of civilians that break curfew.

I know TPM is making a big deal about these texts, and there's probably more to come, but does any of it amount to proof of chargeable crimes or is it just general assholery?

Dying at “Maxwell Law”

enforced with silver hammers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk71h2CQ_xM

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

Moodles I don't know if asking a President to declare martial law is in itself a crime, as they could just say "well he could say no!".

but it's part of a broader conspiracy I would guess. I'm no lawyer though.

i tried calling marshall law once but he wasn’t home

i called marshall law once in his vegetable garden but he said, my name’s not law, and i said, you can say that again

so he said my name’s not law

and then he arrested me for disturbing the peas

https://i.imgflip.com/746qta.jpg

lol and now the Jan. 6 committee is just withdrawing subpoenas left and right. I mean, the targets were never going to comply, but still, they basically ran out their own shot clock.

to me, the kind of thing I would look for in texts that would constitute a more straightforward crime would be a politician discussing how they were helping to arm and provide logistics to Proud Boys in order to take over the Capitol and kidnap key members of Congress. Most of what I've seen so far looks far more vague.

RIP Kevin O'Neill
http://www.bedetheque.com/media/Planches/PlancheS_34233.jpg

remember 1987, when superheroes were so culturally dominant and being taken seriously by adults that we needed satire that vicious, black and obvious

like i keep saying, DeSantis is a sincere crank and I think it will be off-putting on a national stage. https://t.co/C0HvOSb8Xi

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) December 13, 2022