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

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

is he sitting in front of a wall of karens?

National Front Wall of Karens

Whoever "they" is are about to learn how petulant and frog-faced DeSantis is.

DeSantis is also "creating a grand jury to investigate mRNA shots & Big Pharma" — yeah this kind of stuff makes me think he's just not very smart. Either he believes this anti-vax bullshit, which means he's intellectually dumb, or he is so far ensconced in the right-wing bubble that he thinks things that are very important there are very important to the broader population, which means he's politically dumb. (I suspect the answer is both — he's dumb and he's dumb.)

his eyes always seem a little bloodshot, maybe from the relentless scowl

It's both, and he thinks he'll win lol

About 20-25% of the population is convinced that great crimes were committed by Fauci/pharma/etc during the Great Lockdown era and is out for revenge. But I just don't see that playing all that well on the road.

his eyes always seem a little bloodshot, maybe from the relentless scowl hooch.

What the pundit class hasn't figured out is how Trumpism without Trump isn't popular either.

Someone on that Rupar thread points out that Florida had more than double the Covid deaths of Canada

i think it has more than twice the population of canada tho

nope, 20 million vs. 37 million for Canada, about half