Some pundits seem mildly surprised that Mike Pence is stumping for Kemp in the Georgia GOP primary. That race is a proxy for Trump’s grudge match against Kemp, and Trump’s enmity toward Kemp is a proxy for Trump’s grudge match against the reality that he, Trump, is a losing loser who lost.
But is Pence’s defiance of Tangerine Baal in Georgia really surprising? Jonathan Martin in yesterday’s Times:
After four years of service bordering on subservience, the increasingly emboldened Mr. Pence is seeking to reintroduce himself to Republican voters ahead of a potential presidential bid by setting himself apart from what many in the G.O.P. see as the worst impulses of Mr. Trump. He’s among a small group in his party considering a run in 2024 no matter what Mr. Trump decides.
BORDERING on subservience? Pence steamed over that border and occupied the entire country of Subservientstan! He was the most obsequious toady in the history of servility!
And I think that’s why Pence is absolutely compelled to run again, even though Trump Republicans were baying for his blood on January 6 and it’s clear the party prefers loud-mouthed lib-owning authoritarians rather than the prim, Bible-humping variety. For Pence, it’s just too much to have endured that pride-swallowing nightmare for naught.
Pence simply cannot accept the fact that 4.5 years of starting every sentence with “Under President Trump’s exceptional leadership,” that all the ceaseless ass-kissing he lavished on a gross orange pervert was undone by one day’s adherence to the law. The smooth brain beneath the neatly clipped, fly-attracting white hair just cannot compute that fact. Pence is in denial.
Anyway, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving lickspittle, and I hope the forthcoming series of rejections causes severe psychological distress. Fuck that guy.
Also, there are some interesting primary races today. It looks like Georgia Republicans really will put a domestic-violence prone serial liar up against Senator Warnock. Will Hice prevail over Raffensperger, perhaps setting the stage for overturning fair elections in the future? Could be!
Will terrible Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey avoid a runoff? Maybe. Will Mo Brooks overcome Trump’s un-endorsement to prevail for the U.S. Senate race? That would be funny. Will felonious TX AG Ken Paxton finally put the desiccated Bush dynasty out of its misery?
The only race I’m personally invested in is Cuellar vs. Cisneros in the TX 28th. The anti-choice, possibly corrupt as fuck Cuellar is favored to win, but I hope Cisneros kicks his ass.
Which races are you watching? Open thread!
I posted this downstairs, but you might be interested, BC.
Some good news this morning in Florida. The free speech for me and not for thee law has been ruled unconstitutional by the Appeals Court.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/05/23/appeals-court-florida-law-on-social-media-unconstitutional/
“ ST. PETERSBURG — A Florida law intended to punish social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, dealing a major victory to companies who had been accused by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis of discriminating against conservative thought.
A three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously concluded that it was overreach for DeSantis and the Republican-led Florida Legislature to tell the social media companies how to conduct their work under the Constitution’s free speech guarantee.
Put simply, with minor exceptions, the government can’t tell a private person or entity what to say or how to say it,” said Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, in the opinion. “We hold that it is substantially likely that social media companies — even the biggest ones — are private actors whose rights the First Amendment protects.”
The ruling upholds a similar decision by a Florida federal district judge on the law, which was signed by DeSantis in 2021. It was part of an overall conservative effort to portray social media companies as generally liberal in outlook and hostile to ideas outside of that viewpoint, especially from the political right.“
Interesting that it was a Trump-appointed judge who ruled against DeSantis! That law and many others included in the culture war slate over the last two years were performative legislation, IMO. DeSantis and the wingnut statehouse want the Fox News credit for trying, and they won’t suffer for having been shot down by the courts. Florida taxpayers will suffer since we are on the hook for the legal costs of defending DeSantis/statehouse’s shoddy legislation. But they don’t give a shit about that.
In the GOP primaries I have been hoping the full MAGAs win. My theory is they will be easier to beat in the Fall.
Amazing how someone trying to kill you can free you up for new ventures.
“BORDERING on subservience? Pence steamed over that border and
occupied the entire country of Subservientstan! He was the most
obsequious toady in the history of servility!”
As toadying as a toad that has just been appointed Regius Professor of
Toadying at Oxford.
Subservientstan. X-D Well played, ma’am.
I’m still enjoying the aftermath of PA.
@brendancalling — has the GOP figured out who won yet?
I see Glenn Greenwald has decided that Doug J’s identity needs to be known.
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1529096768692035585
“it’s just too much to have endured that pride-swallowing nightmare for naught.”
I think you are giving him way too much credit. He was always a subservient lick spittle to the higher ups in the X-tian right. He’s just going back to his roots after being exiled to a hedonistic hellscape for an eternity serving under the right’s the Anti-Christ and Whore of Babylon. It was the price he was expected to pay to get a shot at the WH.
I’m so glad we have a site for today’s elections. I missed it a lot last week. I can’t believe R’s in Georgia are going to put Herschel Walker on the ballot just because he’s black and a celebrity (you know that’s why). He’s a walking disaster as far as being a candidate is concerned, but evidently the MAGA’s don’t care about that at all.
Soprano@ he would not debate the other candidates during the primary, and it’s doubtful that he’ll debate Warnock.
@Old School: What scum. I really hope he gets his comeuppance some day.
Old School May 24, 2022 at 10:57 AM
It’s true about the scammy PAC. “Accountability Now”. Greenwald and Hamsher.
Greenwald had this employee (?) a woman, and she came here to fight about it for like 48 hours straight but I didn’t know Greenwald threatened to sue DougJ.
It was just the financials from the PAC- what they listed on disclosure forms and we were saying it looked hinky (well, I was, and it did)- but Greenwald went insane.
@Old School: Someday I hope someone gets to say “I see Anonymous has decided that Greenwald’s bank statements and selected emails and texts need to be known.”
Soprano2 May 24, 2022 at 11:04 AM
The GOP candidate for governor in PA wants an abortion ban with no exception for the life of the mother.
This is apparently fine with the anti-abortion “movement”. This is their candidate- a man who says if it’s a choice between a baby and a mother the mother must die.
Not a peep out of the huge, paid anti-abortion groups. They’re backing this.
They have tricked and misled the public at every stage since that opinion leaked. Their candidates promote these insane laws and the paid anti-abortion lobbyists appear on television the same day denying the laws are the goal. Absolute untrustworthy liars, every one of them.
Jennifer Rubin at WaPo made the case long ago that Pence lacks the personality to be the GOP nominee in 2024. In other words, he’s duller than dishwater and can’t work up a crowd of neo-Nazis like the raging Trump and sneering DeSantis.
Mike in NC May 24, 2022 at 11:25 AM
Pence wasn’t even popular in Indiana. I think that’s why Trump picked him. Trump rescued him from losing so Pence owed him.
The mayoral race in Athen should be interesting. The dem is a really good guy. A mayor who is out picking up trash on weekend mornings! The pukes are running a Hispanic woman who has no idea how the government here runs. She has stated that she will do all this shhit in the schools and the schools are not run by the mayor and city! On the flip side my commissioner decided it was good idea to say that UGA football players are “disproportionately murders and rapists” and football is a horrible waste. I know that plenty of people here agree but, guess what, that is not the kind of shit you say right before an election.
My husband and I did the crossover thing and voted for Raffensberger in the Republican primary last Friday. Raffensberger’s no bargain, but he’s a thousand times better than Jody Hice. The last poll I saw had them running neck and neck, but there were a whole lot of undecideds.
Yeah, Pence assumed that being Trump’s VP would mean it was his turn next, and that would render 4+ years of suckupitude* all worthwhile. But at least on the GOP side, all the old rules are out the window. Now it’s just whether you’re the one to boldly take Trumpism to new depths, and Pence wouldn’t have been that one, regardless of January 6th.
*If that’s not a word, well dammit, it *should* be!
2016:
“Pence’s job approval rating is underwater at 40 percent, according to a May poll, and even among Republicans only six-in-10 supported his re-election.”
Pence was going to lose his re-elect in Indiana. It was the culture war issues. He was too far Right for Indiana – a religious nut who focused exclusively on far Right culture goals.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-mike-pence-vice-president-225387
@Kay: “but Greenwald went insane”
He was already there, he was just being more demonstrative about it.
AliceBlue. We considered it but the local political wiz’s we know said no to so we didn’t. Crazy ass ballot, what did you do with those insane rep questions?
Good lord, Calamity Jane and the Hamshers of the Apocalypse! Or as somebody posted in the twitter thread “That’s a name I haven’t heard of in a long time.”
One of the most odious, wannabe grifters on the left from back in the day who went back into obscurity. Too bad Glem couldn’t have suffered the same fate.
@Kay: “Pence wasn’t even popular in Indiana. I think that’s why Trump picked him.”
I reckon it went both ways: like you say, his political career in Indiana was dead in the water, and that’s why he was willing to be available.
My recollection is that at that point in the campaign, nobody was at all interested in being Trump’s running mate, I think everyone was still afraid that would be the kiss of death on their political careers. Pence’s was already dead; what did he have to lose?
Ivey is absolutely terrible. But the other candidates are considerably worse. I had the misfortune of seeing their ads on a recent trip. Total nut jobs. Ivey is just pretending to be a nut job. In reality she’s just dumb.
Just another demonstration of the first rule of Republicans: no matter how bad they are, they can always get worse. And they will.
@Raven Oh I had a lot of fun with those dumbass questions. I just checked the opposite of what the “right” answer was supposed to be.
Nineteen governor candidates on my CA ballot, so that’s fun. Newsom is one of the nineteen and it seems like we just voted for him. Oh, yeah, we did.
Senator Padilla appears twice: once for the full term primary, runoff held in November, and the second for the balance of the uncompleted current term. i.e., he was appointed by the governor to take the Harris seat but here we are a year later, electing him to that seat. Naturally, there’s also an election for the seat he vacated to take the other seat.
I need a nap.
lowtechcyclist May 24, 2022 at 11:36 AM
I think he’s crazy thin skinned and vindictive. DougJ’s stuff is funny. It’s a good parody. Hence, he must be OBLITERATED.
I loathe the whole “anti-woke” gang on the internet. This shit is all they do. They spend their days on all this petty, stupid shit.
One would think now that they have beaten back “the woke mob” we’d start to see all those brilliant insights and original work the woke mob was supressing, but instead all we get are 5000 essays on the woke mob.
They’re a bore. As it turns out the woke mob wasn’t supressing anything edgy or original. They all sound like bitchy, bitter middle aged people moaning about “kids these days”.
I’ll take any random 20 year old over any of them. At least the work would be new.
I think reasonable people can disagree on whether it was right to out the woman behind Libs of TikTok. She gleefully supplies powerful elected officials and media figures with content that supposedly justifies their punching down on vulnerable communities. That makes her a terrible person, IMO. Did she deserve to lose anonymity? I’m not shedding a tear over it, but it’s a legit question.
Comparing that formerly anonymous person with DougJ is nuts. He punches UP against a powerful institution, and while he has amassed a huge following because he’s hilarious, he hardly drives the narrative for the Democratic Party. Sometimes I wish he did! But he doesn’t.
I want a GOP civil war. This seems as good a way as any for it to kick off.
@Alice Blue, Rather than vote in the republican primary, I sat out. Likely there will be a runoff between Hice and Raffensperger, I’ll vote then.
“Nineteen governor candidates on my CA ballot, so that’s fun. Newsom is one of the nineteen and it seems like we just voted for him. Oh, yeah, we did.”
With a bit of cursory research it appears that quite a few folks running for statewide office in CA as Dems are not, in fact, Dems. I guess that was predictable.
This is one of the few elections I can remember where I’m voting for all incumbents.
My main concerns about a GOP vs GQP civil war are the blast radius and the collateral damage.
@Betty Cracker: I think punching up v. punching down is a key factor, and as you say, our DougJ is punching UP in his role as NYT Pitchbot. (And damn, he’s good!)
If, when the big guns had picked up her stuff, the Libs of TikTok lady had had an epiphany and realized she hadn’t meant to expose ordinary people to the wrath of Fox News et al., and quit doing what she was doing, then she’d have deserved to stay anonymous.
But now that Fox News and the rest of the wingnut media are using her stuff to punch down, and she’s perfectly OK with that, then yeah, she deserves to be as well known as the people are who are getting hurt by her stuff. If she has a problem with that, she can get off the Web and take up macrame, and we’ll forget all about her.
The Shiatgibbon didn’t pick Pence. He agreed to having him on the ticket, but before that moment he was probably barely aware that Pence existed.
@ Old School:
What a dick!
@trollhattan 11:44AM
Yes! Our ballot was four pages long! Reading some of the conservative (wing nut) the candidates summaries’ about themselves was like reading a QAnon post. Some read like parodies.
In our county, most of the local races and even our state assembly seat had no Democratic challengers. It was very disappointing. That what we get out here in the wilds. I guess
We dropped our ballots into the drop box and BallotTrax sent us the thumbs up two days later.
Voting in California seems like it just might be easier than in the red states. Sigh.
Just saw this:
“The Justice Department will require its agents and law enforcement officers to intervene and render aid if they see another officer use excessive force against a detainee”
So, in other words, we as a nation understand and acknowledge that most cops are, put nicely, unnecessarily violent, with some being flat-out murderous, and the solution is that the police are now expected to be policing the police. This is fucking ludicrous. Our system of “law enforcement” is broken, we need some new ideas.
FL guv will for sure appeal to the Supremes. As William Jennings Bryan observed, “You cannot crucify Ron DeSantis on a cross of wokeness,” or something like that.
@Scout211:
My ballot didn’t include candidates’ mission statements (or whatever they’re called), I had to find them elsewhere. But everything else about my red state ballot was the same as yours. I mailed mine in, they acknowledged receiving it, then they sent another email letting me know it was ready to be counted.
The Moar You Know May 24, 2022 at 12:02 PM
Just saw this:
“The Justice Department will require its agents and law enforcement officers to intervene and render aid if they see another officer use excessive force against a detainee”
It doesn’t say whether the aid is rendered to the officer or the detainee, though.
AliceBlue idiots!
@Betty Cracker — Not only does he not drive narrative for Democrats, he doesn’t even single out individual reporters by name, but the institution. Maggie Haberman is, I am sure, well-protected by her employer, but it would still be dubious to unleash invective on her personally, Gamergate style. And it’s no mystery that most of the individual targets end up being female.
And really, everyone should realize that anonymity is not guaranteed and you should write what you write accordingly.
Kay:
” a man who says if it’s a choice between a baby and a mother the mother must die.”
I assume that was a (figurative) typo, unless 32 fertilized cells (so to speak) are now considered a “baby.” [Yeah, I know that certain groups want blastocysts to be considered “a baby.”]
@lowtechcyclist — By all accounts, the Libs of TikTok lady was trying very hard to break into the con-media celebrity ranks; she tried different bits until she hit on L of TT, and she was elated when Rogan made her famous. She redoubled efforts to find fresh victims for the anti-woke crowd to persecute, from Abbott to DeSantis to Carlson to Rufo.
BTW, I heard a clip of Rogan the other day, and there’s absolutely no difference between him and Limbaugh. None. I don’t know what I expected. Maybe a little more edginess? Something to justify the massive following? But nah — same old GOP gasbag boilerplate.
SFAW: I assume that was a (figurative) typo, unless 32 fertilized cells (so to speak) are now considered a “baby.”
That’s just the thing- in the weeks since the leaked draft opinion, I have seen and heard MANY anti-abortion activists use that parameter, and NOT ONCE has a media interviewer pushed back on it. The debate has been ceded to the right, and it won’t be long before “personhood” is conferred to the sparkle in Daddy’s eye…
Soprano2
The right does not want a functional government. They can’t implement their policy of no government intervention in the theft of the country if there is an actual functional government. And theft is the only way they actually have to get the non governing government they want. It’s why they support the worst president ever or at least anyone like him. They also understand, barely, that his openness about their racism, and theft of the country, while agreeable to them, is just a bit too open about their goals. They are between a rather large rock and a rather hard place, trying to fuck over an entire country. They used to hide their goal a bit better, but as general life has got better through democratic policies for the majority, their risk of losing all their hopes and dreams of being in 1000% control of everything and taking the country back over 250 yrs worth of halting progress of that they have been attempting to fuck over for that entire time, they are desperate. They have an old rich fuck who is backing their desperate ploy and has been for going on 30 yrs in 3 countries and millions of people, with faux news and their counterparts and they are getting even more desperate. Hence SFB, a model citizen for them.
@debbie
You made me laugh. Thanks!
@Geoduck May 24, 2022 at 11:57 AM: Wasn’t the Pence VP nod a Paul Manafort production, to the point of delaying the campaign plane to cinch it with extra Pence face time?
Betty Cracker May 24, 2022 at 12:24 PM
“BTW, I heard a clip of Rogan the other day, and there’s absolutely no
difference between him and Limbaugh. None.”
Joe Rogan Retweeted
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
@TulsiGabbard·
Apr 29
Every dictatorship has a propaganda arm—a “Ministry of Truth.” The Biden Administration has now formally joined the ranks of such dictatorships with their creation of the so-called “Disinformation Governance Board.”
Bruce K
“My main concerns about a GOP vs GQP civil war are the blast radius and the collateral damage.”
Yep.
“increasingly emboldened Mr. Pence”
How can anyone tell the difference?
Betty Cracker May 24, 2022 at 12:24 PM
@lowtechcyclist — By all accounts, the Libs of TikTok lady was trying very hard to break into the con-media celebrity ranks; she tried different bits until she hit on L of TT, and she was elated when Rogan made her famous. She redoubled efforts to find fresh victims for the anti-woke crowd to persecute, from Abbott to DeSantis to Carlson to Rufo.”
This is why I think the anti-woke crowd are dumb. Stupid people who think they’re smart people.
There are 3.5 million teachers in the US. The innumerate dopes of anti-wokeism thought “Libs of Tik Tok” was a representative sample of US teachers. They don’t understand how numbers work.
I could do the same for far Right teachers. I could carefully cull a sample of far Right US teachers and start a panic that Right wingers are indoctrinating children. But I know that 37 teachers who are on Tik Tok is not a valid measure of anything.
@Kay – wow that’s some crazy shit. Tulsi is a horrible human being. Ministry of Truth indeed with no irony given the shit that right wing media sites are doing.
@Kay — when Tucker Carlson did his Monday show after the GRT-inspired massacre in Buffalo, Putin’s aloha stooge was one of his guests, along with Greenwald.
Kay
“Absolute untrustworthy liars, every one of them.”
If they told the actual truth they’d likely get maybe 25% of the vote. They have to lie, they are the snake oil salesmen of this century. Lying is the entire basis of their political party. If they told the truth, they are afraid they’d be stoned and run out of town with no pockets to stuff their cash in. OK and some of them are also just certifiably fucking crazy.
Did y’all see that story in the Daily Beast yesterday about Trump’s morbid fear of being pied? (Not pied as in pie filter but taking a pie in the face.) Apparently Bill Gates got hit with a pie, and ever since, Trump has lived in fear of it and used to surround himself with goons to ensure he’d never suffer the same fate prior to acquiring USSS protection. Among all his other insufferable qualities, Trump is just a fucking weirdo.
@ Betty C:
Would the FSM ever be that kind to us?
Betty Cracker May 24, 2022 at 12:45 PM
I wish they’d just admit they’re on the Right. Just standard internet-
immersed middle aged Republicans who say all the things those types of Republicans say.
Maybe Joe Rogan’s listeners don’t know they could get all his content free from Ted Cruz
It’s true across the board.
Bill Maher
@billmaher
Apr 29
.@ElonMusk
tweeted: “I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in.” It’s all fun and games Elon until Hunter Biden gets his head stuck in the vending machine.
See, Maher’s edgy hip “joke” there is Hunter Biden is a drug addict- ha, ha! How clever!
It’s circa 1993. Irritable, middle aged former hipsters who want nothing more than for things to stay exactly the same as they were. He’s not even funny.
Not the best week for Madison Cawthorn. After getting the boot from his district he’s under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. Maybe he’ll take a job as a dishwasher at Mar-A-Lago.
Also under investigation is Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas. Not sure what he did, but we recall he was a White House doctor nicknamed “Candy Man” for handing out drugs without a second thought. He failed upwards after retiring and moving to Texas.
Mariupol, before and after:
https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1529011278769004544
@Mike in NC: I wonder how often the police will let him go after driving erratically at high speeds without a driver’s license once he’s no longer a Congressman.
@Mike in NC: Rep. Ronny Jackson paid for a country club membership out of campaign funds.
Gin & Tonic: There aren’t punishments severe enough for this kind of thing.
Glimmers of grassroots awakening by rejecting and ejecting the corporate incrementalist in Congress. https://crooksandliars.com/2022/05/wa-state-dem-has-one-best-campaign-ads
@Betty Cracker: Well, there was his testimony where apparently he believes he could be killed if he is hit by fruit. Considering his diet, maybe it’s his kryptonite.
@Soprano2
“”I can’t believe R’s in Georgia are going to put Herschel Walker on the ballot just because he’s black and a celebrity (you know that’s why)””
The Republicans have loved nominating celebrities my whole life (I was born under a celebrity Republican president uggh). This is why I found it so galling that they tried to put Obama down by callling him a celebrity.
It’s not that Obama was a celebrity. We celebrate good public servants.
Ah, the first person to make me ask “How are we doing on restoring the Pie Filter?” If you have to ask “Is it me?”, it isn’t you.
And the edit’s working?!? Be still my heart . . .
@Redshift: I saw the fear of fruit thing too, and pineapples and bananas were specifically named! Pineapples I can understand — they’re spikey and heavy; they could conceivably put a hurting on someone. But bananas? Maybe if an attacker hurled an unripe BUNCH at you, that would hurt. Individually, they are nothing to fear. 🙂
PS: Now that I think of it, didn’t Trump babble about rioters throwing SOUP at police? He’s just got this bizarre phobia about being struck by foodstuff.
Again, nothing to do with anything, but I love this dancing paired with the music. I don’t care if I’m too old for it:
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1528549066564587523?s=20&t=DFxuhhfr7ho3jFvjKAqciA
@Betty Cracker May 24, 2022 at 2:11 PM: There’s a Monty Python tie-in here, I know it.
@Kay – I continue to believe that Maher’s mad because young people don’t think the jokes he told 20 years ago are funny anymore, so he’s forced to get new material. He says he hasn’t changed, Democrats have, which is probably somewhat true – he’s always been a more libertarian than liberal asshole. On the last show I listened to he had a woman who is in sports journalism named Chloe Maxmim who kept saying “abortion needs limits” and then described what the situation is now! Paul Begala pointed that out a several times. He was the only one on there who was making sense. Begala said they’re going after gay marriage next, and Maher asked how he knew that, and he said it was because he has a law degree and read Alito’s opinion and can see that’s what they want to do. Maher dismissed that with a wave of his hand. Geez…..
side note: I just recently spun up a wordpress site – damn, that shit ain’t easy – big kudos to Watergirl to maintaining this site. I think I spent ten days getting it going – now, that’s because I’m very stubborn and wanted to use a specific set of technologies (eg not docker) where there isn’t a lot of information on.
I did not crossover and voted in the R primary here in Georgia although I have family that did. If I did, I would have voted against Jody Hice, my one-time pastor and that lying, simpering, traitorous, bigoted, weaselly snake in the grass.
I don’t know who will win for sure on the R side except for Herschel Walker. He’s college football royalty and just like in Alabama, that means a lot more than it has any right to. He’s going to win the primary, and I hope he goes down in flames. Not just to keep the seat in the D column but also to show in this one instance, Georgia knows better than Alabama on what should count towards qualifications for public office.
Joe Falco and now that fucking moron Broun is running again.
@BettyCracker
“Trump’s morbid fear of being pied?”
Just glitter bomb the motherfucker and get it over with. He’ll never get it out of whatever is masquerading as his hair.
@Joe Falco: I grew up steeped in SEC football culture too, but it still amazes me that Walker could waltz back into Georgia (after living elsewhere for ages) and win a US Senate seat based on his 1980s glory in football. Especially since he’s been caught in major lies about his background and is a serial domestic abuser! It’s just nuts.
Soprano2 May 24, 2022 at 2:17 PM
Doing the hard work as usual. So the “sports journalist” doesn’t know Roe allows states to ban abortions in the 3rd trimester with a health/life of the mother exception.
She just sashayed out there to express her opinion without even spending 5 minutes looking?
Real high quality stuff. Glad he has a national debate show. Poor Paul Begala. Surrounded by stupid people who never shut up.
Intereresting:
Eric Blair🔥
@protecttruth_
· 5h
The Australian left/center-left beat the Murdoch press and the conservative party. Yes! Nice from @rgloveroz.
We should take a political lesson from this too:
Australian Labor ran *against* Murdoch. They said “Murdoch.”
That works!
I don’t know if it would work here but it’s interesting they went directly after Murdoch media with voters- told them WHY Murdoch lies to them.
Soprano2 May 24, 2022 at 2:17 PM
It’s a real “tell” to me when people get all huffy at the notion the far Right court could reverse same sex marriage.
They don’t give a shit what happens to women – they put us in this “unimportant” category that of course THEY will never be in.
In my meaner moments I wish they would reverse, just to punish those people. “Do you get it NOW, dope? You weren’t a special protected group after all”
What is the likelihood that Cisneros will retain the seat? Who I root for in that race depends on that answer.
I am stuck in moderation.
@Kay; She honestly seemed to believe that in most states there were few or no restrictions on abortion! Begala kept telling her “You’re describing what already exists”. She should have shut up after the 2nd or 3rd time, since it should have been obvious to her that she knew nothing about the topic at all. And yes, Begala sounded like an intelligent person surrounded by morons. I think it was funny that on this show Maher didn’t bring up anything about “wokeness”, probably because he knew Begala would push back strongly against that bullshit. He never has anyone on anymore who challenges him on crap like that.
Betty Cracker
Conservatives like money, and winning so they can get away easier with stealing more money. That power of winning in politics also makes it harder for folks like us to just exist, which makes their pastime of making money the easy and dishonest way much more productive and harder to find them guilty of.
I got a notice this mornings email that UPS has a major service interruption in Dallas. Wonder if this is related in any way to the BJ interruption….
@Ruckus
Yeah, there’s a community college in Michigan that went down when we did and is still down. Coincidence?
@Raven
I know! It’s hilarious and pathetic although not quite as hilarious and pathetic as Vernon Jones’ chances in that race.
@Betty Cracker
It is what it is. It look like some of that Teflon rubbed off of Donny on to Herschel as much as the latter kisses the former’s ass.
I still find it amazing that we have not one, but two black Republicans that packed their bags for ostensibly greener pastures in this Georgia election cycle.
@The Moar You Know
“This is one of the few elections I can remember where I’m voting for all incumbents.”
Mostly. (Although Newsom’s only virtue is that the alternatives are worse.)
The exception is my (D) Assembly member. I’m remembering the election where she first won that seat. While demonstrating a devotion to truth and honesty worthy of Donald Trump. (Yes, really that bad.) Even a couple of years of some RWNJ would be a price worth paying to dump her.
@schrodingers cat Cuellar has the FBI raid hanging over him. Per 538 its a D+7 lean. The GOPr is a Trumper whackjob. I think Cisneros is the better bet of two not great candidates(Cisneros is probably too liberal for it.) Comes down to Hispanics and abortion.
@Betty Cracker 2:11
My guess is that Trump’s fear of bananas is that he’ll slip on one and fall embarassingly on his a$$ like a character in a bugs bunny cartoon.
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Oooh an EDIT button! WaterGirl has been working overtime. Cole should give her a raise.
Bill Maher says he hasn’t changed, Democrats have. Isn’t that part of being liberal? When new information arrives, different analysis or understandings, we adapt and re-think and try news stuff?
If Maher is proud that he isn’t changing, then he’s saying he’s fundamentally a conservative.