Tubby couldn't even let Election Day be about something other than himself. That announcement that he's gonna make an aannouncement was lame even for him.
Here's as sunny as I'm going to get because Congress:
A huge unqualified win was that apparent all the promoters of instituting election rigging lost; all the secretary of states and WI and PA gubernatorial candidates.
MI went all blue on the state and legislative levels. (Full disclosure: I find Whitmer at least as hot as Gabbard but neither insane nor a Putin puppet.)
And no matter how it plays out, there will always be the lulz of that Times story pushing imminent Democrat disaster based on a complete, deliberate misreading of four polls. Distant sources of joy: Every headline characterizing Trump as the election's biggest loser. Not sure I quite agree with the idea, but I love the headlines anyway.
As for DeathSantis2024, I'm for it if it would result in at least one debate between him and Trump. Can't imagine them but I just know that they'd be hugely entertaining.
The only negativity I have to spread is being peeved by Roy's disrespect for my beloved AOC, but I might be seeing something that isn't there.
You *are* seeing something that isn't there, or at least overreacting to my baseline contempt for all politicians. AOC is fine by me, and so is her exploiting the situation to shoo the geriatrics out of the party leadership.
Trump has a body language that covers the range from nasty little prepubescent bitch up to young ping bully with a near complete lack of any physical grace.
DeSantis will not play well nationwide without the stellar Republican machine in Florida behind him. He’s wooden, not terribly bright, and seems to have one or two rather creepy skeletons in his closet. Plus Trump will go after him like a pit bull. But hell yeah, insert the “let them fight” GIF here.
And yeah, outside of very red areas, the problem Republicans had on Tuesday was their messaging itself: “OK, Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class White America, yes, yes, we know gas is $5 a gallon and milk is $4.50 a gallon, and we’ll try to do something about that (although we won’t say what). But keep your eyes on the really important issues. To save the country, the white race, and the nuclear family we need to make sure your daughter can’t terminate a pregnancy she doesn’t want, even if she was raped or her life was in danger. Also, you know that one trans kid a couple of towns over who is playing high school soccer? We need to destroy that kid.” Did the majority of white voters still go Republican? Yep, sadly true. But not enough of them, because it’s increasingly apparent the GOP sucks.
Thankfully, conservatives are zealots so their movement can never fail, it can only BE failed. So Mister I’ve-Got-A-Chia-Plant-Growing-On-The-Bottom-Half-Of-My-Face himself, Matt Walsh, goes on twitter to say people need to be educated, dammit, on why impregnating 16 year old white girls should be legal and all trans people should be…I don’t even know what they’re proposing, made to wear a gold star, deported, killed? Probably one of those. Keep alienating the normies, Matt, it’s working out great.
You see the pictures where Ronnie D was partying with the seniors at his first teaching job? He probably was just making sure they were presentable. You know- well groomed.
Yes. You rattle that guy's cage and some VERY questionable stuff is going to come falling out. It won't make a difference to the True Believers -- I don't know if it's accurate, but I saw a stat that 88% of white Evangelical Christians in Georgia voted for the philandering, abortion-funding Walker over lifelong man of the cloth Warnock. But again, nation-wide, the GOP alienate the normies at their peril.
An 8mm home movie of him happily fellating the entire boy's basketball team would have no impact whatsoever on his presidential prospects. It's a new world now.
He fellated the boys on Tuesday afternoon, it's old news! Then Wednesday he issued an executive order instating the firing squad for fellators. I have it on good authority that Jesus forgave his fellating this morning, so he's got my vote, KILL ALL FELLATORS
Not seeing Florida Man as the true masculine ideal is one of the hurdles DeSantis will have to try to launch himself over in his national political bid, it's true.
If DeSantis takes the JD Vance route -- "I will debase myself in every way imaginable in my quest for power" -- and winds up publicly wrestling a gator, I will consider this all to have been worth it.
I dunno about DeSantis's national viability. I just read a tongue bath in the Times: "With Runaway Win, DeSantis’s Political Career Becomes Supercharged
The Florida governor’s victory was a result of his commanding campaign, relentless voter registration and turnout efforts, and Democrats’ utter collapse in the state."
(They didn't mention his very own gerrymandered district map -- likely illegal and in violation of Florida's constitution ha ha -- but the Times is alway short on column-inches for that sort of thing. I think the word for what they're doing here is "grooming".)
If Trump doesn't run I think this creep has a very good chance to be president in 2024, if for no other reason than I can't think of a strong Dem candidate who will run against him.
Also, maybe one day the Dems will find some fresh blood to run for governor in these southern states -- candidates not named Charlie Crist, Terry McAuliffe, or yes, Beto O'Rourke. Running an unpopular, has-been ex-Republican like Crist was practically a forfeit.
I’m not saying DeSantis *can’t* win, I’m saying I think he’ll have an uphill slog as things stand now. The GOP are going to find they can’t shrug off Trump as easily as they’d like. It’s a cult of personality, and Trump’s supporters will see him as a forsaken martyr and will regard everyone – DeSantis, McConnell, Tucker Carlson, everybody at Fox, you name it – who abandons Trump as a traitorous enemy. Without Trump’s blessing, DeSantis will struggle. With Trump’s ardent opposition? Problems.
I saw the NYT piece and it was indeed a tongue bath. I’m not holding my breath for them to give the same treatment to Whitmer, who just flipped an entire state legislature to blue.
Someone on MSNBC was saying today that most Republican primaries are winner-take-all, which means Tubby doesn't even have to get a majority, he just needs enough competition to split the non-Trump vote.
Yeah, I look at DeSantis and I see Scott Walker, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio. I don't see the heir apparent. Trump was a charismatic (to some) wild card that paid off big time for the GOP.
I am not as sanguine because I remember George W. Bush. Charisma like a Cracker Barrel peg game and no good idea ever got within five miles of him. Still won.*
I personally agree with you about Bush 43's lack of charisma, but remember compared to Gore/Kerry he was the candidate people "wanted to have a beer with." No one wants to have anything with DeSantis, including probably Mrs. DeSantis.
Tucker was doing the "I can not fail, I can only be failed" thing the other night, which makes me laugh. Buddy, your *fans* think you're a pussy. Try harder not to lose, because they will eat you alive when you can't tell them what they want to hear anymore.
I grew up in Long Island, rode the Long Island Railroad to work in NYC for a few years, rode the subways, walked the streets of Manhattan. And, yeah, Long Islanders really suck. It was Long Islanders who gave the world Alfonse D'Amato (via Ralph Caso's MegaCorruption Machine) and Pam Gellar.
Long Island, where waaaaay too many kids dream of growing up and buying the house next to mom&dad (or maybe even buying their house once they decamp for Florida.) Where you vote Republican based on the promise of massive tax cuts for OTHER people in the hope that maybe a crumb or two might roll your way. Where entertainment is looking down your nose at the neighbors while they do the same to you.
You can only think of one constituency that can't get enough of the Trump/Desantis bullshit? The more avid and important constituency is the media. The press is just *THIS FAR* from having multiple orgasms thinking about a Trump-Desantis throwdown.
It would be sooooooooo GREAT for ratings! And It would completely crowd out Sleepy Joe Biden/Brandon over the next two years--you'd not hear about him unless he died! And reporters wouldn't have to think about anything at all besides how to ingratiate themselves with the Trump camp or the Desantis camp--no thinking about policy, actual conditions in the country, nope: Nothing but horse-race, horse-race, HORSERACE for the next 18 months! And now that Musk has rescued Twitter from the woke people, the INSTANT Trump's account is reactivated, reporters won't even have to write anything--just reprint Trump's tweets!!! And just think about the endless endless Cletus Safaris to diners and dives in the heartland to find out what REAL Americans think!
America's media is going to end up hospitalized from masturbating continuously to this stuff.
100%. "More clicks, less work, more profit" has completely eclipsed actual journalism at most of the major media outlets. They see themselves more like sportscasters, except instead of commenting on a game they're providing color commentary on the horserace.
I only came here this morning to report on the hardcore kook / swivel-eyed loon clickbait pop-up I got a few times just preceding November 8: 'Would you vote for T____ a third time?' THIRD time? Y'all are so cute sometimes. It's precious, really.
I read somewhere that, among people who buy and sell mailing lists, the lists with the stupidest people are worth the most money. The list of respondents to that must be worth a fortune.
election results showed that not as many idiots are out there as projections forecast. (squeaky wheels getting too much grease). but still a depressing number. it will baffle me unto my grave how people look at the typical republican candidate, and think that's their guy! I reckon the answer is that they don't actually take a look, they just go under with the foul current.
this does give me increased hope for big gains in 2024.
"The apparent failure of straight-up white nationalist appeals to move the needle. The tendency of normal voters to hug the middle of the road can be very frustrating for liberals, but say this for Mr. and Mrs. America, they don’t seem to cotton to conservative weirdos talking like cartoon villains about the future of the white race, either."
Sadly, real racist appeals seem to have worked in Georgia and NC:actual online ads funded by Jewish Nazi's Stephen Miller's group said explicitly the Dems were supporting "anti White racism": ads darkening the skin of Warnock, Abrams, NC Justice Cheryl Beasley, and a raft of dog whistling lying ads.
76% GA White men voted for Walker: 72% White Women. These are the folks who hate the Black politicians as a power structure, and think it cool to put a broken brained ex Bulldog in as a compliant boy who will do as told.
The 8% of Black voters who did, the Killer Mikes and Uncle Ruckuses, are defiantly perverse. (It was 12% men, 6% women, some of whom are looking for Child Support.)
One of my daughter's housemates has a Korean mom and idiot GA Redneck cop for dad: Bailey is an Army vet in a decent tech job. and when me met, dropped a hideous pun, so I loved him immensely.
Daughter told me he asked "uuhh is your dad ok with miscegenation? "
We cracked up, me blowing coffee out my nose.
I told her to tell him I'm for it:"please misegenate away: the gene pool for most of rural GA is stagnant."
But it doesn't take so many of us to tip the balance, does it? Fully three fourths of the white folks in Georgia voted Republican, and it still wasn't enough to win!
More than a little bit of "foobaw" nostalgia involved. (I'm convinced that if in 1980 UGA had gone 8-3 and lost the Bluebonnet Bowl or some such none of this would be happening.)
For the first time in several years, Minnesota went all blue on Tuesday, which for some reason has largely been ignored in the national press. All four constitutional statewide offices, the gov and lege are now in control of all 10,000+ lakes. The closest race was for the AG’s spot, where Keith Ellison, the former congressman who was the first Muslim to hold a congressional seat and who is African-American, held on by a margin just great enough to avoid a mandatory recount. He was attacked with barely-disguised racist ads showing Black carjackers and saying Ellison “endorsed” them. Okay, not even barely disguised.
The saavy local media types in MN predicted Ellison would lose, never acknowledging that maybe the racist vitriol might have dented the polls. But once again, the Twin Cities rescued the state and blocked the mouthbreathers from taking over. The capture of the lege was completely unforeseen, and I haven’t read or heard any analysis of why this happened. The metro area couldn’t have been responsible for this. Maybe the GOP candidates for the MM Senate were too wacko even for the outstate semi-normies.
Anyway, I feel good about things here. Especially after some comments on blogs elsewhere had casually written off MN as inevitably going red.
Fantastic news! Combine that with the Dems in Michigan taking both houses of their legislature. And then, meanwhile, in between Michigan and Minnesota... [sighs]
Come on in, I'll help with the Fifth Column. And my long-running resentment about ownership of the UP is somewhat diminished, at least for the moment it's in better hands than ours.
"But to be honest, most conservatives aren’t really suffering over this."
Wise words. They're perfectly suited for the role of opposition party, lots of poo-flinging, nobody expects you to do anything. But at the same time, boy do they hate losing (who doesn't?). So, you know, they're conflicted. Maybe that's what they love about Trump, he gives them the opportunity to be permanently on the outs, because he doesn't win.
"And they want company" is a sentence FRAGMENT, which is even MORE powerful. The only thing still more powerful is single words separated by periods, he's holding that one back for when the shit REALLY goes down.
Yes! I neglected to mention the sentence fragment. Josh Marshall writes almost exclusively in them, but unintentionally and in paragraph form. In the hands of a Twitter maestro, they’re devastating.
Our Fair State passed Medicaid expansion via initiative, and simultaneously re-elected Rodeo Barbie who fought tooth and nail against it — and also against repealing the food tax *until* the campaign started and it was popular, whereupon she did a 180° and the Republican zombies pretended not to notice or didn’t care.
So they’ll slow-walk the Medicaid expansion the same way they’ve done nothing to implement medical cannabis, which the voters approved two years ago. Great system we’ve got here!
Hey at least you have the citizen initiative, the only Progressive-era reform Wisconsin got was Recall, and to say that hasn't worked out so good for us would be putting it mildly.
SD was the first state to have Initiative, Referendum, and Recall (all three) in its constitution. Fat lot of good it does us. Though we did raise the minimum wage a bit a few years back via initiative.
It's been encouraging to watch two ideas - Medicaid expansion and Nonpartisan redistricting - advance haltingly through the states by citizen initiative. Every time impeded or neutered when possible by Republican legislators, but it's hard to hold back ideas whose time has come.
I'm in Iowa and it's getting uglier by the day. We are sending 89 yr old saggy sack of petrified shit Chuck Grassley back to the Senate, of course. Iowa will no longer have any Democratic representation at the Federal level. Rep Cindy Axne was obviously going to be defeated by a 43 yr old combat veteran who is so dedicated to his anti-abortion beliefs he would allow no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother. Iowans threw out Democrat Tom Miller, the very nice and very friendly AG we've had for 38 years in favor of a 46yr old moon-faced lunatic who worked for Steve King. Her claim to fame seems to be using her last name, Bird, in a junior high school level commercial giving Biden "the bird". I cringed so hard I nearly fell down. I'm sure the President is in the Oval Office, head in hands, moaning "dear Lord, not Brenna Bird." Iowans reelected hag CovidKim Reynolds, of course. She nearly lapped the very nice black woman who ran against her. Iowans also amended the Constitution to protect guns!
Another terrific column. And as far as I'm concerned, AOC can't say enough bad things about the awfulness of NY State's Dem party apparatus. The re-districting fiasco played right into the hands of GOP judges and was a royal fuck-up. Just ask Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler, who had to compete against each other thanks to the legislature's ineptitude. (Not particularly sorry to see Sean Patrick Maloney get the boot upstate, since he had a tendency to endorse Republicans over Democrats, but he faced an onslaught of negative ads funded by millions from national GOP PACs so we can't totally blame Dems for this one.)
Tubby couldn't even let Election Day be about something other than himself. That announcement that he's gonna make an aannouncement was lame even for him.
Here's as sunny as I'm going to get because Congress:
A huge unqualified win was that apparent all the promoters of instituting election rigging lost; all the secretary of states and WI and PA gubernatorial candidates.
MI went all blue on the state and legislative levels. (Full disclosure: I find Whitmer at least as hot as Gabbard but neither insane nor a Putin puppet.)
And no matter how it plays out, there will always be the lulz of that Times story pushing imminent Democrat disaster based on a complete, deliberate misreading of four polls. Distant sources of joy: Every headline characterizing Trump as the election's biggest loser. Not sure I quite agree with the idea, but I love the headlines anyway.
As for DeathSantis2024, I'm for it if it would result in at least one debate between him and Trump. Can't imagine them but I just know that they'd be hugely entertaining.
The only negativity I have to spread is being peeved by Roy's disrespect for my beloved AOC, but I might be seeing something that isn't there.
You *are* seeing something that isn't there, or at least overreacting to my baseline contempt for all politicians. AOC is fine by me, and so is her exploiting the situation to shoo the geriatrics out of the party leadership.
Didn’t know how to take the comrade reference; whether it was sarcastic, ironic or what.
So since I’m wrong on that point, my post was 💯 ☀️!
Trump vs. DeSantis debate: Dueling Accordions!
If you haven’t ever, Google Trump accordion. Tubby’s hand gestures look like he’s playing the squeezebox; DeSantis has been adopting TFG’s mannerisms.
Trump has a body language that covers the range from nasty little prepubescent bitch up to young ping bully with a near complete lack of any physical grace.
Scary shit to see.
DeSantis will not play well nationwide without the stellar Republican machine in Florida behind him. He’s wooden, not terribly bright, and seems to have one or two rather creepy skeletons in his closet. Plus Trump will go after him like a pit bull. But hell yeah, insert the “let them fight” GIF here.
And yeah, outside of very red areas, the problem Republicans had on Tuesday was their messaging itself: “OK, Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class White America, yes, yes, we know gas is $5 a gallon and milk is $4.50 a gallon, and we’ll try to do something about that (although we won’t say what). But keep your eyes on the really important issues. To save the country, the white race, and the nuclear family we need to make sure your daughter can’t terminate a pregnancy she doesn’t want, even if she was raped or her life was in danger. Also, you know that one trans kid a couple of towns over who is playing high school soccer? We need to destroy that kid.” Did the majority of white voters still go Republican? Yep, sadly true. But not enough of them, because it’s increasingly apparent the GOP sucks.
Thankfully, conservatives are zealots so their movement can never fail, it can only BE failed. So Mister I’ve-Got-A-Chia-Plant-Growing-On-The-Bottom-Half-Of-My-Face himself, Matt Walsh, goes on twitter to say people need to be educated, dammit, on why impregnating 16 year old white girls should be legal and all trans people should be…I don’t even know what they’re proposing, made to wear a gold star, deported, killed? Probably one of those. Keep alienating the normies, Matt, it’s working out great.
You see the pictures where Ronnie D was partying with the seniors at his first teaching job? He probably was just making sure they were presentable. You know- well groomed.
Yes. You rattle that guy's cage and some VERY questionable stuff is going to come falling out. It won't make a difference to the True Believers -- I don't know if it's accurate, but I saw a stat that 88% of white Evangelical Christians in Georgia voted for the philandering, abortion-funding Walker over lifelong man of the cloth Warnock. But again, nation-wide, the GOP alienate the normies at their peril.
An 8mm home movie of him happily fellating the entire boy's basketball team would have no impact whatsoever on his presidential prospects. It's a new world now.
He fellated the boys on Tuesday afternoon, it's old news! Then Wednesday he issued an executive order instating the firing squad for fellators. I have it on good authority that Jesus forgave his fellating this morning, so he's got my vote, KILL ALL FELLATORS
I don't understand how you can't see the massive appeal of "Make America Florida."
Not seeing Florida Man as the true masculine ideal is one of the hurdles DeSantis will have to try to launch himself over in his national political bid, it's true.
If/when he runs, Dems should never say his name, just use "Florida Man" instead.
Florida Man, better keep your head
Don't forget what your banned books said
In his mind, DeSantis thinks he rocked those white boots nigh unto the Mt. Olympus of the manly ideal of manly manhood.
If DeSantis takes the JD Vance route -- "I will debase myself in every way imaginable in my quest for power" -- and winds up publicly wrestling a gator, I will consider this all to have been worth it.
only if the gator wins
Gator/Hurricane '24
Dressed as a sumo wrestler?
They were as manly and commanding as the white shoes Pee Wee Herman wore on the bar when dancing to Tequila.
Tequila!
I dunno about DeSantis's national viability. I just read a tongue bath in the Times: "With Runaway Win, DeSantis’s Political Career Becomes Supercharged
The Florida governor’s victory was a result of his commanding campaign, relentless voter registration and turnout efforts, and Democrats’ utter collapse in the state."
(They didn't mention his very own gerrymandered district map -- likely illegal and in violation of Florida's constitution ha ha -- but the Times is alway short on column-inches for that sort of thing. I think the word for what they're doing here is "grooming".)
If Trump doesn't run I think this creep has a very good chance to be president in 2024, if for no other reason than I can't think of a strong Dem candidate who will run against him.
Also, maybe one day the Dems will find some fresh blood to run for governor in these southern states -- candidates not named Charlie Crist, Terry McAuliffe, or yes, Beto O'Rourke. Running an unpopular, has-been ex-Republican like Crist was practically a forfeit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/ron-desantis-victory-florida.html
I’m not saying DeSantis *can’t* win, I’m saying I think he’ll have an uphill slog as things stand now. The GOP are going to find they can’t shrug off Trump as easily as they’d like. It’s a cult of personality, and Trump’s supporters will see him as a forsaken martyr and will regard everyone – DeSantis, McConnell, Tucker Carlson, everybody at Fox, you name it – who abandons Trump as a traitorous enemy. Without Trump’s blessing, DeSantis will struggle. With Trump’s ardent opposition? Problems.
I saw the NYT piece and it was indeed a tongue bath. I’m not holding my breath for them to give the same treatment to Whitmer, who just flipped an entire state legislature to blue.
Someone on MSNBC was saying today that most Republican primaries are winner-take-all, which means Tubby doesn't even have to get a majority, he just needs enough competition to split the non-Trump vote.
Scott Walker 2024.
Yeah, I look at DeSantis and I see Scott Walker, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio. I don't see the heir apparent. Trump was a charismatic (to some) wild card that paid off big time for the GOP.
I am not as sanguine because I remember George W. Bush. Charisma like a Cracker Barrel peg game and no good idea ever got within five miles of him. Still won.*
I personally agree with you about Bush 43's lack of charisma, but remember compared to Gore/Kerry he was the candidate people "wanted to have a beer with." No one wants to have anything with DeSantis, including probably Mrs. DeSantis.
LOL
"Witmer's Divisiveness Threatens Biden's '24 Run"
The Fourteen Words As The National Republican Party Platform, A Continuing Series
Tucker was doing the "I can not fail, I can only be failed" thing the other night, which makes me laugh. Buddy, your *fans* think you're a pussy. Try harder not to lose, because they will eat you alive when you can't tell them what they want to hear anymore.
Guessing you're not a regular viewer, and tuned in for the Schadenfreude?
I didn't see the period so I read it straight
through as " jerked off to Zendaya Bridge and tunnel bitches." I had no idea what
"Zendaya Bridge and tunnel bitches." were but, man- did I ever like the way that sounds!
I'm a suburban white guy( over 6o!) And I can attest - Sentient dogshit is an apt description. ( Not of me. I'm OK. My neighbors though...)
I grew up in Long Island, rode the Long Island Railroad to work in NYC for a few years, rode the subways, walked the streets of Manhattan. And, yeah, Long Islanders really suck. It was Long Islanders who gave the world Alfonse D'Amato (via Ralph Caso's MegaCorruption Machine) and Pam Gellar.
Long Island, where waaaaay too many kids dream of growing up and buying the house next to mom&dad (or maybe even buying their house once they decamp for Florida.) Where you vote Republican based on the promise of massive tax cuts for OTHER people in the hope that maybe a crumb or two might roll your way. Where entertainment is looking down your nose at the neighbors while they do the same to you.
Lived about 15 years on LI and no objections to this.
Don't forget the Buttafucos.
Like I said, those slurs absolutely do not apply to you. You're a prince.
No, I'm a frog who hopped out of that pond the minute I was able to. And I never looked back.
"Hey, take that offa the bridge and down into the tunnel, nobody wants to see that."
You can only think of one constituency that can't get enough of the Trump/Desantis bullshit? The more avid and important constituency is the media. The press is just *THIS FAR* from having multiple orgasms thinking about a Trump-Desantis throwdown.
It would be sooooooooo GREAT for ratings! And It would completely crowd out Sleepy Joe Biden/Brandon over the next two years--you'd not hear about him unless he died! And reporters wouldn't have to think about anything at all besides how to ingratiate themselves with the Trump camp or the Desantis camp--no thinking about policy, actual conditions in the country, nope: Nothing but horse-race, horse-race, HORSERACE for the next 18 months! And now that Musk has rescued Twitter from the woke people, the INSTANT Trump's account is reactivated, reporters won't even have to write anything--just reprint Trump's tweets!!! And just think about the endless endless Cletus Safaris to diners and dives in the heartland to find out what REAL Americans think!
America's media is going to end up hospitalized from masturbating continuously to this stuff.
The biggest reality TV show ever.
"Oh my sweet Lord, this is worst case of lotion burns I've seen since my residency at the clinic next door to the adult bookshop!"
😆🤣😂🤣😆
I'd ask Les Moonves whether this is bad for America but good for CBS, but he's a little busy at the moment.
100%. "More clicks, less work, more profit" has completely eclipsed actual journalism at most of the major media outlets. They see themselves more like sportscasters, except instead of commenting on a game they're providing color commentary on the horserace.
"The more avid and important constituency is the media." media, Republican operatives -- same diff.
Pretty much.
This. "Michelle Wolf" is how you pronounce "Casandra" in the 21st century.
Throw a Kari Lake - Elise Stefanik Veep throwdown into the mix, and watch the lady fireworks! Real Housewives of the Oval!
I only came here this morning to report on the hardcore kook / swivel-eyed loon clickbait pop-up I got a few times just preceding November 8: 'Would you vote for T____ a third time?' THIRD time? Y'all are so cute sometimes. It's precious, really.
I read somewhere that, among people who buy and sell mailing lists, the lists with the stupidest people are worth the most money. The list of respondents to that must be worth a fortune.
Buddy you should see my inbox! It's like a town meeting in hell.
I'm old. I had to go and look up zendaya.
election results showed that not as many idiots are out there as projections forecast. (squeaky wheels getting too much grease). but still a depressing number. it will baffle me unto my grave how people look at the typical republican candidate, and think that's their guy! I reckon the answer is that they don't actually take a look, they just go under with the foul current.
this does give me increased hope for big gains in 2024.
"The apparent failure of straight-up white nationalist appeals to move the needle. The tendency of normal voters to hug the middle of the road can be very frustrating for liberals, but say this for Mr. and Mrs. America, they don’t seem to cotton to conservative weirdos talking like cartoon villains about the future of the white race, either."
Sadly, real racist appeals seem to have worked in Georgia and NC:actual online ads funded by Jewish Nazi's Stephen Miller's group said explicitly the Dems were supporting "anti White racism": ads darkening the skin of Warnock, Abrams, NC Justice Cheryl Beasley, and a raft of dog whistling lying ads.
76% GA White men voted for Walker: 72% White Women. These are the folks who hate the Black politicians as a power structure, and think it cool to put a broken brained ex Bulldog in as a compliant boy who will do as told.
The 8% of Black voters who did, the Killer Mikes and Uncle Ruckuses, are defiantly perverse. (It was 12% men, 6% women, some of whom are looking for Child Support.)
Let's hear it for the Race Traitors, the roughly one-quarter of white folks who didn't vote for the White People's Party.
One of my daughter's housemates has a Korean mom and idiot GA Redneck cop for dad: Bailey is an Army vet in a decent tech job. and when me met, dropped a hideous pun, so I loved him immensely.
Daughter told me he asked "uuhh is your dad ok with miscegenation? "
We cracked up, me blowing coffee out my nose.
I told her to tell him I'm for it:"please misegenate away: the gene pool for most of rural GA is stagnant."
Yeah, we get a cookie or something. How did so few of us ever learn that we're all in this together?
But it doesn't take so many of us to tip the balance, does it? Fully three fourths of the white folks in Georgia voted Republican, and it still wasn't enough to win!
More than a little bit of "foobaw" nostalgia involved. (I'm convinced that if in 1980 UGA had gone 8-3 and lost the Bluebonnet Bowl or some such none of this would be happening.)
For the first time in several years, Minnesota went all blue on Tuesday, which for some reason has largely been ignored in the national press. All four constitutional statewide offices, the gov and lege are now in control of all 10,000+ lakes. The closest race was for the AG’s spot, where Keith Ellison, the former congressman who was the first Muslim to hold a congressional seat and who is African-American, held on by a margin just great enough to avoid a mandatory recount. He was attacked with barely-disguised racist ads showing Black carjackers and saying Ellison “endorsed” them. Okay, not even barely disguised.
The saavy local media types in MN predicted Ellison would lose, never acknowledging that maybe the racist vitriol might have dented the polls. But once again, the Twin Cities rescued the state and blocked the mouthbreathers from taking over. The capture of the lege was completely unforeseen, and I haven’t read or heard any analysis of why this happened. The metro area couldn’t have been responsible for this. Maybe the GOP candidates for the MM Senate were too wacko even for the outstate semi-normies.
Anyway, I feel good about things here. Especially after some comments on blogs elsewhere had casually written off MN as inevitably going red.
Fantastic news! Combine that with the Dems in Michigan taking both houses of their legislature. And then, meanwhile, in between Michigan and Minnesota... [sighs]
To be fair, WI is distorted by severe partisan gerrymandering. But Ron Johnson? C’mon, Cheeseheads!
Yeah, that one really hurts.
They need to gang up and teach those cheesedicks what's what.
Come on in, I'll help with the Fifth Column. And my long-running resentment about ownership of the UP is somewhat diminished, at least for the moment it's in better hands than ours.
"But to be honest, most conservatives aren’t really suffering over this."
Wise words. They're perfectly suited for the role of opposition party, lots of poo-flinging, nobody expects you to do anything. But at the same time, boy do they hate losing (who doesn't?). So, you know, they're conflicted. Maybe that's what they love about Trump, he gives them the opportunity to be permanently on the outs, because he doesn't win.
TheSkillPredator has really mastered the Pretentious Online Voice some people use on Twitter to make their pronouncements sound deep and important.
Conclude with single sentences.
It shows how insightful you are.
Think about that.
"And they want company" is a sentence FRAGMENT, which is even MORE powerful. The only thing still more powerful is single words separated by periods, he's holding that one back for when the shit REALLY goes down.
Yes! I neglected to mention the sentence fragment. Josh Marshall writes almost exclusively in them, but unintentionally and in paragraph form. In the hands of a Twitter maestro, they’re devastating.
So catchy.
And so powerful.
Think about that.
Think. About. That.
Sorry if I knocked you off your chair with the power of my wordsmithing, these things shouldn't be used lightly.
Let that sink in.
I hate, Hate, HATE when people use “Let that sink in.”
Our Fair State passed Medicaid expansion via initiative, and simultaneously re-elected Rodeo Barbie who fought tooth and nail against it — and also against repealing the food tax *until* the campaign started and it was popular, whereupon she did a 180° and the Republican zombies pretended not to notice or didn’t care.
So they’ll slow-walk the Medicaid expansion the same way they’ve done nothing to implement medical cannabis, which the voters approved two years ago. Great system we’ve got here!
Hey at least you have the citizen initiative, the only Progressive-era reform Wisconsin got was Recall, and to say that hasn't worked out so good for us would be putting it mildly.
SD was the first state to have Initiative, Referendum, and Recall (all three) in its constitution. Fat lot of good it does us. Though we did raise the minimum wage a bit a few years back via initiative.
It's been encouraging to watch two ideas - Medicaid expansion and Nonpartisan redistricting - advance haltingly through the states by citizen initiative. Every time impeded or neutered when possible by Republican legislators, but it's hard to hold back ideas whose time has come.
I'm in Iowa and it's getting uglier by the day. We are sending 89 yr old saggy sack of petrified shit Chuck Grassley back to the Senate, of course. Iowa will no longer have any Democratic representation at the Federal level. Rep Cindy Axne was obviously going to be defeated by a 43 yr old combat veteran who is so dedicated to his anti-abortion beliefs he would allow no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother. Iowans threw out Democrat Tom Miller, the very nice and very friendly AG we've had for 38 years in favor of a 46yr old moon-faced lunatic who worked for Steve King. Her claim to fame seems to be using her last name, Bird, in a junior high school level commercial giving Biden "the bird". I cringed so hard I nearly fell down. I'm sure the President is in the Oval Office, head in hands, moaning "dear Lord, not Brenna Bird." Iowans reelected hag CovidKim Reynolds, of course. She nearly lapped the very nice black woman who ran against her. Iowans also amended the Constitution to protect guns!
Our friends in Cedar Falls call Reynolds “The Kim Reaper.”
Yep! She is definitely the Kim Reaper.
Shame on Jim Acosta -- "Trump is LIVID!" is such a clickbait spam mail tag.
I had him briefly mixed up with Robert Costa, "A month ago you're on book tour with Bob Woodward and now THIS?"
Another terrific column. And as far as I'm concerned, AOC can't say enough bad things about the awfulness of NY State's Dem party apparatus. The re-districting fiasco played right into the hands of GOP judges and was a royal fuck-up. Just ask Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler, who had to compete against each other thanks to the legislature's ineptitude. (Not particularly sorry to see Sean Patrick Maloney get the boot upstate, since he had a tendency to endorse Republicans over Democrats, but he faced an onslaught of negative ads funded by millions from national GOP PACs so we can't totally blame Dems for this one.)
More Tubby sketches!
More Tubby sketches!