117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

[psych]

Was Wright a longshot, though? Dump just endorses whoever licked his tiny mushroom last (except Lindsey LOL), and they may have 2% name rec.

No, she wasn’t a long-shot. If anything, she was the front-runner, and was leading after the first round of voting, where the Democratic candidate missed out by like 1% at beating now Rep. Ellzey for the second spot in the runoff. Trump cut a couple videos for her and made a robocall or two, so he definitely was balls deep in this race.

 

[psych]

Sinema is now losing endorsements over her announcement about Infrastructure. Sounds like Grant Woods (former AZ AG) has all but disavowed her.

Pundits are now saying the House Dems will not accept the bipartisan deal if there is no Reconciliation deal later. She might have completely blown the whole thing up in her quest to not get re-elected. Honestly one of us should move there and run for Senate as a Dem we would trounce her. Her polling is putrid.

edit: This about sums it up...

AOC already calling her a-s out on Twitter. Sinema and Portman’s bill, on the other hand, sails through its first cloture vote, with Mitch McConnell on board for the opening round.
If Sinema sinks this entire ship, she sincerely might as well run as a Republican in 2024.

Edit: should say second cloture vote. Portman is apparently leading the charge on this completely underfunded, janky piece of sh-t bill, so I award Sinema no credit. Fuck her.

 

[Handyman]

Tlaib ripped her too. She is dead. She is polling in the low 40s before this and if she killed Infrastructure she will poll lower than Trump.

 

[rufus]

Why would you wear body armor to a tourist rally?

https://mobile.twitter.com/LauraWalkerKC/status/1420555101396258816

And where and from whom did he receive these warnings about potential violence happening?

 

[Kepler]

Wow.

 

[psych]

Wow.

That’s what having conservative white supremacists in the Democratic Party will do for bipartisanship. Keep black people down, we’ll keep working together.

Keep an eye out on next Tuesday’s special elections in Ohio. In OH-15, Trump has endorsed, and is all-in, on coal executive Mike Carey, while the “Establishment” is behind State Rep. Jeff LaRe. It’ll be another test of Trump’s muscle post-presidency. In this instance, Carey does appear to be more of an underdog than Wright was in TX.
The OH-11 special election to replace now-HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge is between progressive Nina Turner and “centrist” Shontel Brown. Turner has the backing of AOC and Sanders, while Clyburn and others are behind Brown. Turner has been ahead in polls most of the way, but Brown is closing.

 

[Kepler]

That’s what having conservative white supremacists in the Democratic Party will do for bipartisanship. Keep black people down, we’ll keep working together.

Yeah, I did think it is basically a map of the migration of racists from the Democratic party to their natural home among the other authoritarians on the Right.

It's a visual documentation of us cleansing ourselves of Nazis. So, good. Now let's just get rid of the red dots entirely.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Frankly, I think that map represents the rise of far right-wing radio/irritainment, which is now being even further exacerbated by social media.

 

[Kepler]

Frankly, I think that map represents the rise of far right-wing radio/irritainment, which is now being even further exacerbated by social media.

That certainly made the Right break off from reality and go up their own anus into the Eagle's Nest. But we can't forget just what fascist garbage the Dixiecrats were. They were only ever along for the pork.

 

[SonofSouthie]

• President Donald Trump's political action committee, the Make America Great Again Action PAC, bought $348,081 worth of advertising Tuesday to support Trump-backed candidate Mike Carey in a GOP primary in Ohio's 15th District, according to forms filed with the Federal Election Commission.
• The large, last-minute ad purchase, the group's first in the 2022 cycle, was made the same day that another Trump backed House candidate, Susan Wright, lost in a special election in Texas 6th District.
• The former president has staked his entire political brand on his status as a kingmaker in the Republican party. A second loss for a Trump-backed candidate in as many weeks would put a serious dent in Trump's aura of invincibility.

 

[Handyman]

Not as long as the current elected GOPers still kiss his ring. They are too far gone to walk it back now...

 

[Kepler]

• The former president has staked his entire political brand on his status as a kingmaker in the Republican party. A second loss for a Trump-backed candidate in as many weeks would put a serious dent in Trump's aura of invincibility.

People still want to believe this. How many times in 2016 did we hear "this will kill him"?

Dump is invincible with his base because they are too insulated, stupid, vicious, and damaged to process any dissonant information. Everybody with that disease will die with (and/or of) it. There is no cure.

 

[aparch]

Frankly, I think that map represents the rise of far right-wing radio/irritainment, which is now being even further exacerbated by social media.

Same, but it's interesting to see the Dixie-crats move to the GOP...

 

[The Sicatoka]

Same, but it's interesting to see the Dixie-crats move to the GOP...

The Dixie-crat argument would be they haven't moved positions on issues and the D have become dominated by coastal liberals nee progressives nee socialists nee communists. But D motion away would require R motion toward the Dixie-crats, and I don't believe that happened, quite the opposite.

 

[Kepler]

• President Donald Trump's

Let's refer to... it... as "Disgraced Ex-President." For short, Dep Dump.

 

[Handyman]

says something that doesn't make sense about Political Philosophy and the nature of the Political Spectrum (so Kep doesn't have to read it)

So is your argument that the Dixie-crats left the party because the coasts took the Party extreme Left? Even leaving aside that there is about as big a gap between the Dems and Communism as there is between all the Aleutian Islands you seem to be forgetting something kinda big that happened that made them leave. I will give you a hint...it started with Truman and kicked into high gear under Kennedy and Johnson.

Pretending the Dixie-crats left for any reason other than "We dont want no rights for dem Darkies" is the type of revisionist history I expect out of Texas textbooks or Faux News. Please tell me I read your post wrong.

 

[Kepler]

Every piece of evidence is that the Dixiecrats moved to the GOP because the Democrats started passing civil rights rules, first within their own party (the convention floor fights with Dixiecrats went all the way back to the 40s) and then for legislation in general in the 60s.

We purged our Afrikaners and the GOP welcomed them with open arms and open legs because they fit right in.

 

[rufus]

• President Donald Trump's political action committee, the Make America Great Again Action PAC, bought $348,081 worth of advertising Tuesday to support Trump-backed candidate Mike Carey in a GOP primary in Ohio's 15th District, according to forms filed with the Federal Election Commission.
• The large, last-minute ad purchase, the group's first in the 2022 cycle, was made the same day that another Trump backed House candidate, Susan Wright, lost in a special election in Texas 6th District.
• The former president has staked his entire political brand on his status as a kingmaker in the Republican party. A second loss for a Trump-backed candidate in as many weeks would put a serious dent in Trump's aura of invincibility.

Only $350,000?

Not a million or two?

I guess it makes sense, spend that money on other people and its less you have to funnel into your own businesses.

 

[rufus]

So is your argument that the Dixie-crats left the party because the coasts took the Party extreme Left? Even leaving aside that there is about as big a gap between the Dems and Communism as there is between all the Aleutian Islands you seem to be forgetting something kinda big that happened that made them leave. I will give you a hint...it started with Truman and kicked into high gear under Kennedy and Johnson.

Pretending the Dixie-crats left for any reason other than "We dont want no rights for dem Darkies" is the type of revisionist history I expect out of Texas textbooks or Faux News. Please tell me I read your post wrong.

Yeah, that LBJ was just the walking epitome of the coastal liberal.

 

[Kepler]

Yeah, that LBJ was just the walking epitome of the coastal liberal.

I never could figure LBJ out. By all rights the dude should have been another Strom Thurmond or at best a Robert Byrd. But he was, apparently, the real deal. Actually committed to something like racial justice, or as close as you were gonna get in 1964 anyway. How did that happen? Was he just 6 sigma off the mean?