US Politics, March 2024: The house of illuminati will NOT be holding any other event in the foreseeable future.

I am 100% in favor of the GOP foregrounding christofascists who seem like they've never interacted with another human being. Don't just leave that shit bubbling under the surface, y'all, let the normals of the world see how truly fucking weird and warped you are.

That fucker with the eye patch was on CNN (I think) talking about "abortions of convenience," and some other fucker was tweeting about being against replacing lead pipes. Keep it coming, keep it coming, all the way to November.

Some of the current class of loonies consider the fucker with the eye patch a Rino.

yeah Eye Patch guy is not liked by MAGA that's why he gets to go on CNN

I mean that is why they had such a disappointing 2022, turns out running a talking concussion for Senate and airing 90-second ads of you shooting stuff in a field doesn't actually get you a lot of votes

anyway I saw like 10 minutes of the SOTU. Biden sounded good. I hope he keeps that energy up. unfortunately after so much talk I think he really is gonna have to start getting more Doritos in the bag.

I look forward to Snickers slapping "Now with 10% more Snickers inside!" on their wrappers.

I think the campaign has begun...

New ad just dropped 🔥 pic.twitter.com/vXJy19jZvc

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 8, 2024

this was published before her rebuttal but lol:

Ms. Britt, who at 42 is the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate, is on Donald J. Trump’s short list of potential running mates, according to two people with direct knowledge of the list.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/us/politics/katie-britt-talking-points-influencers.html

Not a bad ad to get things going

omg, she's an actual Alabama senator? I figured she was a state senator or something.

that is a very good ad, though I think bits of it are dubbed over...during the actual SOTU he said "crimate crisis"

Sounded like 'crimate crisis' in the ad, as well.

Al Michaels once said a player was 'unmolested' on a broadcast, I'll let it slide.

brains leaking out their ears because biden shouted and it spooked them

Biden wants to replace lead pipes. He failed to mention that the unfunded mandate sets an almost impossible timeline, will cost billions, infringe on the rights of the States and their residents – all for benefits that may be entirely speculative. #sotu https://t.co/CD6zaEHK9M

— Kris W. Kobach (@KrisKobach1787) March 8, 2024

states' rights to drink lead

GOP: bring back leaded gasoline!

remember when people were eating horse paste

Republicans have been insane longer than I've been alive but there was at one point in time still some semblance of rational thought behind the things that conservatives picketed for/protested against, even if I still wholeheartedly rejected their thesis statement.

now it just boils down to "hey look I wouldn't personally drink gasoline but fuck the government taking steps to prevent people doing this - if people want to drink gasoline, that's their God-given right. also what evidence is there that gasoline drinking is bad for you. in fact...you know what ,I changed my mind, I'm going to drink a little each morning. actually you know what, it's going to be my primary beverage now, since it's triggering you so much. btw, please donate if you can to my Gofundme, I've had a lot more visits to the hospital for some reason."

like at least when I found a completed petition at church to ban several crime dramas from TV, I got why they were doing that, even as I picked up the petitions and surreptitiously threw them into the shredder

Republicans have been insane longer than I've been alive but there was at one point in time still some semblance of rational thought behind the things that conservatives picketed for/protested against, even if I still wholeheartedly rejected their thesis statement.

I know you're right, yet I was old enough to remember Newt Gingrich's Contract On America and just old enough to remember Reagan-Bush's economic policy, support of Freedom Fighters, and the nomination of Clarence Thomas.

I mean yeah, Reagan did also say most pollution came from trees so....I guess this is an Overton window thing

some other fucker was tweeting about being against replacing lead pipes

Seriously, who is against this?

(Racist assholes who have drunk too much lead-contaminated water, most likely.)

support of Freedom Fighters

Including, but not limited to, putting coke on the streets of Los Angeles and other cities.

I was in college for the Reagan years, I thought that was as bad as it could get. Ah, sweet summer of youth.

i.e. Republicans

xp

I saw the Kobach tweet after I posted that. Kris Kobach is the consummate grifter. I'm not sure he believes in anything except making sure he keeps getting steak dinners.

I don't know if I want to take Kris Kobach's advice on water pipes:

On June 23, 2001, Kobach married Heather Mannschreck, a former environmental systems engineer who now has a part-time photography business in addition to homeschooling their five daughters. Kobach, his wife, and their children live on their farm near Lecompton, north of Lawrence, Kansas. Their residence is in a building, the permits for which Kobach originally received lower taxation and permitting fees due to agricultural exemptions, rather than residential use. Kobach said he intends to build a residential home on the property. When building it, Kobach "closed in" the plumbing and electric work so it was not possible for the building inspector to examine it without tearing up the floor and removing walls that covered wiring. There was no septic system or water source. Despite those difficulties, he was granted permit waivers by the county administration, precipitating public controversy.

I am utterly confident that Kris Kobach's children do not drink lead-contaminated water.

They do, however, have their brains filled with religious venom.

can we assume that Britt's weird video is a prebuttal? I can't imagine that was recorded after Biden's speech

Even if it was recorded afterwards, they’re always written before anyone hears the SOTU, which is why they’re always terrible and are only interesting in terms of checking out whatever freak got picked for this awful assignment.

"Alright, which one of you is completely unprepared to be in front of a camera, borderline terrified? You? You're up!"

needs to be a rising star, like bobby jindal

lol

Charlie Kirk, founder of the far-right Turning Point USA youth group, said: “I’m sure Katie Britt is a sweet mom and person, but this speech is not what we need. Joe Biden just declared war on the American right and Katie Britt is talking like she’s hosting a cooking show, whispering about how Democrats ‘dont get it’.”

meanwhile, the War on Woke continues unabated:

The Florida legislature passed a bill on Friday that prevents any city, county, or municipality in the state from adopting legislation aimed to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat, prompting many to call out lawmakers for being “cruel” to the “most vulnerable workers”.

Charlie Kirk understands that youths are notoriously susceptible to calls to 'go to war'.

xpost A Right to Dehydrate State

Last I heard about Charlie Kirk was his campaign to convince people that MLK was actually bad.

which actually displays some refreshing honesty about the feelings of right-wingers towards him rather than quoting the one sentence.

xxxp I guess "Workers Rights" = Woke now

right-wingers won't cop to it, but they have been spending enormous amounts of effort to convince people that Jesus was actually bad

The cruelty is the point, I reckon.

Joe Biden just declared war on the American right

If only, Charlie.

xxxp I guess "Workers Rights" = Woke now

Where Woke - and workers - go to die

ok watching Katie Britt's SOTU response and holy hell it is weird

I just saw somebody refer to her as Betty Cracker.

its not just the weird ASMR whispering it's the fact that she is tying to emphasize every word

she’s extremely evangelical youth pastor, the sudden switches between fake exuberance over how wonderful things can be to fake barely contained righteous anger over how the wonderful things have been taken away but will return again soon under divine leadership

It’s very artificial and off putting, manipulative and downright creepy to most people, but also about 25% of Americans like it

I hope trump picks her for VP... the weirder, the better

Trump picks her, there so going to be an ensuing Sexual Harassment suit if they lose.

'Come here and sit on my lap... Pence did it all the time!'

Rolling Stone said even Trump campaign members were calling them to denounce the SOTU response. I doubt she’s gonna be the pick.