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

I still have no idea who you're talking to here.

I reread Aimless’s initial post and it still reads to me that he said her tack was gross and the political climate that would have torn her apart had she not been gross was also gross and dehumanizing to everyone involved, ie Republicans, and then a couple of posters decided this was a land mine directed at them and began to vigorously jump up and down on it with a pogo stick.

I agree with his initial post, it's the subsequent ones that had me scratching my head

the thing about this that's so aggravating is that her point would be good if I could believe it was in earnest. nobody has any right to tell any disenfranchised class of people who they have to support, how they have to vote. but do I think that's why she's making this point? absolutely not. she just wants to shut people up who rightly ID trump as a rapist

He didn't tell her who she had to support or how she should vote, he asked how she reconciled her support for rape victims with her support for Donald Trump. It's a tough question and maybe a bit of a gotcha, but there are certainly better ways to answer than splitting hairs about the difference between a civil and criminal trial and talking trash about E. Jean Carroll.

it’s an extremely difficult question for her, and I think it is possible for her to be angry in good faith about the question.

do I believe that is the case here? no. do I believe Stephanopoulos wanted the q to be a straight victim shame? i do not, but can be persuaded otherwise.

and not a gotcha imo— it’s obvious apparent incongruity to me.

I think it’s simple, you can care about rape victims but care more about shutting up the people you don’t like and making sure they suffer

Or you want to be vice president and some twisted moral calculus makes you believe that the "good" you could accomplish one heartbeat away from the presidency outweighs throwing the occasional rape victim under the bus

She was employing the basic DARVO move there, as well as a furious gish gallop (talking rapidly over the top of someone), its classic troll/bad faith arguing.

watching this dumbass biden hearing really makes you realize that the tragic flaw of democracy is that complete fucking idiots get to help run things. we need a king again!

You can have ours, if his God doesn't save get him first

it is kinda fun that the Demz are just going in hard on Trump and ignoring everything else. playing video clips of trump not remembering anything. how do you like it, fucko! everyone should just call trump Fucko now.

In which President Biden engages in a long discussion about cars as Robert Hur tries, unsuccessfully, to get him back on track. Twice, according to the transcript, the president "makes car sound." pic.twitter.com/tEo5X59pjB

— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 12, 2024

Well, I don't know, hearing the president get all jazzed up about electric cars isn't exactly the worst thing in 2024.

makes car sound

Mr. Krickbaum: Instant torque.

This reminds me of reporters rolling their eyes when Bill Clinton went on long discussions about the history of the Federal Reserve.

starting to get the feeling that the people initially summarizing this deposition were not acting in the best of faith

Biden might have just been fucking with Hur (Hur), Bill C. couldn't help showing off his knowledge.

Also, no one really learned anything after Bill Barr's "summary" of Mueller's findings.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-robert-hur-transcript-rcna142855

At one point, Hur acknowledged that some of his questions would “relate to events that happened years ago.” Biden joked in response: “I’m a young man, so it’s not a problem.”

According to the review of the transcript, Biden at times expanded beyond the narrow subject areas of particular questions. At one point, he described in vivid detail a 2011 visit to Mongolia, where he displayed unexpected archery skills at a cultural performance in his honor.

people have dug up the video of that, and he does do pretty well with a bow and arrow

lol

Considering the newspaper, I'm surprised by the fairness.

Hur should’ve just enjoyed the ride and the stories

Hur: Have you ever driven a chariot?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIeBGm9XoAAzEze?format=jpg&name=medium

Scranton Joe

I was trying to explain to a coworker a sequence of events at work that I was deeply involved in around the same date range that Biden's testimony covered today and had to backtrack several times. I don't think there was a "gotcha" moment and they're lingering on whether he has photographic recall (he doesn't)

I freeze up almost every time I’m asked my kids’ birthdates, and often get them wrong even so.

Azi Paybarah:

Sort of funny that in a hearing focusing on President Biden’s alleged memory lapses — which his aides say are really verbal slips — that Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) himself just made a verbal slip, referring to Dana Remus incorrectly as President Barack Obama’s former White House counsel, instead of Biden’

is Biden....funny?

Republican Rep. Ken Buck announced Tuesday that he will leave the House on March 22, moving up his existing retirement plans.

Buck's decision will leave Republicans with a paltry 218 seats in the chamber, compared to Democrats' 213, furthering Speaker Mike Johnson's constant struggle to herd the House GOP and pass any legislation through regular order. Republicans can still only afford to lose two votes on any bill with united Democratic opposition, assuming full attendance.

Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday that he didn’t know about Buck's departure plans shortly after the announcement, noting he is looking forward to talking to the Colorado Republican. A Buck spokesperson told POLITICO that Buck called Johnson about 30 minutes before the announcement went live and left a voicemail. The move caught many of Buck's GOP colleagues by surprise.

“This place has just devolved into this bickering and nonsense,” the conservative Colorado Republican said in an interview on CNN shortly after his announcement. "It’s the worst year in 40, 50 years to be in Congress.”

There's already a competitive primary to replace Buck in the red seat. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) jumped into that race for Colorado's 4th congressional district and moved across the state after she narrowly won reelection by just several hundred votes in her current district in 2022. Asked if Buck's announcement would shift her plans to run in his district, Boebert replied: “I’m running in the 4th.”

In Colorado, the governor is required to set a special election 85 to 100 days after the vacancy occurs. Candidates are nominated by the state party. The Buck spokesperson predicted it would occur in June, likely the same day as the primary election for the full term: June 25.

One member to go before we get Speaker Jeffries.

the squeaker of the house

It'll be hard for them to keep up their furious legislative pace after this

Running for Ken Buck's seat is . . . Lauren Boebert.

It could not possibly come too soon, but even if Jefferies won the speakership I wouldn't expect an avalanche of progressive bills. Mainly I'd expect passing the appropriations to fund the government would get somewhat easier. There's still the Senate filibuster out there to kill everything in sight.

Well, the two biggest blocks to filibuster reform--Sinema and Manchin--will both be gone, just in time for the GOP to take the Senate of course.

Boebert thinks she'll win in the 4th. I'm not so sure. It's pretty red, but not crazy red like (parts of) her old district.

didn't Bobo nearly lose in a Trump +30 district vs. some nobody the DNC wouldn't even fund

But that was before the Beetlejuice tape

xp Yeah, Adam Frisch. He is running in the 3rd again. I get pretty constant emails from his campaign.

The 4th includes Longmont, which is much larger and bluer than it used to be. This could be another win for the Dems.

Haha, RFK Jr floating Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura as running mates. What a clown.

I wish he wasn't running but I also think he probably hurts Trump more than Biden, so w/e.

Especially if he does pick Rodgers.

Jesse Ventura was the most pro-mass transit Governor of Minnesota up to that point. He also tried to organize a union at the WWF, but Hulk Hogan ratted on him.

yeah, the Biden campaign should run some pro-RFK ads.. "This guy is the REAL Trump! He's too conservative for America, and doesn't believe in forced vaccinations!"

If he's ever seen as a serious threat by anyone other than bored journalists, the campaign that feels most threatened by him will burn him to the ground in a weekend.

I actually hope he does pick Rodgers just to see the inevitable Trump meltdown over another "betrayal".

Rodgers would be a hilarious pick. My only hope for Biden is that Trump picks an absolute freak as his VP. I got a little scared when Tim Scott was rumored but the latest news that he was looking at JD Vance or Katie Britt has given me hope.