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

No way there's not a statue and a Vietnam memorial type wall where you can get your name engraved for 10 thousand bucks

Wall of Rubes

Pence: I will not be endorsing Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/YJIuTBjzNR

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 15, 2024

bro most people are surprised

that may be a big deal, he can't really afford to lose those 5 votes

genuinely surprised

'Had he not commanded an unruly mob to hang me, my decision may have been different.'

to this day, whenever I see "Mike Johnson" I think they are talking about the guy from Dinosaur Jr and who worked with Mark Lanegan. It happened again today seeing a New Yorker email with "Mike Johnson" in the subject line. "Oh I forgot about him," I think, and click, and am instantly annoyed.

I do wonder if this is specifically because there was a mob out there trying to kill him or if it’s a sign that vanilla conservatives might not support him this time around. I know at least one guy who reluctantly voted Trump in 16 and 20 who vowed not to this go round

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXkN3nJyWEA

xxp a Eugene OR native! and local Gen-X legend

xp I made the comparison to Sen. Joe McCarthy awhile back.. everyone was scared of him until they weren't anymore. Maybe Pence's statement is the beginning of something, too early to tell

xxp I saw Mike Johnson with Mark Lanegan at a church in San Francisco, probably over twenty years ago; great show

four tracks from Mike's old Eugene band Snakepit are here: https://harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wild-gift-music-by-robert-christie-and-friends-1984-1996

I know at least one guy who reluctantly voted Trump in 16 and 20 who vowed not to this go round

― frogbs

lol, 10-to-1 he votes for Trump again.

real mike johnson appears to have 'moved to france' with his wife over 10 years ago and retired from music. good for him!

i swear, i’ve nearly concluded that scotus, roberts, cannon, the gop, and garland, et al actually want trump to be uh, removed from contention by non-legal means.

so they just keep making sure he’s on them fuckin ballots. til people freak the fuck out. freaks me out.

then i stop projecting and just try to remember to vote. what could go wrong?

I think Trump actually getting the nomination has spooked some people in power. Like now they know that if Trump is kept out of the election by conviction or whatever his folks are not gonna accept it.

(musician Mike Johnson is quietly amazing on this:

Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet (1990, Sub Pop Records) )

^^^^ I have a first pressing of that on red vinyl, bought it when it came out

Feel like someone should start a Mike Johnson thread on ILM, but it would probably just swerve into a political discussion.

So what does the dem margin of victory have to be in order to get 1 of the 3 trump-appointed sc justices to vote against overturning the election?

Not the most comforting reading, but

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/15/mr-maga-goes-to-washington-00147054

The coverage of Vance’s first year in office has largely overlooked his emerging role as the political face of the New Right

how many times has a 'New Right' emerged and then imploded? Wasn't Paul Ryan part of some "New Right"?

The 'New Right' can't differentiate themselves from Trump and MAGA because in today's GOP it is dangerous to say anything that is different from what Trump says. So there is no 'New Right' except as a weak ass branding tool that no one knows about or cares about except younger politicians like Vance.

This whole idea of 'reshaping America' ignores that fact that most Americans live in cities, and most people who live in cities want nothing to do with this poppycock.. so this 'reshaping America' might gain some traction in suburban Oaklahoma City or the outskirts of Boise, but nobody else gives a shit

suburban Oklahoma City or the outskirts of Boise

I've been to Boise. It's a nice, cosmopolitan city with a walkable downtown and some really nice restaurants and an art museum and a club that books death metal bands. This shit isn't even gonna fly in Idaho, a state that has basically doubled its population since 2020, almost entirely thanks to an influx of California transplants.

JD Vance is as powerful now as he is ever going to be. His personality is just as repellent as Ron DeSantis's, and he's a craven flip-flopper who talked mad shit about Trump when that seemed like the safe bet, then went total bootlicker when that was the move. He has loser stink on him, and Americans hate a loser. He'll probably be able to hang onto his Senate seat for as long as he wants it, but eventually he'll quit and become a corporate lobbyist or something equally vile and amoral. But in the meantime, he'll be the subject of blowjob profiles from Washington insider journalists, who are some of the stupidest people on Earth.

otm

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/15/politics/texas-busing-migrants-donations-invs

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasted shortly after he began soliciting private donations for his controversial migrant busing program that there would likely “be no cost to the state” given the outpouring of support from concerned citizens across the country.

But after nearly two years of fundraising to offset the program’s costs, Abbott’s operation has collected less than half of 1% of the roughly $150 million spent on busing migrants to sanctuary cities, according to a review of state records. And CNN found that the largest donation – $900,000 – never made it into the state’s coffers, either because it was a mistake or a prank.

Records show that at most, around $550,000 has been raised to date.

All prospective donors shot their wads on Trump sneakers & NFTs.

Even if convictions don't happen before the election, it's possible the mere existence of the cases may suppress the T vote - Maybe even enough to overcome the people ostensibly rallying to his side because "he's being treated so unfairly." IMO if you're on Team "He's being treated so unfairly," you were already on the Trump Train.

NY times has updated headline from Trump does "freewheeling " speech to : Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trump-speech-ohio.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU0.sir9.UmpIP0xdPxeb&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Trump called migrants "animals" in Dayton, Ohio speech yesterday

Trump began that rally with a call to stand up and salute the "great patriots" "the January 6 hostages.”

his appeal must surely be growing more selective

lol

Freewheeling = no brakes

nah I think it's true, the Jan 6th stuff is a real liability, obviously a lot of voters will bear it and vote for him anyway but there's a lot of evidence that it's lost him a lot of support in the center. but he can't exactly disown them because then he loses support from the crazies. a skilled politician could probably thread the needle somehow but Trump is in way too deep and also I suspect his brain doesn't work anymore

Increasingly freewheelin'

He can't disavow them without letting of the RIGGED ELECTION stuff. What he's forcing all Republican voters to do is to some degree ratify that claim. Especially if he actually wins this year, he will insist on that being the real story — the unjust rigged ouster, followed by righteous restoration. He's built a mythology that he's trying to make manifest, and weirdly enough he has a reasonable chance of doing it.

Oh god if he wins he’s going to pardon all those PB and 3 percenters and let them run wild in the streets.

he'll embolden them like they've never been emboldened before

they'll be whatever the opposite of increasingly isolated is

warmly embraced?

excruciatingly coddled

Hell, they'll end up on his payroll, through a layer or two removed natch, to do his dirty work.

that eyepatch fuck will be attorney general

Crenshaw? Trump hates him I think.

No, isn't there a Proud Boy type with an eyepatch too? A real piece of shit?

Got like, 18 years in the clink for Jan. 6?

and for being a real piece of shit?

A piece of shit with an eyepatch.

Shot his own eye out?

Oath Keeper (lol) leader Stewart Rhodes. I forgot about the Oath Keepers!