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

we'll invite Neanderthal too.

Oh absolutely- I’m in!

A good piece about what happened in NJ this weekend.

a detail related to the timning of gallagher's resignation that i didn't know:

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) surprised party leaders and narrowed the House GOP majority to a single vote with his decision to resign from Congress effective April 19. Gallagher had already announced he wasn’t going to run for re-election. His resignation date is one day after the deadline to call a special election, meaning House Republicans will be hamstrung by his departure all the way through the end of this Congress.

The New Jersey article is fascinating. NJ politics is so weird and terrible. And it also reinforces the importance of having really good candidates — it sounds like even with the whole set of circumstances putting pressure on the corrupt system, it still would have prevailed without a strong challenger.

The other thing about Andy Kim is people say they're glad to vote for him. Not "I like my Congressman" or "I'm with X" but "I feel good about this." That doesn't come cheap, and I think Kim knows it.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 25, 2024

His resignation date is one day after the deadline to call a special election, meaning House Republicans will be hamstrung by his departure all the way through the end of this Congress.

I don't think this is correct if he's resigning 4/19. See:

Wisconsin election law requires a special election to fill a vacancy if it occurs before the first Tuesday in April of an election year.

The first Tuesday in April is the 2nd.

hmm, i'm not sure! the quote i posted above was from here, and it links to this piece...

https://apnews.com/article/mike-gallagher-resigns-house-republicans-majority-73f1991cc954d865d55ca7949d57dd35

...which says "There also won’t be a special election for Gallagher’s seat. His resignation will happen within a window in Wisconsin law that dictates the seat be filled in the general election."

but obviously i have no expertise! makin' coffee is my expertise

Yeah, there won't be a special election, but he's not resigning ONE DAY after the deadline

Seems clear that it's a deliberate fuck you to the House leadership tho, right? He could resign earlier and guarantee an election.

Those guys know how to hate.

More age verification in the news: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/floridas-desantis-signs-law-restricting-social-media-people-under-16-2024-03-25/

We have a similar bill pending in Tennessee, which if I'm reading it right will require every existing user of FB/Insta/X/TikTok/etc. to verify their age within 14 days of taking effect. Unclear exactly how that will happen.

Automatic First Amendment problems, which, you may scoff, but lower courts basically stopped DeSantis' other anti-social media bill a couple years ago (and the most heinous parts of Don't Say Gay).

Yep, I'm hoping for that outcome. Which obviously it seems like these kinds of restrictions should be struck down — but I'm not sanguine about conservative courts' views of the First Amendment. Or at least the parts not about "religious liberty."

Republicans already starting in on these alien cargo ships sent by foreign powers to knock down our bridges

Maria Bartiromo tries to link the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore to "the wide open border" pic.twitter.com/bkMdvFNa3g

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2024

But Singapore is their favorite place!

Also lol at conservatives not knowing what a "Flag of Convenience" is

it's live network news. it's a constant churn of the art of fake forgetfulness where you just re-learn things from guests every hour. all knowledge resets every so often so viewers just tuning in will be able to follow the plot

To be fair, many of them are genuinely dumb as rocks.

Just for the record, no matter what country a cargo ship is registered to, who owns it or who is the captain, in that situation it would be under the command of a local ship's pilot who operates under the authority of the port where the ship intends to dock.

and that local ship pilot's name? Joe Biden

in that situation it would be under the command of a local ship's pilot

Apparently there were actually two Baltimore pilots on there.. but they had an apparent power failure

For some unknown reason, RFK is here in Oakland to announce his running mate today

Cue the trumpets, I guess

plenty of bunting to make it look like a 1968 event

If only . . .

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that he had selected wealthy Bay Area attorney and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his vice-presidential running mate.

Shanahan, the 38-year-old daughter of a Chinese immigrant who grew up in Oakland, California, and was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is a major Kennedy backer. She gave $4 million to a pro-Kennedy super PAC, American Values 2024, to air the retro-style Super Bowl ad that conjured the 1960 campaign of Kennedy’s uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy, an environmental attorney, anti-vaccine advocate and conspiracy theorist, considered a variety of unconventional candidates to serve as his running mate. Among the names in the mix: the rapper “Killer Mike” Render, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and TV host Mike Rowe, Kennedy told the San Francisco-based radio station KCBS on Monday morning.

lol

has anyone told Killer Mike

Good to get an attorney sorted from the start though

xp lol my thought exactly

She gave $4 million to a pro-Kennedy super PAC, American Values 2024

so that's all it takes to nab the VP spot

No elites here, no sir

Anyway, I look forward to watching this fall on its face

Better be careful on my afternoon walk, there's Kennedy supporters out on the roads

Mike Tomczak is still alive, if he wanted a QB he could have gone for the Three Mikes.

I am trying to imagine how wealthy I would have to be before I gave $4M to a political candidate.

Mike "Dirty Jobs" Rowe

Yeah, great pick if you need to fund your campaign for another 7-8 months

MacKenzie Scott really seems like the standout of the tech billionaire exes huh.

Informative:
https://radioinsight.com/blogs/107990/ross-on-radioinsight-reconsidering-radios-worst-summer-of-the-early-80s/

Huh

Wrong thread, equally instructive

So fast it might make your head spin

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/26/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-exit-00149193

I never trusted Ronna McDaniel. That's why I eat at Burger King.

Stolen from facebook.

I LOLed

Shanahan is alleged to have had an affair with Elon Musk as well

These fucking dimwit American oligarchs are never going away, they are going to ride this grift as long as the US population remains stupid and gets it's info from people like Joe Rogan.

polls are ... shifting ?

My former colleagues at The Economist have Biden polling ahead of Trump now for the first time since September 2023. My own average is not so optimistic, but it's clear Biden has gained ground over the last few weekshttps://t.co/9gcin3v2tv pic.twitter.com/Mrq627ho8y

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) March 21, 2024

I am still being cautious (I've already been burned by seeing a shift toward Biden this cycle, and I'd like to see high-quality polling confirm it), but this could be something. The prolific online polls have trended toward Biden over the last few weeks https://t.co/E6ilPcQAvT

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) March 26, 2024

and

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/26/biden-pulls-even-with-trump-as-economic-view-improves-slightly-cnbc-survey-shows.html

this in particular is noteworthy

Seems important. pic.twitter.com/IDhwPBeNkf

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) March 26, 2024

Alabamba Dems just flipped a State Senate seat by 25 points in a district that Trump won in 2020, dunno how significant that is but it does feel like Dems have performed better than they've polled pretty consistently since 2016

assuming he doesn't wind up in prison for various crimes already committed, what do you think Trump is going to do when he loses this?