US Politics March 2022: "Now reflect upon your woke sky..."

Alternate Title: "America's getting much dirtier, there are, like, dollar stores everywhere..."

lmao pic.twitter.com/Tsrt8j1ik9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2022

Good morning!

lol I'm gonna have an aneurysm thinking about the quote in the thread title for too long

the right literally cannot form a take on any issue that does not involve wokeness, cancel culture, or Lets Go Brandon

like if aliens tried to enslave us the Charlie Kirks of the world would be like "now are you happy you cancelled Dave Chappelle??"

Woke sky at night, millennial Twitter's delight

'there are dollar stores everywhere!'

And in many places, Tucker, there are only dollar stores

Baby, it's woke out there

Cool

Bexar Co. early vote DEM

CD28: Cisneros 72%, Cuellar 23%
CD35: Casar 46%, Viagran 30%, Rodriguez 14%
HD124: Garcia 69%, Garza 39%

— Texas Election Source (@TXElects) March 2, 2022

Didn't know that Louie Gohmert was among Ken Paxton's primary challengers for Texas AG.

xpost Is that a serious cool or a sarcastic cool? I don't know any of those candidates, so I don't know if that's good or bad.

Cisneros is a progressive, Cuellar is very conservative and very corrupt

Casar is Squad/Bernie-endorsed, and his district is a safe seat

Cisneros is up by 6, looks like outstanding votes are split evenly between counties she's winning 2:1 and counties Cuellar is winning 2:1.

McMullen County, pop. 600, had eight votes cast in the Democratic Primary. One Democrat for every 150 square miles.

Where are the State Of The Union hot takes? Do I dare check the Ukraine thread?

Biden said Putin will never win the hearts and minds of the Iranian people.

Was that before or after he said we need to “fund, fund, fund” the police?

Fund fund fund until vladdy nukes us all anyway

Sadly, there appears to be no pictures of Mike Love & Joe Biden together.

My own take, it sucked on the progressive front, but watching the Republicans squirm over Brandon & the cdc yanking their mask grievances was fun to watch.

Lip reading boebert "what the fuck is this?"

it was fine, his statements on Ukraine were about what you'd expect and want at this point and that was the best part of the speech. i honestly tune out on these things when they just start rattling off lists of what they did and what they want.

Dems are going to be proudly denouncing “defund the police” in 2056 long after anyone remembers what it originally meant or who said it or what happened in the summer of 2020

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 2, 2022

.@HayesBrown: Rep. Carolyn Maloney opted to wear traditional Ukrainian dress to tonight's #SOTU. I can’t help but be reminded of a previous time Maloney donned national garb for effect.

Evelyn Hockstein / AFPhttps://t.co/sqFy0NXj93 pic.twitter.com/AfVpbeizpo

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 2, 2022

it looks like she bought it at the halloween store

https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/lauren-boebert-marjorie-taylor-greene.jpg?resize=1800,1200&w=1200

The guy in the middle contemplating that he'll have the misfortune of showing up in this photo tomorrow.

In case this meme hasn't shown up elsewhere:

https://scontent.ffcm1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/274896274_10227850765324710_5331725779773673938_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=XrOn7Zr5cdwAX9XgHsC&_nc_ht=scontent.ffcm1-2.fna&oh=00_AT_OBByQwhGohaBSCBU6rnNI3DiQYYBwhfKuij1G3_DY1g&oe=62259B45

The Spartan Cheerleaders are back with a new message for 2021!

...or '22!

lmao

#Breaking: Texas congressman Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid https://t.co/exNTrbch3U

— Lauren McGaughy 🌟 (@lmcgaughy) March 2, 2022

wut

we've all been there

"Taylor's got an ISIS Bride, children of thalidomide"

...the affair involved a payoff to a Plano woman, Tania Joya, a former jihadist previously married to an Islamic State commander.

huh

love knows no boundaries

I married an ISIS bride on the 5th day of May . . . .

'This is ridiculous': @GovRonDeSantis scolds students for wearing face masks during his @USouthFlorida visit https://t.co/v9XLjueCYi pic.twitter.com/TFeC6t6wL9

— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) March 2, 2022

Charming guy.

Wow:

He'll plead to seditious conspiracy (!!!!!!) and obstruction.

WOW.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 2, 2022

Whole thread, in real time, starts here:

Now listening to the Joshua James plea. He's an Oath Keeper who was checking in with news from the Willard Hotel on Jan 6, and then talked w/Stewart Rhodes about sedition afterwards.

Judge Amit Mehta clearly already noted details from earlier plea docs he saw.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 2, 2022

And related:

Hearing the Jan. 6 committee will reference in filing tonight Trump lawyer John Eastman was involved in a potential crime — in order to argue he cannot cite attorney-client privilege to withhold some docs from inquiry

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) March 2, 2022

NEWS: A lawsuit against the city by a former Park District attorney alleges that Mayor Lori Lightfoot berated staff in obscene terms over Columbus statue, told them “My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest dick in Chicago.” https://t.co/I542wZrbPF pic.twitter.com/7wPdhpto09

— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) March 3, 2022

By many accounts she certainly *is* one of the biggest dicks in Chicago ...

Anti-trans Texas House candidate Jeff Younger came to the University of North Texas and this is how students responded. pic.twitter.com/vmsH2aV0xf

— Dallas (@59dallas) March 3, 2022

A+

Law enforcement agencies in Minnesota have been carrying out a secretive, long-running surveillance program targeting civil rights activists and journalists in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. https://t.co/aRuyyCGf7Q

— Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) March 3, 2022

FUND, FUND, FUND THE POLICE

POLITICO finally deigns to write a long story about rural Dem voters:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/04/pennsylvania-rural-democrats-trump-neighbors-00008915

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbwtuF-XsAA1Cel?format=jpg&name=medium

Can't resist sharing this ...

I will not be running for reelection due to a recent, exciting change to my personal life, and I look forward to spending more time with my family. pic.twitter.com/IL2CpKOCFS

— Brian Kelsey (@BrianKelsey) March 4, 2022

... He was indicted on federal campaign violations in October.

(He's a Tennessee state senator)

JiC, I know you're from PA, but you also know better than that meme.

the shock and anger with which they’ve come down on Cawthorn for this vs. every other breach of decorum leads me to conclude, with a very heavy heart, that the orgies are real https://t.co/MEUoUPu1E9

— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) March 30, 2022

Every visual that ran through your head of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul high fiving during an Eiffel Tower moment was real.

The only thing that would surprise me about the Republican coke orgies would be to learn that there were women present.

"exaggerated/untrue" hmmmm

same thing!!

it really happened big-time, or it never happened (and of course it happened, big-time), same thing!

i think it says the maximum penalty for hate crimes is increased from 10 years to 30

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 18:35 (yesterday) link

bruising scenario is also not serious bodily injury

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 18:36 (yesterday) link

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/55/text

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 18:37 (yesterday) link

Ok this is weird, but I think that the Vox article initially linked the wrong text, because what I saw before was totally different from this.

the shock and anger with which they’ve come down on Cawthorn for this vs. every other breach of decorum leads me to conclude, with a very heavy heart, that the orgies are real https://t.co/MEUoUPu1E9

— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) March 30, 2022

You can kind of ignore everything I said then. I don't really have a problem with an increased max. xp

"the orgies are real" for April Thread Title.

in regards to the modern GOP I think often about that Quincy Jones quote on the Nazis - "they acted like that because they were coked out all the time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ACW0HYe7Q

bold strategy let’s see if it pays off for em

Biden's budget proposal: 10% increase in military; 11% increase in federal law enforcement; 13% increase for ICE. Biden wants $8.1 billion for ICE, which is higher than the highest amount Trump ever spent on ICE. https://t.co/6cWJNMGinH

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) March 29, 2022

I think they want to lose

Interesting piece on how Democrats actually managed to do a better job gerrymandering this year, although the kind of buried bit at the end is that this is partly because Republicans backed away from it a bit, focusing on a longer term strategy of protecting red districts in purpling areas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/podcasts/the-daily/midterms-elections-redistricting.html

Legalize weed and give us checks this ain’t difficult people

They don't care about winning or losing because this is just a game of power to them, and they see that they can line their pockets easier by sucking the long dong of settler empire's militarism than actually giving a fuck about their constituents or any of the problems that are actually facing the citizens they represent.

otm. they also probably don't like being in power so much because not being on the sidelines gives them more cover and plausible deniability.

minor quibble, empire doesn't have a dong itself it's a dong vampire

err.. being on the sidelines

ok but have you considered that being out of power creates dozens of make-work consulting jobs for the failkids of rich liberals

so who can really say what’s “good” or “bad”

being in power does that too, to be fair

good morning!

xpost mmm yes but the fundraising. the sweet sweet fundraising.

How can this not be the April thread title: "We’re going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes."

http://i.imgur.com/lwY8uFH.jpg?1

Nice edit by Chuck Tingle.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/senate-turns-back-david-weil-as-labors-top-wage-hour-enforcer

Mark Kelly slipping in to complete the craven trifecta.

Do you remember that point last year where it was suggested that the feed on these US politics threads would slow to a trickle once t was gone?

the 't' party has never left us

What a thread:

In his decision blocking most of Florida's new voter suppression bill, Judge Mark Walker explicitly calls out other courts—including SCOTUS—for putting the right to vote "under siege" by "gutting" the Voting Rights Act. https://t.co/k3FKwDBY4F pic.twitter.com/w9t19Js9NZ

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 31, 2022

From Stern's thread:

Will Walker's 288-page decision by halted and eventually overturned by the Trump-stacked 11th Circuit—or, if not, SCOTUS? Probably. But he made it as difficult as possible for any fair-minded judge to find a flaw.

The problem is that we're pretty short on fair-minded judges.

otm x1000

Struck again in @maristpoll how low Biden's approval stands w/the young (34% for Millennials/Z). Likely biggest fall-off from his 2020 vote share among any large group. Will compound fears of youth organizers re Nov unless he shows progress on their issueshttps://t.co/vZT8SZqo90

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 31, 2022

just got a fundraising text from Mark Kelly looool fuck all the way off man

If anyone cares to chip in a couple of bucks to primary Kurt Schrader, my district's blue dog disgrace of a Democrat, Jamie McLeod-Skinner is running a very competitive race against him and she's up against Schrader's big corporate $$$. I've contributed $135 to her so far.

yes i've been phone banking for JMS, please help me achieve my lifelong goal of booting scumbag kurt schrader out of office

APRIL THREAD TITLE UNLOCKED

Ingraham: Why not just name the roller coaster Sex Mountain? pic.twitter.com/BZuYrC4N6Q

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 31, 2022

GLENN GREENWALD
MOMENTS AWAY

^^^ our real April titlte

Glenn's edging

GOP voters are such a bunch of serfs. Give 'em enough rope and they will hang themselves. And this is from one of the 'moderates'...what a FU.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/mitt-romney-cut-back-retirement-benefits-younger-americans?fr=operanews

They're welcome to grab on to that third rail with all their might.

anything mitt says or does has almost no relevance outside of utah

achieving the uppermost echelons of power & influence just to get sucked off next to Rep. Cawthorn in a room that looks like a hotel lobby

— wint (@dril) April 1, 2022

real american politics is from the pulpit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeE72bkxGk

they all have guns

Back underneath the big tent, the exorcising of evil spirits continued with a Kentucky teen who had been brought to the service by his grandfather, Nightingale, a church attendee. The boy, Bronson, had been writhing on the ground, beset, when he suddenly got up and sprinted for the door.

Volunteers from the church, in black hoodies, tackled the teen in the back of the room. They held him down, rubbed his back with Bibles, prayed in tongues and exclaimed, “Out, out, out!” One blew a shofar, the ram’s horn normally used in Jewish religious ceremonies that some Christians also use.

The two had watched Locke together online, but it was Bronson’s first time at a service, Nightingale said. The boy, who had never sworn before, according to his grandmother, was now cussing at the volunteers and growling.

“This is what happens at a deliverance service,” Locke said from the pulpit. “Cry it out, shout it out, weep it out, snot it out. We’re going to set people free tonight.”

Suddenly Bronson’s tight body went limp. The volunteers huddled over him. When they helped him to his feet, he was smiling and calm, ready to be baptized. “Amen, I never had to chase nobody before,” one of the volunteers told the teen.

“There’s a first time for everything,” Bronson said. They went up to the front of the room, where a livestock watering tank painted sky blue inside awaited and the Praise band began softly playing the worship song “No Longer Slaves.”

“I’m no longer a slave to fear, I am a child of God,” they sang. Locke came down from the stage all smiles. Bronson stepped gingerly into the tank.

“Upon your confession of faith in Jesus Christ, the power and glory of the Gospel and this beautiful deliverance we have seen tonight, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” Locke said, dunking Bronson into the water as the music swelled.

Bronson came up, water sluicing from his jeans and shirt, smiling radiantly. His grandfather wrapped his arms around his neck from behind and crooned into his ear along with the music, “You are a child of God.”

“Hallelujah,” everybody said.

good to bury something like that at an end, anyway

This is what happens at a deliverance service: US Politics April 2022

source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP8kmZvf4b8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0LY0I5bLA