A New Politics Thread

[MDS]

most notable for this trump thing is how fox is praising him

2 seconds ago they were all in on deathsantis and now theyre back home. mustve seen their audience react

[General_Failure]

A lot of the Trump flags here in Pennsyltucky have come down, but not all of them.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Can someone, namely Merrick Garland, hurry up and indict that shteinbag?

Or can he just not wake up one morning?

Go away, Cheeto Dick.

Yeah the whole "fox is gonna turn on him" only lasted a few days. Now they see ratings and ad money. Can't imagine MyPillow dude has much money left to keep buying ad space.

[MDS]

based on what happened on tuesday, trump being at the top of the ballot might well be a great thing. maga crumbled and i cant imagine it getting any more popular in 2 years.

there is some risk with this of course but im perfectly fine with him running because the end result is likely a bloodbath for us

[PhillyPhreak54]

No doubt.

I'm just exhausted from seeing his face and hearing him and hearing people act like he's some farging God.

But if his presence in this helps fracture the GOP more I'll deal with it. But these short memories of voters worry me. I mean he's done so many awful things but yet people still fight to kneel before him.

It'll take the sycophants to totally disassociate themselves with him for him to not win. He will carry his core base though and that's where it opens the door for the Dems.

Assuming the Dems don't do what they usually do and that's trip over their own dicks.

[General_Failure]

The Dems are incapable of doing anything but dick tripping. This time the fundies tried to get a head start on Christian Nationalism and made apathetic voters do something about it. The far right will figure out the next pipeline they need to open up to peel off more of the youth vote, but it might take longer than two years. They're off to a good start with the astroturfed Just Stop Oil cringe, but that's not going to flip votes by itself.

I fully expect Donny to scum his way into the Republican nomination the first time DeSantis has to get on a stage with him, and I also expect the entire party to fall in line again.

[Zanshin]

Don, Rome, and I are probably the only ones old enough to remember when this played on TV back in 1983.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-phsyn3KQM

This world I'm leaving for my kids...

I'm offended. I was scarred by that, certainly. 7th grade? Something like that.

[Geowhizzer]

Don, Rome, and I are probably the only ones old enough to remember when this played on TV back in 1983.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-phsyn3KQM

This world I'm leaving for my kids...

I'm offended. I was scarred by that, certainly. 7th grade? Something like that.

You and I are about the same age, then.  I was in 7th.  Amazing how "wow" it felt back then... when it would be so melodramatic and contrived today.

[Diomedes]

okay, there is no way in hell Warnock loses his seat....I just don't see loser Republicans getting out the vote for this guy when his installation won't tip the balance of power..

US Senate candidate Herschel Walker of Georgia delivered a bizarre diatribe about vampires and werewolves during a stump speech in McDonough, Georgia, on Wednesday in a verbose example of the former athlete's ongoing, unorthodox candidacy.

Walker, a Republican who is headed to a December run-off against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, regaled a Georgia audience this week with the plot details of a vampire movie he said he was recently watching late at night.

"I don't know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not?" the congressional candidate said. "But let me tell you something that I found out: A werewolf can kill a vampire. Did you know that? I never knew that."

"So, I don't want to be a vampire anymore," Walker added, without further context. "I want to be a werewolf."

https://www.businessinsider.com/herschel-walker-veers-off-speech-to-rant-about-werewolves-vampires-2022-11?amp&utm_source=reddit.com

[General_Failure]

Well that's certainly one way to get the younger millennial SuperWhoLock vote.

[Rome]

I know we only share insane fears and disgust here...

But...

I spearheaded damage assessment reviews with about 30 people from FEMA today.  We were surveying the incredible damage the area sustained during the last storm.  We have 47 miles of beach here with 132 access points.  I'd say roughly 50% of them were destroyed or severely damaged.  These access points are critical to our tourist economy as is the beach.

Anyway, I drove the big cheese around and he was a Biden Democrat.  I made a comment about how happy I was to have a sane administration in power right now, and he agreed with me quietly.

They were all like that.  Young, professional, and absolutely engaged in trying to help fix this disaster we've wrought.  It was honestly the first time I wasn't despondent about government in a long time.   

Young people will save this planet despite the grotesque shape we've left it in for them to save.

[Diomedes]

Katie Porter won, thankfully.

[MDS]

another L for trump as murkowski wins in AK

let him be the nominee again please

[PhillyPhreak54]

This story is crazy.

https://twitter.com/esqueer_/status/1599464573827883008 46&t=ZHaBcI9x--e_PHLQiOf8vQ

[ice grillin you]

christians be wildin out...at least it was a power station this time and not a mall or school