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Please check out Seth Rogen’s twitter timeline, which for the last week has been dedicated to pantsing Ted Cruz:

It’s been a week of him just shitting all over the zodiac killer and it has been beautimous. Although it has been kind of disgusting that this appears to be the only repercussion for attempting a coup.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Someday President Cruz will sign legislation to ensure election integrity and we won’t ever have to worry about another election being stolen from Republicans.

  10. 10.

    geg6

    I hate Twitter and try not to read it because it gives me a headache.  But I have been following this as others report and Seth Rogan has pantsed Cruz repeatedly over several days.  It’s hilarious.  Ol’ Rafael has a big sad at getting crushed over and over by a Hollywood stoner.  Why, doesn’t Seth know he went to Harvard and was a master debater?

  13. 13.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: To hold out for his demand that Democrats keep the filibuster, McConnell was essentially forcing the Democrats who didn’t want to blow up the filibuster to blow up the filibuster so Democrats could take control of the Senate.

  14. 14.

    Leto

    Seth is pretty much been laser focused on this (and channeling his inner efgoldman):

    Seth [email protected] 24

    This isn’t a Twitter “feud.” @tedcruz tried to overthrow our government. He inspired a deadly mob to storm the Capitol. And I think that deserves ridicule. So fuck him.

  16. 16.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Baud: But they were already on record as being against killing the filibuster before McConnell’s surefire gambit to destroy the filibuster.

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Yertle doesn’t have his united caucus. He has (at least) three Senators heading for the exits. The possibility of him getting back into the Majority Leader chair is rapidly dwindling. Basically: he’s lost the sand he was standing on. And Schumer knew it.

    EDIT: good to see ya Fuckie.

  18. 18.

    frosty

    @Baud: Yes, you should get an award. You nailed it.

    ETA I see Omnes has a different, and more jackal-like, take on it. I don’t know what came over me.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    the fascist Left

    How is this assclown, whose dad murdered JFK*, a United States Senator?!

    *Fuck you, Ted.  If you aren’t going to bitchslap that orange shitstain to defend the honor of your father or your wife!, we’re gonna run with that shit!

  20. 20.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: That’s just two points below Obama’s honeymoon maximum right after he entered office, which, was, of course, also as popular as he ever got. It’s a decent start.

  21. 21.

    Ken

    @debbie: It’s like Cruz and Rubio are competing to win The Most Stupid Award.

    I wonder if they realize the quickest path to the nomination, and a real plus for the judges, is to win a Darwin Award?

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ken: I wonder if they realize the quickest path to the nomination, and a real plus for the judges, is to win a Darwin Award?

    I would award them both for launching themselves into the Sun.

  25. 25.

    BR

    A little late for the last thread, but: is anyone injecting the talking filibuster back into the discussion?  It might be a nice way to let Manchin say he didn’t overturn the filibuster and instead actually went back to “tradition”.  They could even return to the most difficult form of it, where someone has to do speak continuously and if they ever stop the rest of the senate can go forward with a majority vote.

  27. 27.

    piratedan

    well, if McConnell caved, then are we all good?

    Just thinking that I will wait and see when I see butts in chairs and see evidence of Dem’s holding hearings with them setting agendas.

    I am happy that Dems now can get to work instead of watching Mitch politically jack-off over all of our legislative norms.

    Lets hope that there’s a campaign finance and subpoena  for treason in his future.

  29. 29.

    BR

    @piratedan:

    I think this is premature celebration. Mitch is going to demand a 60-vote threshold for Biden’s COVID plan. Getting to 60 is tough — I mean, even Collins and Romney are complaining about Biden’s plan costing too much already. And among that group you get only 3-4 GOPers and get to 54 maybe.  Where are we going to get 6 more GOPers to support Biden’s plan without dragging it out and gutting it?

    I still think the talking filibuster is what they need to put into this “rules package” that is going to come up for vote now. Maybe someone can send a bat signal to Sen. Schatz or one of the other more responsive Dems.

  31. 31.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    You’re going to have to go to war with Rachel Maddow for credit, Baud, because she’s convinced it was her interview with Schumer that caused McConnell to back down.

  32. 32.

    Dan B

    @BR: I would be very pleased if the filibuster required that the person speaking had to address the policy and would not be allowed to stray from the topic.  And that censure and / or removal from committees would be the minimum penalty.l for going off topic.

  33. 33.

    Barbara

    I just spent 30 minutes reading the Dominion complaint against Giuliani.  What he did was unconscionable.  I don’t have the link, I closed it out, but it’s just wave after revolting wave of claims that it would be charitable to call demented.

    What gets to me the most, whether it’s Giuliani or the Capitol mob, is that they believe that they can do and say whatever, and no matter who gets hurt or how badly, oh well, tee hee, I didn’t mean to hurt anyone.   Fuck all of them.  I hope all of them lose everything.

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I think Bernie got hold of Mitch’s cell phone and texted him “Look out the window, Mitch!”

    Not that the neo-liberal corporate media will ever tell that truth.

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle and El Paso Times have in no uncertain terms called for his resignation. Monied interests have deemed him radioactive. More opprobrium from Texas will follow as layers of the rancid onion continue to be peeled back. Further repercussions (including within the Senate) may not arrive as fast or as broadly as you’d like but they’re in view and no longer beyond the horizon.

  37. 37.

    piratedan

    well if Dems have the agenda and have the ability to write the rules, I guess I would tell them to rewrite the rules for this session.  Then, I would give the finger to the GOP and tell them to vote their consciences…

  38. 38.

    Barbara

    @BR: It’s going to be one slog after another. The only thing I can say is that McConnell is actually not that great of a tactician beyond just saying no.  I suspect that there are enough wavering senators from his own party that he is trying to huff and puff but can only hold out for so long.  Everything Dems want to do is going to be a fight like this.  I think I am going to have to tune it out for much of the time.

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Barbara: maybe I’m overestimating the American electorate (again, even after the last four years), but I think voting rights should be the first test. Not just to force the Republicans to say “I am going to filibuster the John Lewis Voting Rights Act”, but force Manchin and Sinema (and, as Norm Ornstein just said, DiFi) to say “I am going to defend the filibuster at the expense of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.”

  40. 40.

    CaseyL

    If they’re going to keep the filibuster, I want it to be under the same rules the Texas State Legislature had when Wendy Davis filibustered a bill to restrict abortion:  on your feet the whole time, with no bathroom breaks.

  44. 44.

    BR

    @CaseyL:

    Yup. We need to start making calls to Dem senators demanding the talking filibuster. Manchin can take credit for restoring senate traditions and all that.

    I actually don’t think it matters what topic they filibuster on. Nobody is going to be listening, and GOPers will seem more ridiculous if they’re reading the phone book to stop COVID legislation.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    Perhaps you’d disagree but I feel confident that one invisible repercussion is that the viability of his presidential ambition is D.O.A. That’s not to say there won’t still be those willing to rally around him, however their numbers and voting clout will be severely diminished enough as to make any sort of serious run untenable.

  48. 48.

    Dmbeaster

    To appease the weak Dem Senators, the new Senate rules should limit the use of the filibuster to 5 or so bills, then poof for that session.

  49. 49.

    NotMax

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    This, this this. And not constantly flip the on switch of the neon DOOM sign over the deliberate pace of process nor about any deviation from an idealized wish list. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

  50. 50.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: and if there’s something we don’t like in the sausage, remember who’s to blame

    McConnell is the enemy. Rand Paul. Ted Cruz. Lindsey Graham. Wee Marco. Marble-head Ron Johnson. That’s the enemy.

  52. 52.

    Geminid

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Voting rights is a good test. President Obama said at John Lewis’s funeral that if the John Lewis Voting Rights was blocked by a filibuster the filibuster should be abolished. I’d also let the republicans filibuster a couple other pieces of vital and popular legislation, maybe immigration reform and a clean energy initiative. The more they block, the more apparent the need for filibuster reform. And if the Democrats have to include special benefits for Arizona and West Virginia, that’s cool with me if it’s cool with Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.

  55. 55.

    Gary K

    Slightly off-topic, but does any jackal have a strong opinion about Tim Ryan? Here in Ohio the papers are treating him as front-runner for the Dem nomination to succeed Portman. (On the other side it’s clearly JJ — I say that while spitting!)

  56. 56.

    Jay

    If the Senate convicts Trump, he can never run for President again.Help us surround the Capitol with this message on mobile billboard trucks durin' the impeachment trial, won't you? All it takes is a RT and a small donation. ?https://t.co/fwQUODvHfw— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 25, 2021

    ActBlue.

  60. 60.

    Dan B

    @Gary K: Tim Ryan seems like another Joe Manchin but more Hollywood central casting.  If he could tip more votes to Dems that’s fine.  I don’t remember much from his presidential run, like a non-entity.

  62. 62.

    Gary K

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Your “Marble-head” remark dredged up an old joke about Governor Endicott Peabody: “Massachusetts liked him so much they named four places after him: Endicott, Peabody, Marblehead and Athol.”

  67. 67.

    Geminid

    @Gary K: Well, I have weak opinions: Ryan did not impress as a Presidential candidate, and he and his colleagues shouldn’t have contested Nancy Pelosi’s Speakership in the last Congress. In the event, Ryan and his group did vote for Pelosi, so I wouldn’t neccesarily hold that against them if I was an Ohioan, which I am not. I bet Ohio jackals will have strong opinions, now that Portman has said he won’t run again.                                                                Portman, Pat Toomey (PA) and Richard Burr (NC) all had good shots at reelection in 2022. They each have their own reasons, but I have to wonder if they share a common dismay at the devolution of Republican politics. Their reelection would entail collaborating with the “primitives,” and that might not seem worth it.

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    Rumblings continue, except now no longer within a quasi-nether digital corner. There are multiple aware eyes watching every word and attuned ears listening to each syllable.

    Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former President Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter about killing legislators or attacking them outside of the U.S. Capitol, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.
    [snip]
    Similar to those intercepted by investigators ahead of Biden’s inauguration, the threats that law enforcement agents are tracking vary in specificity and credibility, said the official, who had been briefed on the matter. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included plots to attack members of Congress during travel to and from the Capitol complex during the trial, according to the official. Source

  72. 72.

    sab

    @Gary K:  Sigh. He’s my congressman. He has improved lately. He’s always been okay on poverty and civil rights issue, but he used to be very anti-abortion and very pro-gun. He’s from a very gerrymandered district that is quite blue, but he lives in a red suburb at one end of it.

    With him you never know whether you’ll be getting the child raised by a single mother or the product of twelve years of parochial schooling. He’s both.

    Got his political start under Traficant.

  73. 73.

    J R in WV

    @Dmbeaster:

    To appease the weak Dem Senators, the new Senate rules should limit the use of the filibuster to 5 or so bills, then poof for that session.

    @BR:

    We need to start making calls to Dem senators demanding the talking filibuster. Manchin can take credit for restoring senate traditions and all that.

    I actually don’t think it matters what topic they filibuster on. Nobody is going to be listening, and GOPers will seem more ridiculous if they’re reading the phone book to stop COVID legislation.

     

    @CaseyL:

    If they’re going to keep the filibuster, I want it to be under the same rules the Texas State Legislature had when Wendy Davis filibustered a bill to restrict abortion: on your feet the whole time, with no bathroom breaks. 

    The original, ole-tyme fillibuster, keep talking or shut up and vote.

    And fuck Traitor Rafael Eduardo Cruz, trying to end American Democracy!!

  74. 74.

    J R in WV

    I’m in for the fund to place Traitor billboards with Rafael Eduardo Cruz’s picture all over Texas. Will do a monthly contribution via Act Blue until the slimy fucker is gone.

    Still studying what to do about Good Ol’ Josh Hawley, who defended militia members after Timmy blew up the OK City Federal building pre-school. Josh was in High School at the time, and somehow didn’t get arrested. A Fuckin’ Shame!

    I guess this midnight funding spree is on as long as the Republican party is a Fascist bunch of fucking traitors. Or the rest of my life, which even happens first. I’m OK with that. Excuse for a sip of bourbon at 3 am.

  75. 75.

    JAFD

    @Doug R: No, actually, Mr. Clinton’s visage is going on the $1 paper currency, replacing George Washington.

    Just look at all the vending machines that already say

    “Insert Bill Here”

    ;-)

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