a really sharp dude I know once told me the only three rules of american politics that matter are 1) don’t tell me what to do with my body or my things, 2) who do you think you are, and 3) who the fuck do you think you are
infer accordingly
— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 9, 2022
Republicans flopped last night because "these women just went crazy". pic.twitter.com/06Ov5kjy76
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) November 9, 2022
In that it's an illusion that drives a toxic Colorado couple out into the freezing cold? https://t.co/AZDU8J8IIF pic.twitter.com/sGKpaHkamu
— zeddy (@Zeddary) November 9, 2022
Real Clear GOP stalwart:
It turns out that selecting your candidates from the Star Wars cantina might not be a recipe for electoral success.
— Sean T at RCP is a free elf (@SeanTrende) November 9, 2022
Fox News White House correspondent:
What was their first coup?
— Paige ????? Ex GOP ?? (@ItWasACoup) November 9, 2022
Michael Brendan Dougherty, among the truest of True Believers…
Just- all the chatter on my conservative and GOP channels – is rage at Trump like I've never seen. "The one guy he attacked before Election Day was DeSantis- the clear winner, meanwhile, all his guys are shitting the bed."
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) November 9, 2022
*'If only there had been some kind of clues as to his character' @GOP
— NoelCaslerComedy?? (@caslernoel) November 9, 2022
lol https://t.co/97SA9vK60T pic.twitter.com/qR4Zw3S5Kp
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) November 9, 2022
BREAKING Election Report MAP!#Election2022 #MAGAmeltdown pic.twitter.com/mY2NvC7xBU
— tRUMP Virus! ?? (@BidenVaccine) November 9, 2022
Your friends stab you in the front. https://t.co/IzH57uBvwh
— John Schindler (@20committee) November 9, 2022
Now that we are done with fake red tsunamis, can we please turn back to real orange jumpsuits?
— George Conway?? (@gtconway3d) November 9, 2022
Jerzy Russian
I love that blue map!
Jackie
@Jerzy Russian: Me too!
OOOOHHH I somehow managed to be #2! I can go to bed a winner!😴
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Ah, excellent, the Conservatives are now claiming Fetterman faked a stroke, so he could claim the victim vote. Yes, like how liberal women are addicted to ending their pregnancies with serious physical and emotional trauma we liberal men can’t get enough of life altering crippling disease to get that sweet, sweet socialized sympathy.
mrmoshpotato
LOL!
Alison Rose
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: They really are the concept of “cheating on your partner and then accusing them of infidelity” broadened out to an entire political party. Because you fucking know some GOPer asshole would try that shit if they thought it might work.
mrmoshpotato
Is there one for George’s Trump trash wife?
Geoduck
That map should have a tiny little red dot in Florida.
And you know that the Shiatgibbon’s star is going into eclipse when Ben Garrison switches to DeSantis as his new man-crush.
mrmoshpotato
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Hillary Clinton called them “deplorable,” and they lost their shit.
She was being nice!
eclare
@Jerzy Russian: Same here! Already retweeted it.
trollhattan
@Jackie: Here is your winner’s chicken dinner!
🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗
Winglets, on sale ’til Friday.
trollhattan
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
As performance art, kinda wish that were true. Lord knows, the “Aww, poor guy, I feel sorry enough to vote for him” is one of the most powerful urges in politics.
TriassicSands
Yeah, it’s really crazy to vote when your right to control your own reproductive life is threatened. Just Nuts! What the hell is wrong with women?
JoyceH
@TriassicSands: Well, that was Jim Messina, and I think he was saying that the women were very angry. Poor choice of words, granted!
Hitchhiker
I’m so happy to see all those fools eating their smug words about how people just don’t care that much about abortion.
Most disgusting to me is one Sarah Isgur, whom I have a petty loathing for that is probably out of all proportion but I do not care. She was a rich girl from Houston. She was political director for Ted Cruz in 2010. She worked in DOJ under Trump, where one of her signature moves was defending the child separation policy. She was senior counsel to Rod Rosenstein during the Mueller investigation, and that’s where I really lose my shit with her.
She leaked private text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and did it in such a way that the DOJ could pretend someone from congress had done it. That was our Department of Justice, baldly using irrelevant (but juicy!) personal information to give trump cover, indifferent to the personal cost to people who were — gasp! — having an affair. Trump spent the next few years mocking them in public as part of his delightful riff about the “Russia Hoax.”
Sarah Isgur Flores ‘summoned a select group of reporters to the Department’s offices.’
‘There, they allowed the reporters to view the 375 text messages. The reporters were told they were not permitted to remove or copy the messages and could not source the messages to DOJ’
Last week I happened to see Sarah Isgur (who now appears on ABC to deliver her worthless political commentary) informing the public that nobody cares about abortion, and Democrats were really stupid to try to run on something as dumb as half the country losing a basic right to privacy. Red wave, etc.
Fuck you, Sarah. Seriously fuck you. I’d tell her this on twitter, but she blocked me, for obvious reasons. :)
Major Major Major Major
Jon Ralston says NV-Sen is looking pretty good
Princess
They’re not going to be able to get rid of Trump so easily. His followers won’t think he failed; they’ll say he was failed by the GOP.
They won’t be able to get rid of us so easily either. I already see the same pundits and election forecasters who denied it was an issue this time trying to suggest it was a one-off. Abortion is not going away as an issue.
BeautifulPlumage
@Geoduck: Oh God, dare I go look? Can it be worse than marmalade mussolini on a …
BeautifulPlumage
@Princess: maybe not the folks who travel from rally to rally, but there has to be some fair weather tr*mpers who will leave because of the loser stink. (Or maybe not)
Geoduck
@BeautifulPlumage: It’s pretty tame by Garrison’s standards, but it’s definitely one of the most unflattering depictions of You-Know-Who that he’s ever drawn. If anyone is morbidly curious, here is a link.
eclare
@Hitchhiker: Oh wow, I did not know any of that background. But anytime TFG mentioned Lisa, in a grotesque and pervy way, I almost threw up. He was giddy with cruelty.
NotMax
@eclare – @eclare
Nominated.
:)
eclare
@NotMax: Hahaha..
I forgot that the site goes wonky from about 1 to 1:10 AM CST
Did you get all your shopping done?
Princess
@BeautifulPlumage: absolutely but it will split the party. The MAGATs will hate that the “establishment “ is gunning for their hero. They’re Trumpers first, GOP second. And the press will never stop following Trump around. And De Santis is a dishrag. I’m feeling the Jeb!mentum already. Whoever comes out on top, it won’t be pretty.
Ivan X
@Geoduck: This is one of my most regretted clicked links. I need mind bleach.
cain
@Princess:
The clash between trump supporters and the GOP will be good. The Russian oligarchs will approve of chaos.
NotMax
@eclare
Ultra full day in town. ½ hours all told running aro9und completing errands and grocery obtaining.
Nursing a sore and tender arm and numb fingers on the hand of the same side from the bivalent vaccine shot.
NotMax
@NotMax
(No edit function. Fix.)
Ultra full day in town. 8½ hours all told running around completing errands and grocery obtaining.
Nursing a sore and tender arm and numb fingers on the hand of the same side from the bivalent vaccine shot.
Major Major Major Major
@Geoduck:
Man, real rush job by Garrison. Would love to see the thing he drew in advance lol.
eclare
@NotMax: That is a lot of erranding! Luckily I didn’t have any effects from the omicron shot, I hope yours clear up soon.
BeautifulPlumage
@Geoduck: he depicts de santisserie like a generic white guy who’ll need a garrison caption (TM) to be identified. Sad.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Honestly, this Election Day is coming to feel like Dunkirk for me. Historical trends, unanticipated economic disasters, active sabotage by the GOP, all were ingredients for a really bad night, but Democrats really outperformed all of that in a big way, helped by anger over Dobbs and fear about the future of the democratic experiment in the United States.
But we might still lose the House and/or the Senate, even if it’s only by razor-thin margins.
So … we’re intact, motivated, ready to kick ass in the future … but in a worse position than last week.
Dunkirk.
HumboldtBlue
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
Meh, we have boats.
TriassicSands
@JoyceH:
Agreed, Joyce, but amazingly, it is just as easy to say, “Which makes sense…,” or “Who can blame them….” I’m fully aware that he wasn’t implying that women had actually gone “crazy,” but even as a man, I’m horrified by what is happening post-Dobbs to women. I’m going to be disappointed — unrealistic as that is — if every single woman in America doesn’t stand up and say, “Enough.” I will always vote to try to help protect women’s rights, even though, deep down, I don’t really believe that men should have anything to say about women’s reproductive lives. Since there is no practical way to allow only women to vote on such an issue — Dobbs would have gone down 2-1 on the SCOTUS if that were possible — I’ll vote as if I were a women who believed in her own autonomy. And the actual turnout numbers aren’t high enough to even hint at extraordinary behavior. Turnout was good for a “midterm election.” But more people should have voted in this election than in any other election we’ve even had, because more is at stake and the threat isn’t going away.
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
Not, one fervently hopes, the Lancastria.
lgerard
UGH
The people who blame this on trump or claim that the republican party has a “trump problem” still don’t get it. trump is what he has always been, a symptom. not a cause. The republicans problem is that they have surrendered their party to religious fanatics and gun nuts and allowed those subcultures to define what a republican is and is not. Until that changes they are going to have a lot of nights like this despite their best gerrymandering efforts.
patrick II
@Princess:
Trump has also threatened them with running as an independent if he doesn’t get the Republican nomination. That scares them to death, but gives me comfort.
TriassicSands
@BeautifulPlumage:
I fear the “loser stink” smells like roses to wingnuts. That said, I think Trump’s act may be getting old even for some of his die-hard supporters. All he does is whine about what a victim of injustice he is. Eventually, that and his age may seriously cut into his support. DeSantis offers even the worst of the cultists all they could hope for in a candidate — with far greater promise of delivering for them in the future. Yeah, they’re stupid, but that “loser stink” just keeps getting worse and worse. His supporters want to impose their beliefs and preferences on everyone (no gays, no immigrants, etc.) and DeSantis is fully on board.
My hope is that as Trump continues to whine and fade, he decides he’d rather burn down the whole party than cede control to DeSantis. That could create significant difficulties for the whole party and with full-scale internecine warfare in progress, Democrats will have a better chance of regaining or retaining control.
JWR
Speaking of corrupt L.A. County Sheriffs, can anyone say campaign finance law violation?
I voted for his opponent, Robert Luna, for the same reason I voted for Villanueva 4 years ago: to get rid of Jim McDonnell. All lateral moves, I know, but the amendment allowing the Board of Sups to get rid of corrupt sheriffs passed, so I’m hoping that’s a good trade-off for now.
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
Just the little ships
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: Now I have a Wooden Ships earworm.
NaijaGal
@JWR: Villanueva pretended to be somewhat progressive four years ago. Everyone knows better now, so I expect that Luna will win.
JWR
@NaijaGal: Yeah. One of the things Villanueva did 4 years ago was to pledge not to turn undocumented immigrants over to ICE. Good way to score “Elect Me” points back then, but since then, not much, including a promise to root out deputy gangs, which Luna is talking up this time. But like I said, another lateral move on the part of those doing the hiring. We shall see.
JPL
@Major Major Major Major: Please let it happen. I just don’t want ten thousand republicans descending on GA for the runoff.
Baud
@JPL:
They’ll still descend. The difference between 50 and 51 is big.
Matt McIrvin
I guess the lesson here is that the way Republicans can still win big is by literally threatening to put opposition voters in jail.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Threats would backfire. They would need to jail them. Go big or go home.
livewyre
@Matt McIrvin: I went into this election with the realization that what to do afterward would be the same no matter how it went. It doesn’t matter how Jeb or McCain might still pull through. They can threaten to use nuclear weapons if it pleases them. We don’t stop.
Frankensteinbeck
@BeautifulPlumage:
There are and have been. Most Trump voters and the vast majority of elected officials have left him. People don’t get it for a few reasons.
Please note that in terms of policy, of what they do, almost everybody has moved on. Nobody asks him about what laws he wants, or caters to him when he makes a demand. They do what they’ve always done, a bit more brazenly.
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
That difference didn’t help the first time, and we’ve been the ones swarming special elections this year. I’m optimistic about Warnock.
EDIT – And what a difference in two years, where Warnock winning was close to unthinkable!
Betty
@TriassicSands: You know that creepy guy is a former top Obama adviser, right?
Rusty
My father has always described as a fundamental American right, the right to be left alone. It may not be formalized in the constitution, but it sure is a core American belief.
As for Trump candidates, there are no such things. We still have primaries and the base picked the loser candidates. The problem isn’t Trump, it’s the Republican base. The best description I have heard is Trump didn’t create the role, he just auditioned for it. The base may eventually want someone new for the role like Desantis, but in the end he will still just be filling the role the base wants. That Trump was particularly good at playing it and energizing the base doesn’t change the fundamental relationship.
Frankensteinbeck
Oh, and McConnell said he would retire if Republicans don’t retake the Senate. PLEASE, Sun Pony, let that happen! Get rid of the “gravedigger of democracy!”
Matt McIrvin
@Rusty: And it was working against us during COVID. The antimaskers/antivaxxers chose “my body, my choice” as deliberate mockery of the abortion-rights movement, but they were also making use of the principle: I can do what I want, in their case, even if it literally kills other people.
Geminid
@Rusty: The late M.D. Russ, writing for conservative site Bearing Drift:
Russ was a retired Army Colonel and “independent conservative” who passed away this spring. His article “Trump is the Republican President”* examined the course of the Republican party from Newt Gingrich’s Contract for America until 2020. His conclusion was that Trump’s 2016 candidacy was the culmination of a dynamic that Gingrich invigorated and subsequent politicians promoted.
*Bearing Drift, June 20, 2020. Bearing Drift is published by self-described conservatives, and focuses on Virginia politics, especially Republican party politics.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
We would probably be against abortion rights if abortion were contagious.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@BeautifulPlumage: Proposed nickname for Desantis (this may already be in use – if so my apologies): Half pint Hitler.
Chief Oshkosh
@Hitchhiker: And she’s now somehow on Harvard faculty.
Harvard…I hate those guys.
LiminalOwl
@Hitchhiker: For whatever my opinion is worth: I would say it is impossible to have a loathing too great for someone who defended the child separation policy.
trucmat
Half those Twitter embeds are meaningless without following the link to Twitter. No thanks. I’m sure there was a point and the writer included them for a reason but without going to Twitter it’s just gibberish. Perhaps the writer could write a sentence about the tweet so it makes sense in place instead of relying on the reader to go to Twitter.
Geminid
@trucmat: I like Ms. Rikrah’s practice of writing out tweets she wants people to see. It’s not that hard.
Mimi
@BeautifulPlumage: I’ll bet money the people who follow Trump around smell like the people who follow the remnants of the Grateful Dead.
CindyH
@Mimi: of patchouli?