2022 Elections

Wednesday Morning Open Thread: It’s Good to Be A Democrat

by Anne Laurie| April 5, 20238:02 am| 252 Comments

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TRUMP: LOCKED UP
WISCONSIN: LIBERATED
CHICAGO: SOCIALIST
PATRIOTS: IN FULL CONTROL

— ettingermentum (@ettingermentum) April 5, 2023

YOUR TEARS, THEY ARE DELICIOUS!

Chicago has fallen.

Breaking: Far-Left Democrat Brandon Johnson Wins Chicago Mayoral Race

To quote @emeriticus: The Right memes. The Left wins elections.

How many of us were even aware of the Chicago mayoral and Wisconsin Supreme Court elections today? How many GOP voters? https://t.co/jdKqZatmFt

— Jenna Ellis ???? (@JennaEllisEsq) April 5, 2023

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Senator Warnock elected to a full term

by David Anderson| December 6, 202210:18 pm| 193 Comments

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I've seen enough: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Herschel Walker (R) in the #GASEN runoff, giving Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 7, 2022

At this moment, it is a 50/50 race but almost all of the remaining uncounted precincts are from Metro Atlanta.

The New York Times expects the incumbent Senator to win by 3 points or so once all the metropolitan counties are counted.

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Late Night Open Thread: Shame on the GOP (Georgia Edition)

by Anne Laurie| December 4, 202211:09 pm| 100 Comments

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Jungle Book came out in 2016, when at least one of his sons would have been like 4

— post malone ergo propter malone (@PropterMalone) December 5, 2022

You could argue – wrongly, but at least it would make sense – that Republicans had to go to the wall for Walker when the majority was still up in the air.
To do it now is just humiliating, a zombie power-seeking reflex among people like Cruz and Graham. https://t.co/QhnKgnPGzS

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 24, 2022

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Glad to see the closing argument for this Senate race is "My vampire remarks were taken out of context." https://t.co/zlFnJVSuYm

— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) November 30, 2022

Take it for what you will, but the most conservative version of the model we've been writing up has Warnock still winning by +0.75 as the modal outcome. Hard to overstate what a tremendous deficit Herschel Walker and the GOP are facing here in the #GASen runoffs.

— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) December 4, 2022

NEW: Hershel Walker got a tax break the last two years on his TX home intended only for your primary residence — possibly running afoul of both Texas tax law and Georgia rules for establishing residency for both voting and running for office: https://t.co/N1xp0oXNZC

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) November 23, 2022

(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com)

Democrats fight for the future of American Democracy while all the Republicans are interested in is saving their party. https://t.co/NTASYtVfS6

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) November 19, 2022

I don't like Herschel Walker but I do feel some kind of way about watching a broken black man get used up by white men in college, by white men in the NFL, and then by white men in the GOP and not be there to pick up the pieces once they're done with him. Vote for Warnock though.

— I Smoked Twitter (@BlackKnight10k) November 19, 2022

To top it off, they put him up to this because they think black people in GA are as dumb and broken as Walker is but without all the touchdowns. But black people are acutely sensitive to these kinds of games and white people just further embarass themsevles with their vote.

— I Smoked Twitter (@BlackKnight10k) November 19, 2022

Aaaand here’s the Notorious Butter Goblin for the worst possible take…

Actually most black people from the south don’t sound like that. You can see this in his opponent, also a black guy, from the south, just without brain damage. https://t.co/mRgIV3Bksm

— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) November 17, 2022

Hoist upon their own petards:

Trump has succeeded in doing what Mitch McConnell has tried for weeks to avoid: making Georgia a referendum on Donald Trump.

Now is the time to organize for Raphael Warnock as if your life depends on it.

— Max Burns (@themaxburns) November 16, 2022

is way more dangerous to him than a hundred dinners with fascists. It's the one thing that will lead Republicans to abandon him, to save their own hides.

— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) December 1, 2022

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Voting Warnock for Georgia

by Anne Laurie| November 27, 20226:26 am| 196 Comments

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We sued to ensure Georgia counties could offer voting today and won. Republicans appealed all the way to the conservative GA Supreme Court. We won again and again.

Next time someone tells you there is no point in litigating to protect voting rights, show them this video. https://t.co/yWrrM8WuTf

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 26, 2022

Yes, we're doing this again🐕 pic.twitter.com/XuHX22RpDu

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 19, 2022

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I gotta give credit where it’s due: @HerschelWalker used to dazzle on the football field.

But the people of Georgia deserve a champion. pic.twitter.com/gjm8e4kw6M

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 22, 2022

Curtis Dixon was @HerschelWalker’s high school football coach in Wrightsville.

Curtis Dixon is voting Warnock. pic.twitter.com/eAWllgxDRp

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 22, 2022

What we did a couple of weeks ago was remarkable. Georgians showed up and I received more votes than my opponent. Let's show up again on or before Dec. 6th and seal the deal.

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 25, 2022

@VotersTomorrow will be working from now through Election Day to make sure every young voter shows up and votes. Join us below: https://t.co/LCN1Ymc416

— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) November 26, 2022

The runoff is HERE, and we need every Georgia voter to get out and VOTE this weekend if your county has already opened the polls!!! pic.twitter.com/Uw6qLQwopM

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 25, 2022

Listen up folks! If you're at your polling location before polls close, STAY IN LINE. Call or text the Voter Protection Hotline at 1 (888) 730-5816 if you run into any issues. pic.twitter.com/oy5prBgfab

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 26, 2022

Georgia deserves better than Herschel Walker.

Vote today or as soon as you can! Visit https://t.co/lzN6iu3pOH to find where you can vote early. pic.twitter.com/KPsq9rc1qy

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 26, 2022

Republican oppo researchers found an old Warnock sermon that they think makes him look bad but actually makes him look cool, it’s the first runoff all over again https://t.co/j55p8mmPb5

— knife-wielding hemophiliac (@NickTagliaferro) November 25, 2022

yes, if only warnock would practice christianity like erick erickson, who jokes about summarily executing his political opponents by tossing them bound and drugged out of helicopters https://t.co/AHnlYRH2YM

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) November 23, 2022

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Late Night GOP Death Cult Weirdos Open Thread: Bleak Masters

by Anne Laurie| November 23, 202212:56 am| 52 Comments

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it's not complicated, Mark Kelly was running against Nixon minus the charisma https://t.co/OABh3iF07Y

— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) November 21, 2022

Did someone say… postmortem?

lmfao the week before the midterm, Blake Masters used his Fox Business interview spot to promote a video game "where Mark Kelly destroys everything that you love" pic.twitter.com/QVlgi2xIKN

— ?? ?? primary everyone always (@AntiNateSilver) November 21, 2022

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via @ronaldjhansen:

"One person familiar with the information shared with McConnell, said Masters’ favorability was lower than former Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore’s was after reports that he pursued romantic relations with teen girls when he was in his 30s." https://t.co/VUo0JPrym6

— Azi™? (@Azi) November 21, 2022

Nothing new in the story; from a scrum of (five) eager Repub primary candidates, venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s loyal Renfield attracted the favorable attention of a certain former WH occupant. Their imprimatur was a boon when it came to the GOP’s crazier voters, and a bane when he was faced with appealing to the normies. Thiel, like any other venture capitalist, refused to throw good money after bad when advertising dollars might have made a difference; Mitch McConnell, who does not love the new Masters of the Universe interfering in his fiefdom, had better places to spend the party’s money.

“Blake Masters” is merely the best attempt of a transcription of his true name in the guttural screaming tongues of time immemorial, It Which Feeds In Darkness And Stalks In Dreams is the generally agreed-upon translation

— knife-wielding hemophiliac (@NickTagliaferro) November 22, 2022

now, i am no expert, but my armchair guess is that people didn’t really take to the memes celebrating a hedge fund guy by making fun of an actual goddamned astronaut who has been to space https://t.co/SrFSjtDlyn

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) November 21, 2022

It's Virginia circa 2005 IMO. Trending sharply left with a state Republican party that's gone completely feral, but still pretty evenly split. It'll be close to safe blue within 2-3 cycles though.

— Leonid Baezhnev ?? (@rev_avocado) November 21, 2022

here's the link lmao https://t.co/GyKjdnrNGb

— ?? ?? primary everyone always (@AntiNateSilver) November 21, 2022

two more things
1) you need to hear the music/sound effects
2) imagine ostensibly being a GOP staffer and getting paid to make a video game where you blow up cop cars lmao pic.twitter.com/sNRmkmfKlv

— ?? ?? primary everyone always (@AntiNateSilver) November 21, 2022

Can't believe "astronauts aren't cool" wasn't a winning message!!!

— tom r ?? friend to cows of all size (@StoryTom) November 21, 2022

Can’t find the tweet about Thiel breaking down Masters for bio-parts, but…

peter thiel revealing his latest 6'8 80lbs anglo minion, like skynet unveiling a new model of terminator

— Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) November 22, 2022

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The Speaker Speaks

by Betty Cracker| November 17, 202211:54 am| 256 Comments

This post is in: 2022 Elections, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Politics

Speaker Pelosi is scheduled to address the House at noon. Here’s WaPo’s livestream on YouTube:

For what it’s worth, Tara Palmeri of Puck News provided a preview:

On the House floor at noon, Pelosi will say in a speech crafted in part by Jon Meacham that she intends to pass the torch to the next generation of leadership but will stay on as a backbencher to help guide future leader Hakeem Jeffries.

I had to look up the last Democratic speaker before Nancy Pelosi (Thomas Foley). No disrespect toward Foley intended, but I don’t think anyone will forget Pelosi — she made an indelible mark.

Speaker Pelosi was among the first to recognize how grave a threat Trump and his movement posed to democracy, and she used her power to protect her institution and the country with great personal courage. I’ll always be grateful to her for that.

Open thread.

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Nancy’s Future

by John Cole| November 17, 202212:07 am| 73 Comments

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I have no idea what the future brings for Nancy Pelosi, but all I know is she gets to set the fucking terms.

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JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

The willow is too close to the house.

We’re not going back!

The revolution will be supervised.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Wednesday Morning Open Thread: It’s Good to Be A Democrat

Senator Warnock elected to a full term

Late Night Open Thread: Shame on the GOP (Georgia Edition)

Sunday Morning Open Thread: Voting Warnock for Georgia

Late Night GOP Death Cult Weirdos Open Thread: Bleak Masters

The Speaker Speaks

Nancy’s Future