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"recent monticello visitor" is, uh, certainly one way to describe an antivax goldbug bitcoin crypto weirdo. https://t.co/A1U8vKC59P
— GONELIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 11, 2022
Apparently Fox News is having a little trouble recruiting ‘guests’ to distract from all the Jan6 Committee hearing news. You liberals don’t understand, Tom Jefferson is an American *saint*!!! may be a reliable chestnut, but it’s not exactly designed to attract Very Serious Pundit attention…
Now doing business as ‘The 1776 Restoration Movement‘!
(I’m writing this in the wee hours, so it may be outdated by the time you read it, but IMO still risible.)
So, they had a busy holiday…
F*cked around, finding out:
D.C. Metropolitan Police also impounded Riddell’s black big rig. https://t.co/4MC0R9q23m
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) July 6, 2022
Comic Relief Open Thread: Anybody Remember the ‘People’s Convoy’?Post + Comments (152)
To balance the scales we must sandblast Stone Mountain it's the only way.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) July 6, 2022
Elsewhere, in Those Krazy Konserva-Kids Antics:
Very Far (From) Right-winger Open Thread: Losing Their Meagre Moiety of Marbles*Post + Comments (81)
I know the cruelty is the point, but how the hell could ‘thoughtfully bitchy’ Libby Emmons be damaged enough to tweet out something this depraved?
As a factual description of political cause and effect this is nonsense, but as a would-be performance of virtue it's also incredibly depraved: sorry, libs, you wouldn't bend the knee, so we decided to punish a 10-year-old rape victim to set an example https://t.co/caqQaNM6e6
— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) July 2, 2022
Horrorshow Open Thread: What *Broke* These People?Post + Comments (101)
Ian in comments made an interesting statement:
I recently switched my registration to republican so I can vote for her [CHENEY] in the primary. It makes my skin crawl and my soul hurt to think about a) being a registered republican and b) voting for Cheney.
What are people who live in competitive or red leaning districts that have closed primaries thinking about changing parties to vote anti-authoritarian? To me, a fundamental belief that democracy, defined simply as a system where parties can and do lose and then accept that fact as they change and wait for the next election, is the key baseline value. Everything above that is policy worth voting on in a very consistent way in the general election.
Democrats as a party believe in democracy. There is no intra-party debate over whether or not an election is legitimate. There are plenty of debates over policy. There are plenty of fights over identity. I have strong opinions on some policy preferences but the core assumption that democracy is a good thing is universal among individuals who have a chance in hell of a winning a primary.
That is not the case for Republicans. Last night in Colorado, the anti-democratic slates in the GOP primaries lost.
Colorado is one of the states that makes it easiest to register to vote & to vote (inc. all-mail voting and wide use of drop boxes). And it has a near-record turnout rate.
It decisively rejected a whole slate of election deniers today running for election offices and Senate.
— Taniel (@Taniel) June 29, 2022
So are people thinking about taking Republican primary ballots when and where available to vote against anti-democratic authoritarians and precluding the ability to add their votes/voices to intra-Democratic party squabbles?
The North Carolina primary cycle is over for 2022. I think that anti-anti-democratic votes are the most valuable votes I can cast in primaries for the next several years.
Party Switching and anti-authoritarian votingPost + Comments (90)
CBS News Poll: 57% of Americans believe that the Supreme Court will now go after same sex marriage while 55% believe they will limit access to birth control.
Hard to argue with them given that Thomas called for it, but not as clear that a case could get 5 votes. We'll find out. pic.twitter.com/4FhO0G04O7
— The Wokest Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) June 26, 2022
Monday Morning Open Thread: It’s Becoming A TrendPost + Comments (205)
Operatives whose side has lost the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 POTUS elections have opinions about how dumb Democrats are https://t.co/uDfC7uf7i1
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 26, 2022
A male journalist talks to other men:
… In conversations with over a half-dozen Republican insiders, who were granted anonymity to discuss the political ramifications frankly, there was a lingering sense of skepticism that abortion would still be a major issue in November and a belief that, even if it is, it might actually redound to the benefit of the GOP.
This wasn’t to say abortion wouldn’t matter in the midterms, but that the issue wouldn’t make a decisive difference at a time when voters have other problems on their minds. “Democrats are going to run on this but they are only going to run on this because they have no other choices this cycle,” one national Republican operative said. “It’s all they have at the end of the day when inflation is high and the economy is sagging.”
A D.C.-based operative noted that “in the immediate few weeks, there will be a lot of outrage as the dust settles, but this is a state-by-state, district-by-district issue.” The operative added that while the Dobbs decision might cause Democratic voters to turn out more heavily in deep-blue areas, there is doubt within GOP circles that this will cause a surge in Democratic voters in Texas or Florida. “People don’t notice abortion on a daily basis,” the operative argued. “They notice how much bacon costs for their kids and how much gas costs to fill up their car.”
There was some sense that the Court’s ruling was “a double-edged sword,” as one social conservative activist acknowledged. “It could help Democrats by reinvigorating them and pumping them up to get angry and turn out in the midterms, that could happen.” But there was also the belief that there are only limited gains to be had in the midterms. As the national operative explained it, “the problem that Democrats have here is that people who really care about abortion and are single-issue pro-choice voters are already all voting Democratic. If you dive into the polling, they are already squeezing every bit of juice out of young college-educated women, who are the group of people most motivated by this.”
And some of the Republicans thought it could actually be a net plus for the GOP in the fall. This was not because of the impact of the issue per se, but a sense that Democrats would turn it into a self-inflicted wound. “Democrats are going to overplay their hand,” one well-connected Republican predicted. “They overplay every hand they get.” The insider thought, for instance, that “there’s going to be violence and [Democrats are] not going to denounce the violence.” Another red-state operative put it more bluntly: The sight of “a bunch of pink-haired women lighting fires in the streets” was not going to motivate moderate pro-choice women to vote for Democrats…
That doesn’t necessarily mean the midterms will be disconnected from the court’s decision, or fail to have an impact on the debate over abortion. “The first elections after Roe are going to determine a lot moving forward,” the social conservative activist suggested, and that might not be a good thing for the Democratic Party. “If the GOP wins huge majorities after the Democrats have made abortion the centerpiece of the midterms, Democrats will have lost so much political influence on this issue.”
Ergo, it’s our job to ensure that the Democrats win huge majorities, thereby highlighting how out-of-touch the Republican party really is…
GOP Death Cult Open Thread: We Need to Make Sure It Does Not Go Well for ThemPost + Comments (217)
