FlamingLiberal posted:

She also failed to realize that this isn’t the 1990s/early 2000s anymore and that most moderates are looked at with disdain by your average informed voter

Eric Cantonese posted:

I might be wrong, but it seemed to me that Arizona had a big influx of new people that changed the political landscape and I can see why that caught Sinema by surprise. (Her failure to adapt to that is totally on her though.)

If anything, West Virginia has the opposite phenomenon, with a net exodus.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

More importantly she fell hard for McCain hype, which was mostly bullshit, and didn't understand that the brand was "slightly less evil Republican" not "ex democrat who does whatever has a dollar sign in front of it."

But she was dumb enough to fall for the smell of her own farts and there were a lot of lobbyists waiving a lot of bills at her while telling her she smelled like roses and new cars.

Zapp Brannigan posted:

To be fair, he did only lose to Oz by like 950 votes out of 1.3 million cast.

But it was very funny watching Fetterman, a man who had legit brain damage, go on to crush Oz in the general lol

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

This tech hearing is getting kind of wild.

There are parents in the audience whose kids died from suicide, doing dumb thinks they saw promoted by TikTok, being groomed, kidnapped, etc. holding pictures up of their kids behind the tech CEOs.

The CEO of X/Twitter (Linda Yaccarino) just read prepared remarks that included "We need to raise the standard across the entire industry, including those companies who are not here today and were afraid to face the public." Some member of congress then said, "Let the record show that Mrs. Yaccarino initially declined to appear voluntarily and had to be summoned here via subpoena."

Mark Zuckerberg is sweating and crying after people were dogpiling him about lawsuits and asking about DOJ investigations.

Lindsay Graham and Amy Klobuchar described how Instagram did nothing after a guy was blackmailed with naked pictures of himself via a scam and then he killed himself when they told him to deal with it because it wasn't their job to police scams.

The exchange went:



Live link here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUjv2Ky7PcM

Zuckerberg is crying after being grilled by dorks like Ted Cruz and people who are usually white bread passive backbenchers like Chris Coons.

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1752732606464921749
https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1752739416596967934

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Dick Blumenthal and Josh Hawley just asked Zuckerberg if he would apologize to the parents with dead kids sitting behind him. He actually stood up, faced them, and said:

Seems like a fairly good on-the-spot apology.

And then he had to add on:

https://twitter.com/zamaan_qureshi/status/1752742234250674473

Zamujasa posted:

i am not "gonna hand it to him" (zuck) because while it's nice he managed to pull an apology out of his rear end, he's only done it after how many years of enabling this poo poo with no end, and even then only at the prompting of a senator currently grilling him

FlamingLiberal posted:

We also had some good old fashioned Red Panic and racism from Tom Cotton

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1752747934125359168?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA

Kchama posted:

She had still some left, like ‘protecting women’s reproductive rights’, which is what got a lot of people voting for her, and then she decided that she should do that by…. blocking passage of bills doing just that. That one got a lot of people mad.

Basically compromise is fine, but when your compromise is “screwing over your own side for no gain on important causes”, that starts to piss people off. She voted with the Dems 90% of the time, but if the 10% she didn’t had been on non- or less important stuff, then she wouldn’t be in this trouble. Unfortunately, that 10% was on stuff that was extremely important to her base.

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1752914377395851642

This is like, struggling state party numbers....

zoux posted:

I mean I have no doubt the money men can turn on the spigots when they want but that still shows a shocking lack of donor buy in for the year leading up to the election.

Morrow posted:

Even the GOP's control of the house is threatening various tax cuts, since they can't keep their caucus cohesive enough to pass legislation and negotiate.

zoux posted:

They're not even going to be able to do a consolation impeachment

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1753134034115281196

Ms Adequate posted:

Jesus Christ, a Republican who can see further than the end of his own nose? I didn't know there were any of those left.

Gyges posted:

In addition to Trump and other's blatant skimming, the crazies are actively driving out competent people. Remember that McCarthy was one of, if not the, biggest fundraisers.

Bar Ran Dun posted:

Yeah it’s a huge truly insane mistake for the right to go nuts on Swift and the NFL.

It might end up being their “Have you no sense decency, Sir?” moment. GOP politics is now incels tweeting about a pop stars mons pubis being gay.

Rappaport posted:

The "have you no decency" moment hinged on other people having said quality. The conventional wisdom around the MAGA crowd seems to be that they do not, and the polarization of the US voting populace seems to revolve around this. You can pick your favourite three Trump quotes that'd fit the decency bill just as well, and the answer was a resounding "gently caress you, got mine" already.

Eric Cantonese posted:

Yeah. I'm not quite sure why it started going viral again recently, but I have seen various tweets like the one shared in this thread about it all this week.

Staluigi posted:

I know we probably know why tucker carlson is in moscow but, ok, really, why is tucker carlson in moscow

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

A jury in Michigan, for the first time in American history, held the parent of a minor mass shooter criminally liable for her son's mass shooting.

She was convicted on 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Since it is hard to keep track of all the mass shootings over the last few years, this was a school shooting where the mother was found to:

- Have given her son the gun.

- Texted her son to do a better job hiding bullets after he was caught with them in school and got in trouble.

- Let her son keep the semi-automatic handgun she bought him unlocked in his room.

- Covered for her son when he was caught multiple times making threats to shoot up the school and writing out his plans in notebooks.

- Let her son bring the gun to school, but told him not to take it out or get caught with it.

She says that she never believed that her son was capable of mass murder, so all of her actions were done within that context and she wasn't responsible for his actions.

The prosecution alleged that her level of negligence was so high that it qualified for involuntary manslaughter and the jury agreed.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1754938615430308115

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jennifer-crumbley-trial-verdict-rcna136937

zoux posted:

The border deal was real real bad but the outcome of the very same politicians who have been demanding a solution to the border crisis turning around and killing it for electoral advantage is such a good outcome for the Democratic Party. Pretty risky to put that out there given it could've been passed, but I guess you never bet against GOP intransigence.

It seems almost too conspiratorial to say this was an intentional tactic, I don't think it was, I think the Dems are just scared of immigration since Americans (oh and every other nation in the world) are so insanely reactionary about it. But if it was the plan, it was quite a coup. I mean you got the head of the CBP union on Fox saying the GOP is lying about what's in the bill, you got Fox anchors directly contradicting Nancy Mace on the provisions of the bill.

https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1754610585923101070

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1754866298457059572

Doocey is pushing back! Doocey!!!

Furthermore, Plan B is now to pass a clean foreign aid package - which is what the Dems wanted in the first place

zoux posted:

I will say I have zero faith in the American electorate to acknowledge what's going on and punish the GOP for their obvious bad faith dealing. I imagine by April Fox will be full-throated "Bad bill! Good kill!"

Google Jeb Bush posted:

You may be shocked to hear this, but it is very stupid.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/863/text

Insofar as they cite anything about anything, it's that he didn't use his discretion to detain absolutely every unauthorized immigrant until review and instead pursued legally permissible alternatives to detention.

which was admittedly a substantial and public Biden admin reform effort that I've been touting as good-if-insufficient, so of course Republicans are extremely angry

Inglonias posted:

So I guess the lesson I take away from this whole immigration thing is that even when the Republicans win, they still lose? Or am I deluding myself and everything is still terrible?

Eric Cantonese posted:

I feel like "moderate" is the new "independent" as far as being the term of choice for GOP-leaning people who aren't total true believers.

This isn't based on anything in terms of hard data, though.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Do y’all seriously think that “left economically and racist” is some unicorn position? Need I remind you who FDR compromised with to pass the New Deal?

Eric Cantonese posted:

Did anyone actually know Peter Parker? But yeah, I guess no one was tempted to take a picture of his face and sell it.

Barrel Cactaur posted:

Doc Ock doesn't even wear a helmet, he could just get bricked at any time

Push El Burrito posted:

In the early comics Spider-Man would just thump him on the head once and he was out because he was just a regular dude with metal arms. It came back later because part of the reason he was dying was because he had so much trauma from fighting this superhuman dude all the time.

PeterWeller posted:

Batman may break some of my bones, but he's not gonna shoot me like some loving cop would.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Killer Croc tried to reform and there's a page of him being rejected from every interview possible


As someone also going through the job hunt, I get why he stayed a monster cannibal for so long

Professor Beetus posted:

There are obviously parallels to real world issues and there are attempts to address it but it's also very clearly a comic book universe in which there are just really bad people that need to be stopped by superheroes. It's an absurd reading of the comics to hold Bruce Wayne/Batman to the same moral calculus as if the comic book universe he resides in is exactly the same as our own. It's silly.

Sephyr posted:

Joker trying to stage some grandiose heist or attack and it all grinding to a halt because he can't get henchmen, what with all of his old crews being in decent jobs or school programs, would be a fun little story.

"What do you MEAN, wearing clown makeup and being punched by an expert in human pain for 7 bucks/hour is no longer good enough, Jake? I got you started in this industry, you ungrateful moocher!"

glitchwraith posted:

Ok, I'll bite. Gotham's corruption has been rooted out. Effective social programs have made poverty and major crimes rare to non-existent, and all super villains have been cured, reformed, or at least humanely separated from society. Gotham is in all senses of the word "fixed". What story do you tell now?

TheDisreputableDog posted:

I was being cheeky.

Anyway, Biden willfully took and distributed classified docs, huh?

Trevorrrrrrrrrrrrr posted:

AKA Pseudonym posted:

The commentary on his memory seems a bit gratuitous for a special counsel's report to me. Is this sort of thing typical?

Ms Adequate posted:

Oof, that's gonna kill him in the general

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Welp, nice country we had here

RBA Starblade posted:

Yeah, that looks written in a very pointed or misleading way, like with the debate described as "once so important to him".

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

He's legally correct and it isn't much up for debate. They gave Trump multiple years to turn the documents over.

Pence and Biden didn't get charged because they contacted the FBI and national archives to alert them that they found classified materials and turned them in. Trump lied multiple times, moved items, and then hid them during investigations. He didn't get in trouble for taking them, he got in trouble for lying about multiple times over 2 years and refusing to give them back.

Pence and Biden also had handwritten notes about classified material, whereas Trump physically took original documents.

Google Jeb Bush posted:

Linking the documents investigations to the ballot access question is pretty disingenuous. Stacking nuclear secrets next to the toilet isn't why Colorado is trying to boot Trump for treason. That's more about the part where he rallied a violent mob to try to murder Congresspeople and his Vice President until they were cowed into doing his bidding and abolishing democracy.

TheDisreputableDog posted:

The Stormshadow GI Joe comic remains one of the best ever.

Scags McDouglas posted:

Ya I was also going to ask about the landslide thing. He's going to be on every ballot still, cool. I truly doubt the SC is going to rule the same way on his immunity, and my cynical heart is black as coal.