American Politics

[TheHowieLama]

 

 

 

In the comments:

 

"I've seen bigger lines at a Starbuck's restroom."

[Gnasher]

[Kepler-186]

Charles Eugene "Chip" Roy is a massive Texan. 
 

Texas officials block US border agents from helping three drowning migrants. 
 

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/14/texas-three-migrants-drown-us-border-patrol

 

[Kepler-186]

Dr. Ben Carson Tells Iowa Crowd That America’s History of Slavery Is ‘Nothing to be Ashamed of’ As He Campaigns for Donald Trump

 

Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, suggested that slavery should not be a source of shame for America and dismissed the idea of the existence of systemic racism while campaigning for Donald Trump on Thursday.

During an event in Iowa, Carson downplayed the significance of slavery in American history, emphasizing that various societies throughout history have grappled with the issue.

 

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/01/12/ben-carson-says-slavery-is-nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-as-he-campaigns-for-donald-trump/

[Kepler-186]

Big “scared of books” Ron DeSantis defeats girl boss drone strike enthusiast Haley but there can only one. Second place is for losers. 
 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

In a race seen as a bellwether for Democratic chances in November, Democrat Tom Keen flipped what had been a Republican state House seat in Central Florida in a special election held Tuesday.

[TheHowieLama]

Nikki Haley saying America was never a racist country (  "I know, I faced racism when I was growing up but I can tell you today is a lot better than it was then.”) while using an Anglicized name and getting "birthered" 

 

-- chef's kiss

[Gnasher]

CEO of JP Morgan  'Trump was right about Nato'  hmm, was he? 

 

 

 

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

 

[TheHowieLama]

 

 

 

[Mudface]

21 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

 

 

He's right, we need more of this.

 

https://twitter.com/Kaylan_TX/status/1702787403881087087

 

[Gnasher]

New leader of the Texas Rangers. He's promised to stop the immigrants then march on the Whitehouse. 

 

 

 

His face looks familiar.

[Gnasher]

 

Thought I recognised him. So he didn't die after all. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gnasher]

Us and the Yanks are good on these sanctions. Played another blinder here.

 

 

We're too smart for them foreigners.

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Just in the last few days - America:

 

Former presidential candidate and MAGA blowhard Vivek Ramaswamy said on Monday that he wondered “who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” adding, “I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.” 

 

Trump sycophant Laura Loomer wrote that “the Democrats’ Taylor Swift election interference psyop is happening in the open… They are going to use Taylor Swift as the poster child for their pro-abortion GOTV Campaign.” 

 

Far-right influencer Rogan O’Handley went so far as to suggest that if the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, Swift and Kelce would trigger an apocalyptic chain of events that would kill millions. “You MUST defeat the Chiefs,” O’Handley wrote in an X post addressed to the San Francisco 49ers. “If you don’t, Mr. Pfizer and his girlfriend are going to tour the country as ‘world champions’ helping elect Joe Biden WW3 will likely follow in a 2nd Biden term and millions will die. The fate of the free world rests upon your shoulders”  

 

Failed GOP candidate Jack Lombardi II wrote that he has “never been more convinced that the Super Bowl is rigged. With all the unneeded and unwanted Taylor coverage at the games. KC’s journey to the Superbowl – totally scripted … KC wins. And then later [they announce] their support for Biden. Coincidental?  No. Bought and paid for couple.  SMH.” 

 

“Taylor Swift is nothing more than a controlled influencer who has been put to work by those who seek to destroy America,” Lombardi added. “She is a very talented operative working for the same group responsible for the timely and coincidental covid-19.”

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Christ. Some fella has chopped his dad’s head off and held it up on a YouTube video rant against Biden, claiming he’s the real president of the United States no under martial law. He’s white so clearly not a terror attack, more a misunderstanding with his meds or something I assume. Poor lad 
 

 

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/us-man-beheads-father-displays-decapitated-head-protest-biden/

 

 

[ZonkoVille77]

15 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Christ. Some fella has chopped his dad’s head off and held it up on a YouTube video rant against Biden, claiming he’s the real president of the United States no under martial law. He’s white so clearly not a terror attack, more a misunderstanding with his meds or something I assume. Poor lad 
 

 

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/us-man-beheads-father-displays-decapitated-head-protest-biden/

 

 

 

Fucking hell. 

[Captain Turdseye]

That’s on Crooked Joe, for me. 
 

Wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t stole the election. 

[Anubis]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

…more a misunderstanding with his meds or something I assume. Poor lad 
 

 

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/us-man-beheads-father-displays-decapitated-head-protest-biden/

 

 

Looks more like a standard Trump supporter.

 

I might send that link to my dad and suggest he needs to be nicer to me.

[Kevin D]

 

[TheHowieLama]

Ah, well, do you DENOUNCE the Chinese Communist Party??!!

[TheHowieLama]

The richest man in the world on immigation:

 

 

 

The two GOP frontrunners - both immigrants (one is first generation) using anglicized names (one genuinely changing her birth name because of - erm, well, certainly not racism) both, "building the wall."

[Kepler-186]

[TheHowieLama]

Your boys took a hell of a beating Turdseye - a hell of a self administered beating (is that a euphemism)

 

Once Mike Johnson’s speakership was merely implausible. Now it looks incompetent.

The rookie Republican leader – already struggling to wield a tiny, extreme and malfunctioning majority – suffered a spectacular embarrassment on Tuesday night in a failed vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The drama undermined what was already a questionable case for impeachment – more over policy disagreements than the constitutional standard of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors.

 

And it told a story of a House in utter disarray.

Setting up a high-stakes, televised tour de force for the impeachment of a Cabinet official for only the second time in history was a daring act. But failing to actually pull it off by a couple of votes broke the cardinal rule of not putting a bill on the floor until the numbers are rock solid.

The result was a debacle that made the House leadership a laughing stock.

The failure played into the hands of a White House that delights in portraying Johnson’s majority as an engine for Donald Trump's political stunts more than a serious governing force. And it raised serious doubts over the GOP’s capacity to pull off another politized maneuver designed to please the former president – an impeachment of President Joe Biden.

The malpractice of Johnson’s impeachment team was encapsulated by Democrats outmaneuvering them to bring a shoeless Rep. Al Green, who was recovering from surgery, to the chamber in a wheelchair to cast a dramatic vote.

Moments after the Mayorkas impeachment failed, Johnson was also unable to pass a standalone bill containing billions of dollars in aid for Israel. It was another busted gambit to jam the Biden administration.

[TheHowieLama]

The ex-president asked the Supreme Court to step in to temporarily block a US Court of Appeals decision that last week eviscerated his claims that a president is effectively above the law while in office and shielded from prosecution afterwards.

The filing is Trumpian in its audacity.

In essence, it argues that it would be unfair to millions of voters if the ex-President cannot get his message out in the 2024 election because he is on trial over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The former president was less concerned about the rights of voters when he sought to thwart their choice to eject him from office in 2020. After an unprecedented effort by Trump to interrupt the cherished tradition of peaceful transfers of power three years ago, Trump’s attorneys nevertheless insist the real “stunning breach of precedent and historical norms” is that the lower court ruled that presidential immunity for official acts does not exist at all. While Trump argues he was using presidential power in a legitimate effort to bring to light electoral fraud, there is nothing in the Constitution that gives the president the right or duty to officially administer elections, count votes or contact local election officials as the ex-president is alleged to have done.