The Politics Thread

1 hour ago, j swift said:

This time, let's not allow ourselves to be distracted by cultural debates. Let's remember that an assassin was able to make a ghost gun, on his 3d printer, at home, because the GOP refused to regulate the practice. Regardless of motive, that feels totally preventable.

That's just plum crazy. What kind of idiots want ghost guns out there? I imagine this particular shooter could have come up with a gun another way, but why make it easier for people who are actually smart to make a gun without a serial number? I wonder why he didn't dump the gun? This is going to be an interesting case when the facts come out.

much as i loathe the health care industrial complex, i’m with vanessa friedman regarding the sexual objectification of the shooter: 

“But in all the hoo-ha over hotness — and, potentially, the way such stories often get rewritten and recreated by history — what gets lost is the violence, as well as the victims.”

here’s the free link: 

luigi mangione

 jimmy kimmel went into even more detail:

jimmy kimmel outs his staff

 

Watching people discover that John Fetterman is a clown with no principles is kind of enjoyable.

https://x.com/TommyInPA/status/1866912041950384631

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https://deadline.com/2024/12/trump-kari-lake-voice-of-america-1236201457/

At this point Nancy Mace is basically a soap opera psycho

https://newrepublic.com/post/189258/nancy-mace-attack-transgender-activist-truth

She lied and said an advocate for transgender people attacked her, but all he did is shake her hand. At this point she's probably going to throw herself down the stairs next and blame a Democrat (like Annie did to Reva on Guiding Light).

4 hours ago, ReddFoxx said:

At this point Nancy Mace is basically a soap opera psycho

https://newrepublic.com/post/189258/nancy-mace-attack-transgender-activist-truth

She lied and said an advocate for transgender people attacked her, but all he did is shake her hand. At this point she's probably going to throw herself down the stairs next and blame a Democrat (like Annie did to Reva on Guiding Light).

She's always been like this. She claimed that Antifa defaced her home.

As always, many transphobes are rushing in to deify her, so she will just get worse and worse.

5 hours ago, ReddFoxx said:

At this point Nancy Mace is basically a soap opera psycho

https://newrepublic.com/post/189258/nancy-mace-attack-transgender-activist-truth

She lied and said an advocate for transgender people attacked her, but all he did is shake her hand. At this point she's probably going to throw herself down the stairs next and blame a Democrat (like Annie did to Reva on Guiding Light).

She's trying to out-crazy Marjorie. (Love the GL reference, BTW, lol) 

I've noticed this thread has been much quieter lately. I guess we really have taken a step back from the daily crazy that is our current political climate, for the sake of our own sanity. 

27 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:

I've noticed this thread has been much quieter lately. I guess we really have taken a step back from the daily crazy that is our current political climate, for the sake of our own sanity. 

I haven't checked out from politics entirely, but I don't feel the need to follow and/or react to every move that the incoming administration makes either.  I just don't see the point.

4 hours ago, DRW50 said:

She's always been like this. She claimed that Antifa defaced her home.

As always, many transphobes are rushing in to deify her, so she will just get worse and worse.

Most likely she did that herself. No police report and the writing was clearly her own.

4 hours ago, Gray Bunny said:

She's trying to out-crazy Marjorie. (Love the GL reference, BTW, lol) 

I've noticed this thread has been much quieter lately. I guess we really have taken a step back from the daily crazy that is our current political climate, for the sake of our own sanity. 

I think she actually might be actually have some mental health problems. Marjorie is crazy but in an intentional, extremist way but Mace seems to be spiraling.

10 hours ago, ReddFoxx said:

I think she actually might be actually have some mental health problems.

She's clearly mentally ill and quite dangerous. She repeatedly claims to be the victim of crimes in order to get attention. She is a conscienceless sociopath who's just looking for her own personal Emmett Till to frame. Even her own former staffers - of which there are many -  say she's an utter psycho.

The irony is that if she's ever really the victim of a crime nobody will believe her.

 

15 hours ago, Khan said:

I haven't checked out from politics entirely, but I don't feel the need to follow and/or react to every move that the incoming administration makes either.  I just don't see the point.

Same. The press wanted this monster back in office for clicks. By checking out I protect my peace *and* deny them engagement. I've checked out of national politics for the most part. Every success of the Biden administration just reminds me what's been taken from us and it enrages me meanwhile I refuse to give the Trump reality show any time or attention because we know what to expect.

As for the Democratic Party, I'm out. I'm sitting on the sidelines and waiting for Jaime Harrison's tell-all book. I'm trying to get more involved with local politics but my city council is an absolute clown show right now and I don't have the energy for it.

 

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6 hours ago, marceline said:

I'm trying to get more involved with local politics but my city council is an absolute clown show right now and I don't have the energy for it.

It's the same where I live, and it has been for much of my life, too.  As I've said in the past, the rest of the country is about to learn what it's like to live in Oklahoma, lol.

Rep. Jennifer Wexton, who had to retire from Congress due to being diagnosed with PSP, gave her farewell speech today.

 

I know the heartbreak of dementia (as do many others!), but this is also why I believe there should be term limits in Congress. The stakes are too important:

AWOL Congresswoman found in memory-care facility.

 

Yikes. This is about to spark an all-out war amongst the GOP. Gaetz is going to wage a war. Oh well. May they implode. 

 

MATT GAETZ ETHICS REPORT

🚨 Matt Gaetz, Trump’s former AG nominee, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office. pic.twitter.com/YlTHoBMKnE

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) December 23, 2024

Happy New Year, everybody. I hope everyone had a peaceful, healthy holiday. Looks like Congress is kicking the year off with plenty of dysfunction and yet, I can't bring myself to care.