April Politics

[timorousbeastie]

Apr 13, 2023 9:24:12 GMT -5 timorousbeastie said:

Some good news: Whitmer expands background checks, enacts safe storage with gun safety bills (some @@@ mentions in article)

www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/13/michigan-whitmer-gun-safety-bills-school-shooting/70041872007/

More good news: the Michigan House and Senate have now passed the Extreme Risk Protection Order (red flag law), so that’s one more gun safety bill for the governor to sign.
(It just passed the Senate, so I don’t have a news article to link yet, just a tweet)

ETA: www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/19/michigan-red-flag-bill-law-gun-safety/70129666007/

[NewOrleans]

The DeSantis shitshow rolls on.

A staggering 59% of all gas stations in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area were out of fuel at one point Tuesday, along with another 21% of gas stations in West Palm Beach

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/south-florida-no-gas-fuel-supply-issues-fort-lauderdale-miami/

But he’s been campaigning and on a book tour

While the heavily Democratic city of Fort Lauderdale was dealing with historic flooding Thursday morning, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was having breakfast with members of the Summit County, Ohio, Republican Party.

www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-desantis-ohio-fort-lauderdale-timeline-20230414-4xf4jh5u7vb5lmrwwkr5igpqzq-story.html

And his donors hate him

On a group chat of wealthy DeSantis donors, images of which were reviewed by Rolling Stone, participants exploded with alarm last week over the Florida governor’s presidential prospects — and his primary chances against Donald Trump.

“What the fuck is wrong with RD?” one participant wrote after DeSantis did not curtail his out-of-state publicity tour to return home amid massive flooding in the Fort Lauderdale area.

Another participant demanded to know who in the group could get in contact with DeSantis most quickly to complain.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ron-desantis-donors-donald-trump-uncertainty-1234716875/amp/

[mrsd2006]

Apr 19, 2023 19:51:56 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

The DeSantis shitshow rolls on.

A staggering 59% of all gas stations in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area were out of fuel at one point Tuesday, along with another 21% of gas stations in West Palm Beach

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/south-florida-no-gas-fuel-supply-issues-fort-lauderdale-miami/

But he’s been campaigning and on a book tour

While the heavily Democratic city of Fort Lauderdale was dealing with historic flooding Thursday morning, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was having breakfast with members of the Summit County, Ohio, Republican Party.

www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-desantis-ohio-fort-lauderdale-timeline-20230414-4xf4jh5u7vb5lmrwwkr5igpqzq-story.html

And his donors hate him

On a group chat of wealthy DeSantis donors, images of which were reviewed by Rolling Stone, participants exploded with alarm last week over the Florida governor’s presidential prospects — and his primary chances against Donald Trump.

“What the fuck is wrong with RD?” one participant wrote after DeSantis did not curtail his out-of-state publicity tour to return home amid massive flooding in the Fort Lauderdale area.

Another participant demanded to know who in the group could get in contact with DeSantis most quickly to complain.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ron-desantis-donors-donald-trump-uncertainty-1234716875/amp/

Related

news.yahoo.com/marco-rubio-roasted-complaining-unfixed-115024278.html

Gotta love AOC. 

[bronxgirl]

I love the idea of DeSantis self-destructing before even officially announcing his presidential bid. Whomever takes his place as GOP candidate will be equally loathsome, but he was particularly dangerous, smarmy, evil, etc. I'm dreading this whole process.

[seeyalater52]

Apr 20, 2023 10:10:29 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

I love the idea of DeSantis self-destructing before even officially announcing his presidential bid. Whomever takes his place as GOP candidate will be equally loathsome, but he was particularly dangerous, smarmy, evil, etc. I'm dreading this whole process.

I’m wary to count him out yet. I will be relieved if he flamed out though. Although he’s moved a lot of the other candidates and prospective candidates WAY off a fascist cliff competing with him so a lot of the damage may be done regardless.

[bronxgirl]

Apr 20, 2023 10:51:29 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Apr 20, 2023 10:10:29 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

I love the idea of DeSantis self-destructing before even officially announcing his presidential bid. Whomever takes his place as GOP candidate will be equally loathsome, but he was particularly dangerous, smarmy, evil, etc. I'm dreading this whole process.

I’m wary to count him out yet. I will be relieved if he flamed out though. Although he’s moved a lot of the other candidates and prospective candidates WAY off a fascist cliff competing with him so a lot of the damage may be done regardless.

Yes, anything can still happen, but he's not the sure bet he was once thought to be. I also enjoy watching him get smacked down.  But whomever it is, they will be awful and the whole process will be fucking awful. 

[cattledogkisses]

The GOP's latest voter suppression strategy is to try to restrict college students from voting.  A number of states are drafting legislation to prohibit the use of student IDs to vote, and to get rid of polling places on campuses. 

A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters, according to a copy of her presentation reviewed by The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/20/cleta-mitchell-voting-college-students/

[madDawg228]

Not sure if this needs it's own thread, but there was a recording of a southeast Oklahoma county commissioner meeting in which there was discussion of killing journalists and Black people

Oklahoma official who discussed killing reporters resigns

Reading the article, it seems there is some house cleaning in the Sheriff's office and county commissioner's offices, but there is a hell of a lot of corruption and other garbage I'm sure is still present in those leadership organizations.

[neverfstop]

Fuckers..... this basically means that ON election day, you can only vote at your 1 single voting place (that's closest to your home). Most people go throughout they day and vote at a more convenient time/place. He fully admits there's no evidence/reason to do this other than the guise of "voter security", which isn't a problem. They got rid of straight ticket voting a few years back & it took me like 216 clicks to vote last time....

Texas Senate moves to end countywide voting on Election Day
www.texastribune.org/2023/04/20/election-day-countywide-voting-texas-senate/

Opponents of the bill also argued that it would strip Texans of a convenient way of voting. Seventy percent of the state’s voters cast their ballots at a countywide polling location in the November 2022 election cycle, said Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin.

[AAM2012]

“We will build a wall” crowd fund guys sentenced to jail.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bannon-allies-sentenced-prison-build-wall-scheme-rcna81620

[neverfstop]

Cause we need a laugh around here...some jokes from the big WHCD last night (per Axios)

President Biden (full remarks here):

"In many ways, this dinner sums up my first years in office: I'll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions and cheerfully walk away."
"Call me old. I call it being 'seasoned.' You say I'm ancient. I say I'm wise. You say I'm over the hill. Don Lemon would say that's a man in his prime."
"I want everybody to have fun tonight — but please be safe. If you find yourself disoriented or confused, either you're drunk ... or Marjorie Taylor Greene."
"I had a lot of Ron DeSantis jokes ready — but Mickey Mouse beat me to it."


Roy Wood Jr. of "The Daily Show" (full remarks here):

"Ya'll look good, you're dressed nice, you got the nice threads on, you got the jewelry glistening. Looks like everybody got a piece of that settlement money from Fox News."
"To Tucker's staff, I want you to know I know what you're feeling. I work at 'The Daily Show' — so I, too, have been blindsided by the sudden departure of the host of a fake news program."
"Mr. President, I think you left some of your classified documents up here. Don't give them to him, I’ll put them in a safe place. He don’t know where to keep them."
"Keeping up with Trump scandals is like watching 'Star Wars' movies: You've got to watch the third one to understand the first one. Then you can't miss the second one because it's got Easter eggs for the fifth one. Donald Trump is the only politician whose scandals got spinoffs on Disney Plus."
"Just when you think of everything you could buy on earth, billionaires come up with a new thing. Ya'll buy space rockets, you bought Twitter, this man bought a Supreme Court justice. Do you understand how rich you have to buy a Supreme — a black one on top of that?! There's only two in stock."

[neverfstop]

Also, there was a state dinner honoring south Korea & it looked lovely.....yea for normal!