November Political Whatsits

[neverfstop]

Nov 13, 2023 9:28:41 GMT -5 Pom said:

Nov 8, 2023 14:06:13 GMT -5 fernweh said:

This is pissing me off.

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The Michigan Republican Party is suing to overturn abortion rights declaring it unconstitutional.

We voted on this last year. I’m passed! The voters have spoken, now shut up and do your job. I hope they all lose their seats when up for reelection.

www.yahoo.com/news/life-gop-lawmakers-sue-over-180255830.html

Now Ohio too. If they can’t win, they run around like sore losers, planning to subvert the will of voters. Assholes.

The good thing about this is that it drives Dem turnout....I'm almost wanting them to try again & help support all the down-ballot races. 

[pixy0stix]

McCarthy hard elbowed a colleague today - www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212912482/mccarthy-burchett-elbow-house-republicans

[pixy0stix]

www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/stand-butt-fistfight-nearly-breaks-senate-hearing-bernie-sanders-steps-rcna125140

Bernie had to break up an almost fistfight.

The Rs are wilding out y'all.

[bugandbibs]

Nov 14, 2023 18:15:47 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/stand-butt-fistfight-nearly-breaks-senate-hearing-bernie-sanders-steps-rcna125140

Bernie had to break up an almost fistfight.

The Rs are wilding out y'all.

This is wild. In the middle of a congressional hearing and you’re challenging someone to a fist fight? Do they want to become the next Aaron Burr?

[seeyalater52]

Nov 14, 2023 18:15:47 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/stand-butt-fistfight-nearly-breaks-senate-hearing-bernie-sanders-steps-rcna125140

Bernie had to break up an almost fistfight.

The Rs are wilding out y'all.

I kinda wish Bernie had let them do it. America needs the win, honestly.

[mrsd2006]

www.politico.com/news/2023/11/14/pelosi-depape-explanation-trial-00127122

Paul Pelosi's attacker is on trial now.

The man who broke into former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and struck her 83-year-old husband with a hammer provided jurors Tuesday with a bizarre and rambling explanation for an act of political violence that could land him in prison for decades.

David DePape said he planned to wear a unicorn costume he brought to the home that night and use the hammer to interrogate her about what he believed were government-backed plots against former President Donald Trump and other matters.


“I wanted to use her to expose the truth,” said DePape, who at times appeared so emotional that he couldn’t speak. “If she lied, I would break her kneecaps.”

Another interesting take from the defense:

www.politico.com/news/2023/11/15/paul-pelosi-jan-6-riot-00127267

Now, facing trial a year later, the 43-year-old Canadian’s lawyers are trying to beat serious felony charges on a technicality — arguing that he wasn’t interfering with Pelosi’s role in Congress when he broke into the couple’s home demanding to know “Where’s Nancy?” and striking her elderly husband in the head with a hammer.

[picksthemusic]

I have no words for that. None.

[mrsd2006]

www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-calls-jared-moskowtiz-a-smurf-in-meltdown-over-daily-beast-report

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) lashed out Tuesday after a Democratic colleague asked him about his family’s finances, snarling that the other lawmaker looked like “a Smurf.”

The lame insult came at the end of a fiery exchange with Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), who challenged Comer in the midst of a hearing on the U.S. General Services Administration by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Referencing Comer’s crusade to probe the Biden family’s business practices, including an alleged loan from President Joe Biden to his brother that Comer has implied is evidence of wrongdoing, Moskowitz asked if Comer wanted to address a report that “you also do business with your brother with potential loans.”


The Florida Democrat was referring to The Daily Beast’s exclusive report last week that Comer allegedly engaged in some questionable land swaps with his brother, funneling “extra money” to him via a shell company, in the form of a $218,000 payment for a property they’d inherited from their father. (The story, contrary to Moskowitz’s telling, does not allege that Comer gave his brother a “loan.”)

[mrsd2006]

This is awesome.

www.yahoo.com/news/far-gop-lawmakers-republicans-backfires-044243121.html

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) put his own party on blast during a fiery speech on the House floor on Wednesday that included a blunt challenge for his Republican colleagues.

“One thing! I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing ― one! ― that I can go campaign on and say we did,” he said. “One! Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, ‘Well, I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats.’”

[fernweh]

George Santos will not seek re-election

apple.news/AuY3iTg10RaOJK-8uvFxlGA

[AAM2012]

Nov 16, 2023 14:03:56 GMT -5 fernweh said:

George Santos will not seek re-election

apple.news/AuY3iTg10RaOJK-8uvFxlGA

Hopefully it’s because he’s in jail….

[basilosaurus]

Tuberville is still blocking promotions. The latest gambit was Rs reading stories of sacrifice and heroism from midnight til like 4am, hoping apparently to wear him down. No-go. And apparently he now has Mike Lee as an ally.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-senators-latest-effort-end-tubervilles-military-nominee/story?id=104941563#: