President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

If anything can be easily sacrificed it’s free community college

 

OMFG

 

I did not realize you could catch HIV by someone breathing on you.

 

MTG has competition.

 

Wasn’t that debunked by, like, 1992 or something?

 

Trumpists aren't very well known for their embrace of $cience.

 

Did I need the blue font?

 

When Magic announced he had HIV, I bet most people in her clan were saying “he deserved it for living a gay and immoral life.”

 

Everyone knows you catch it from a toilet seat!

 

This tweet is Donald Sterling’s personal trolley car problem.

 

This woman is an interesting example of trend that has emerged in the last few years, or so it seems to me: hopeless "candidates" in looming House races posting all over Twitter, saying completely outlandish shit and/or posting immediately in their "opponent's" replies, seeking donations and attention.

It seems like it's grown into a lucrative little industry for a certain segment.

It's not all Qblicans either. A well-qualified potential opponent to Lauren Boebert was playing that game, I'm sure generating huge donations every time Boebert started trending for something stupid, so, ya know, once a week. And now she's very likely to be drawn out of Boebert's district. Oops. I don't think she was crazy or posting anything outlandish, but it did definitely feel like she was trying to surf the Twitter outrage wave.

This kook is a little different as she's trying to MAKE the outrage wave, and she's most certainly hopeless. She lost this same seat she's "running" for again 75-20 in 2020. She's definitely among a group of Twitter candidates who's entire existence is to troll in untouchable districts.

 

I'm not optimistic here. The GOP will fight like a pack of rabid badgers to keep Biden from accomplishing ANYTHING before the midterms. Therefore, they can run against every Democrat and yell and scream that Biden accomplished squat. Any little potential victory for the Biden administration, regardless of how good it is for the country or for people who need help, jobs, health, etc., is a loss for the GOP. They don't even care if their base benefits (example ... they're willing to let their constituents die if COVID because they're battling mask mandates, testing, vaccines ... anything that could quash the pandemic because by God, we can't let this thing go away on Biden's watch).
And to make sure they'll win the mid-terms, then the 2024 Presidential, they're passing every voter suppression method they can think of and failing that, they may just go back to 1951 and have pickup truckloads of MAGA-rats with ax handles at polling places turning blacks away.
Our only hope is for every purple state to find a Stacy Abrams to get the registration up and the voters out and their suppression tactics be damned. But I'm not counting on it.