President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I mean, I hear ya' and I respect that you're not one of the crazies.

But you tell me: How is the GOP going to take its party back from the nutcases?

 

The only way is consecutive bad electoral losses. Which, thanks to GOP gerrymandering, we aren’t likely to see for at least a decade. Something to look forward to for everyone.

And Alma can keep claiming he’s not a conservative, as none of his rights are being slowly eroded.

Good times.

 

One suggestion would be to stop trying to play off the attack on Pelosi as the result of mental illness while refusing to acknowledge the role narratives being pushed by Republicans played in such behavior.

 

Upstate New York is much Trumpier than people think. Especially with a Stefanik to rally around.

How a G.O.P. Star Is Trying to Push Left-Leaning New York Toward Trump

“We are seeing the results of one-party Democrat rule both in Albany and in Washington, and it has created crisis, after crisis, after crisis,” Ms. Stefanik said, with her lines of attacks on the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats drawing the most applause.

“The bad ideas that start in Albany, often times they percolate to Washington,” she added.

Ms. Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican Conference, is at the forefront of a push for her party to regain control of Congress, and she believes that New York — perennially a Democratic state — can lead the way. She predicts that Republicans will win 15 of the state’s 26 House seats.

 

How many hours a day does Kari Lake spend in the tanning bed? I'm not sure you can get that coloring naturally, even in Arizona.

 

I am a conservative in some ways. In other ways, not. But that's been true of a lot of long-time Democrats and independents.

I'm consistently trying to figure out where progressives think it's OK to not be progressive, and still be accepted as a rational being.

 

One of the truths of our new politics, I think, is how we use and define words like 'conservative' and 'progressive.'

Both of 'em seem pretty spongy to me in the current moment.

 

Lake n'Bake

 

Roberts delays handover of Trump tax returns to House panel

There will be no consequences.

 

Not to speak for Doc, but I suspect he’s in the position of the Air Force colonel from Wargames. “I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it would help.”

None of us have the secret for short-circuiting this kind of crazy. And we’re scared shitless about it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t go about our lives in the meantime.