Actual real headline that is actually real: "MATT GAETZ UPGRADED FROM JUST F--KED TO ROYALLY F--KED"
There are some caveats to a few things: from the publicly available information he's not actually on the hook for having sex with anyone under 18 (yet), but he's all kinds of tied up in getting fake IDs and political cover for them.
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Yeah, while the public will of New Yorkers might not be there to get rid of Cuomo. It's pretty clear the piece of shit had aspirations beyond being a governor and those are pretty fucking dead now. Where with the GOP, if you aren't forced to resign in disgrace, then you can still keep going up the ladder. That's the big issue with the GOP's silence about their members that do really shitty things, it's essentially condoning the behavior without giving it loud applause.
Yeah, while the public will of New Yorkers might not be there to get rid of Cuomo. It's pretty clear the piece of shit had aspirations beyond being a governor and those are pretty fucking dead now. Where with the GOP, if you aren't forced to resign in disgrace, then you can still keep going up the ladder. That's the big issue with the GOP's silence about their members that do really shitty things, it's essentially condoning the behavior without giving it loud applause.
The impeachment investigation etc are still ongoing, he's just being a shit and not resigning.
EDIT: The commission in charge of that is meeting this Wed. in fact. Attorney General indicated that her investigation would be on the timeframe of months, not weeks. This is gonna take some time.
Yeah, while the public will of New Yorkers might not be there to get rid of Cuomo. It's pretty clear the piece of shit had aspirations beyond being a governor and those are pretty fucking dead now. Where with the GOP, if you aren't forced to resign in disgrace, then you can still keep going up the ladder. That's the big issue with the GOP's silence about their members that do really shitty things, it's essentially condoning the behavior without giving it loud applause.
Also, there's no conservative welfare equivalent for most disgraced Democrats. Book deals, product spokesperson, thinktanking, speaking engagements, paid television appearances, radio/podcasts. It's pretty bare outside of maybe a single tell-all.
Gaetz could leave office today, and make more money at that shit this year, than he has in salary* as a Congressperson for the last four years.
* I'm obviously not talking about the various kickbacks, bribes, and other extracurricular funding he's gotten over that time.
Yeah, while the public will of New Yorkers might not be there to get rid of Cuomo. It's pretty clear the piece of shit had aspirations beyond being a governor and those are pretty fucking dead now.
Mmm, I'd say his presidential ambitions were doomed when he openly worked to preserve the Republican NY Senate majority.
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Boy howdy do i hate fuckin white supremacists fuckin up norse shit
There's a game you have to play every time you listen to a metal band that has any sort of norse shit in it.
"Do these guys really like Thor or are they fuckin skinheads"
It is exhausting
That's basically Youtube for me. Every new youtuber I watch I'm just expecting to secretly be a ticking timebomb of bigotry.
Yeah combine that with having a 5yo child that likes watching stuff on YouTube and having to monitor every channel he watches to make sure that kinda stuff doesn’t rear it’s head.
Boy howdy do i hate fuckin white supremacists fuckin up norse shit
There's a game you have to play every time you listen to a metal band that has any sort of norse shit in it.
"Do these guys really like Thor or are they fuckin skinheads"
It is exhausting
That's basically Youtube for me. Every new youtuber I watch I'm just expecting to secretly be a ticking timebomb of bigotry.
Yeah combine that with having a 5yo child that likes watching stuff on YouTube and having to monitor every channel he watches to make sure that kinda stuff doesn’t rear it’s head.
We setup YouTube Kids on the tv and I’ve had to go through and block so many channels on the parental control app. I can’t explain it but I just don’t want them watching channels that are nothing but opening toys.
Boy howdy do i hate fuckin white supremacists fuckin up norse shit
There's a game you have to play every time you listen to a metal band that has any sort of norse shit in it.
"Do these guys really like Thor or are they fuckin skinheads"
It is exhausting
That's basically Youtube for me. Every new youtuber I watch I'm just expecting to secretly be a ticking timebomb of bigotry.
Yeah combine that with having a 5yo child that likes watching stuff on YouTube and having to monitor every channel he watches to make sure that kinda stuff doesn’t rear it’s head.
We setup YouTube Kids on the tv and I’ve had to go through and block so many channels on the parental control app. I can’t explain it but I just don’t want them watching channels that are nothing but opening toys.
It's babies first dopamine hit
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Kinzinger is kind of a special case. But Greene admitted the Klan Kaucus will not be happening. And blamed the reporters for blowing it up before it could really exist.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
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Yeah, while the public will of New Yorkers might not be there to get rid of Cuomo. It's pretty clear the piece of shit had aspirations beyond being a governor and those are pretty fucking dead now.
Mmm, I'd say his presidential ambitions were doomed when he openly worked to preserve the Republican NY Senate majority.
To be fair, it probably actually died when he became governor
Yeah, while the public will of New Yorkers might not be there to get rid of Cuomo. It's pretty clear the piece of shit had aspirations beyond being a governor and those are pretty fucking dead now.
Mmm, I'd say his presidential ambitions were doomed when he openly worked to preserve the Republican NY Senate majority.
To be fair, it probably actually died when he became governor
Not in his head. He was thinking he was coming out of this COVID/Trump-Fight cycle as a strong contender for post-Biden.
I mean, given who the presidential candidates have been over the past 8 years, Cuomo probably had a decent shot in 2024 prior to the sex scandal stuff. But I guess this isn't related to congress.
Apparently Alaska Rep. Don Young (of "holding a knife to Boehner's throat claim") came out in support of PR statehood, but I was shocked to discover this isn't a new position and Young actually is the only member of congress to successfully get a PR statehood bill through the House.
Young even goes on to say
“I have some opposition on my side about, ‘they’ll all be Democrats.’ They said the same thing about Alaska and now we’re all Republicans,” Young said. “So, everybody has the right to decide what they’re going to be, but don’t pre-think what they’re going to be because it doesn’t work out that way.”
That is probably the most mature statement I've seen a Republican make in a long, long time.
I mean, given who the presidential candidates have been over the past 8 years, Cuomo probably had a decent shot in 2024 prior to the sex scandal stuff. But I guess this isn't related to congress.
Apparently Alaska Rep. Don Young (of "holding a knife to Boehner's throat claim") came out in support of PR statehood, but I was shocked to discover this isn't a new position and Young actually is the only member of congress to successfully get a PR statehood bill through the House.
Young even goes on to say
“I have some opposition on my side about, ‘they’ll all be Democrats.’ They said the same thing about Alaska and now we’re all Republicans,” Young said. “So, everybody has the right to decide what they’re going to be, but don’t pre-think what they’re going to be because it doesn’t work out that way.”
That is probably the most mature statement I've seen a Republican make in a long, long time.
Alaska is special, and was actually a territory in living memory. Including his own. He'd have been ~26 when they became a State. Thinking that Territories are nonsense holdovers of imperialism is basically a 'Conservative mugged by reality' thing for him.
Well you know what they say about broken clocks... he's also right, there's no particular reason to assume they'd vote Democrat, culturally they're closer to conservatives in many ways. Either way is no reason to oppose their statehood, regardless. Unfortunately I still think it's DOA as long as the filibuster remains intact.
there was no solid reason to assume they'd vote Democrat before Donald Trump built a pipeline of shit to them so that he could spray sewage on the island round the clock
Didn't a lot of the PR refugees who ended up in Florida end up voting for the full basket of deplorables?
Which, if it is the case, while disappointing, is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
That the people of Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and the other territories get no representation, is a civic failure.
Heck, if Republicans had proposed first, that the residential areas of D.C. be absorbed by the surrounding states (leaving only government/public buildongs and associated parklands), I'd have been on board with that too.
Not any more, because fuck 'em for being constant pricks, for decades on the issue. They don’t deserve a consolation prize.
Didn't a lot of the PR refugees who ended up in Florida end up voting for the full basket of deplorables?
Which, if it is the case, while disappointing, is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
That the people of Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and the other territories get no representation, is a civic failure.
Heck, if Republicans had proposed forst, that the residential areas of D.C. be absorbed by the surrounding states (leaving only government/public buildongs and associated parklands), I'd have been on board with that too.
Not any more, because fuck 'em for being constant pricks, for decades on the issue. They don’t deserve a consolation prize.
Exactly.
It doesn't matter who they vote for. At all.
At this point they want to become a state? They get to become a state and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
Especially if it's out of the bullshit sports team mentality our political discourse has devolved into.
They get to become a state with full representation because it's the right thing and I don't care if they vote en masse for Galactus to consume the Earth.
No one should get to deny them statehood because they might not vote for the party they want.
Didn't a lot of the PR refugees who ended up in Florida end up voting for the full basket of deplorables?
They voted Republican at a higher rate than previously but still overwhelmingly Democrat. It was a gain from like 20% to 30%.
A lot of this was because Flordia Republicans actually did a pretty good post-Maria while the Florida Democratic Party is a dumpster fire that can't get out of their own way.
There is also that people with the means to leave PR and move to Florida are going to trend wealthier, which i would expect means more Republican than average.
Either way though, no excuse for PR not to be a state.
Didn't a lot of the PR refugees who ended up in Florida end up voting for the full basket of deplorables?
Which, if it is the case, while disappointing, is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
That the people of Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and the other territories get no representation, is a civic failure.
Heck, if Republicans had proposed forst, that the residential areas of D.C. be absorbed by the surrounding states (leaving only government/public buildongs and associated parklands), I'd have been on board with that too.
Not any more, because fuck 'em for being constant pricks, for decades on the issue. They don’t deserve a consolation prize.
Exactly.
It doesn't matter who they vote for. At all.
At this point they want to become a state? They get to become a state and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
Especially if it's out of the bullshit sports team mentality our political discourse has devolved into.
They get to become a state with full representation because it's the right thing and I don't care if they vote en masse for Galactus to consume the Earth.
No one should get to deny them statehood because they might not vote for the party they want.
Definitely, but also our pastime of fighting over admitting new states due to how it might change the balance of power is nearly as old as the constitution itself
there was no solid reason to assume they'd vote Democrat before Donald Trump built a pipeline of shit to them so that he could spray sewage on the island round the clock
But they're brown, override.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
Didn't a lot of the PR refugees who ended up in Florida end up voting for the full basket of deplorables?
Which, if it is the case, while disappointing, is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
That the people of Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and the other territories get no representation, is a civic failure.
Heck, if Republicans had proposed forst, that the residential areas of D.C. be absorbed by the surrounding states (leaving only government/public buildongs and associated parklands), I'd have been on board with that too.
Not any more, because fuck 'em for being constant pricks, for decades on the issue. They don’t deserve a consolation prize.
Exactly.
It doesn't matter who they vote for. At all.
At this point they want to become a state? They get to become a state and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
Especially if it's out of the bullshit sports team mentality our political discourse has devolved into.
They get to become a state with full representation because it's the right thing and I don't care if they vote en masse for Galactus to consume the Earth.
No one should get to deny them statehood because they might not vote for the party they want.
Definitely, but also our pastime of fighting over admitting new states due to how it might change the balance of power is nearly as old as the constitution itself
Isn't that the reason that there are two Dakota's?
What I'm hearing is "let's turn DC into 7 states".
Fuck court packing, let's do some state packing.
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Going off of 2019 numbers, D.C. would place above #50 Wyoming and #49 Vermont: 700K vs 580K and 625K respectively. Puerto Rico clocked in at 3.19M, putting it between #31 Iowa at 3.15M and #30 Utah at 3.2M.
What I'm hearing is "let's turn DC into 7 states".
Fuck court packing, let's do some state packing.
That is basically what happened with a lot of states in the west
Sure, you can come up with arguments about why we need two Dakotas, but I refuse to believe anybody believes them
Also, if you ask anyone in the Dakotas they'd tell you it makes more sense to have East and West Dakota split by the Missouri river than having North and South Dakota with a random straight line.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-investigators
Actual real headline that is actually real: "MATT GAETZ UPGRADED FROM JUST F--KED TO ROYALLY F--KED"
There are some caveats to a few things: from the publicly available information he's not actually on the hook for having sex with anyone under 18 (yet), but he's all kinds of tied up in getting fake IDs and political cover for them.
Bess has been on fire the last few months with her Head/Leadlines. Another good one from this week:
Jim Jordan Trips Over His Own Asshole Trying to Debate Anthony Fauci
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
The impeachment investigation etc are still ongoing, he's just being a shit and not resigning.
EDIT: The commission in charge of that is meeting this Wed. in fact. Attorney General indicated that her investigation would be on the timeframe of months, not weeks. This is gonna take some time.
Also, there's no conservative welfare equivalent for most disgraced Democrats. Book deals, product spokesperson, thinktanking, speaking engagements, paid television appearances, radio/podcasts. It's pretty bare outside of maybe a single tell-all.
Gaetz could leave office today, and make more money at that shit this year, than he has in salary* as a Congressperson for the last four years.
* I'm obviously not talking about the various kickbacks, bribes, and other extracurricular funding he's gotten over that time.
There's a game you have to play every time you listen to a metal band that has any sort of norse shit in it.
"Do these guys really like Thor or are they fuckin skinheads"
It is exhausting
That's basically Youtube for me. Every new youtuber I watch I'm just expecting to secretly be a ticking timebomb of bigotry.
Yeah combine that with having a 5yo child that likes watching stuff on YouTube and having to monitor every channel he watches to make sure that kinda stuff doesn’t rear it’s head.
We setup YouTube Kids on the tv and I’ve had to go through and block so many channels on the parental control app. I can’t explain it but I just don’t want them watching channels that are nothing but opening toys.
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Even other Republicans (R-Illinois) aren't on board with the KKK-caucus.
Like, actually speaking out against it on their own. Might have actually pushed across the line finally.
To be fair, it probably actually died when he became governor
Not in his head. He was thinking he was coming out of this COVID/Trump-Fight cycle as a strong contender for post-Biden.
Hell, he probably still does.
Apparently Alaska Rep. Don Young (of "holding a knife to Boehner's throat claim") came out in support of PR statehood, but I was shocked to discover this isn't a new position and Young actually is the only member of congress to successfully get a PR statehood bill through the House.
Young even goes on to say
“I have some opposition on my side about, ‘they’ll all be Democrats.’ They said the same thing about Alaska and now we’re all Republicans,” Young said. “So, everybody has the right to decide what they’re going to be, but don’t pre-think what they’re going to be because it doesn’t work out that way.”
That is probably the most mature statement I've seen a Republican make in a long, long time.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/alaska-gop-lawmaker-advocates-for-puerto-rico-statehood/
Dude is 87. Pre-think might have been all the rage back in the 50's.
Alaska is special, and was actually a territory in living memory. Including his own. He'd have been ~26 when they became a State. Thinking that Territories are nonsense holdovers of imperialism is basically a 'Conservative mugged by reality' thing for him.
Which, if it is the case, while disappointing, is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
That the people of Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and the other territories get no representation, is a civic failure.
Heck, if Republicans had proposed first, that the residential areas of D.C. be absorbed by the surrounding states (leaving only government/public buildongs and associated parklands), I'd have been on board with that too.
Not any more, because fuck 'em for being constant pricks, for decades on the issue. They don’t deserve a consolation prize.
Exactly.
It doesn't matter who they vote for. At all.
At this point they want to become a state? They get to become a state and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
Especially if it's out of the bullshit sports team mentality our political discourse has devolved into.
They get to become a state with full representation because it's the right thing and I don't care if they vote en masse for Galactus to consume the Earth.
No one should get to deny them statehood because they might not vote for the party they want.
They voted Republican at a higher rate than previously but still overwhelmingly Democrat. It was a gain from like 20% to 30%.
A lot of this was because Flordia Republicans actually did a pretty good post-Maria while the Florida Democratic Party is a dumpster fire that can't get out of their own way.
There is also that people with the means to leave PR and move to Florida are going to trend wealthier, which i would expect means more Republican than average.
Either way though, no excuse for PR not to be a state.
Definitely, but also our pastime of fighting over admitting new states due to how it might change the balance of power is nearly as old as the constitution itself
But they're brown, override.
Isn't that the reason that there are two Dakota's?
Nah, it was to preserve increasingly slim Republican majorities in the Senate in the Gilded Age.
Still working!
Fuck court packing, let's do some state packing.
Making DC a state doesn't really make sense since it would immediately be the least populace state in the union, unless I'm missing something.
I'd rather we combine the Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming into one state. Since that new mega states population would be ~3 million people.
No, DC is 90-130k more populous than Vermont and Wyoming respectively.
That is basically what happened with a lot of states in the west
Sure, you can come up with arguments about why we need two Dakotas, but I refuse to believe anybody believes them
Also, if you ask anyone in the Dakotas they'd tell you it makes more sense to have East and West Dakota split by the Missouri river than having North and South Dakota with a random straight line.
If we go to an even sixty states we barely have to change any of our songs and slogans!
Yeah, but the flag would look derpy (see the 1912 flag, before Alaska and Hawaii were added).
59 means you keep the current shape of offset rows, at 7 and 6, rather than the current 6 and 5.