Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #1F81
He wouldn’t be hosting them of course. That might cause people to realize he’s full of it.

@Background Pony #1F81
He…isn’t playing a full deck

@Background Human
Yes

Exactly like Street Fighter

@neutralgrey
I dont think Tate handled jail time very well

@Background Pony #1F81
Few do, but Goddamn…that man is losing his damn mind!

Andrew Taint can’t do the time, he shouldn’t have done the crime

@neutralgrey
Honestly seeing Taints downfall has been the highlight of the past few months

@Background Pony #1F81
I really do hope they lock him up and throw away the key. What he did to women is…shit makes my stomach turn…

I hate the guy so much I don’t have anything creative to say about him, besides the fact his presence leaves vaginas wilted and dry for miles.

And he’s one of those guys to be like “fight me bro” not realizing that neanderthals stopped acting that way a half million years ago.

He’s the ball of grease you get if you wiped the armpits of all the manosphere with a spandex jockstrap.

He’s a rapist, and his only professional talent is punching people. Not a good look.

@Beth
If someone doesn’t have an actual argument or counter, they’ll act like wining a physical fight is the same as being in the right.

@Background Pony #1F81
Andrew Snowflake

Cognizant that gerrymandering isn’t going to keep them in power forever, Texas Republicans have introduced a bill that would empower the Secretary of State to nullify election results and order a new one provided he has “good cause to believe that at least two percent of the total number of polling places in the county did not receive supplemental ballots under Section 51.008 for one or more hours after making a request for supplemental ballots to the authority responsible for distributing election supplies.”

The bill also grants the SoS the same authority as a district court, and specifically targets Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, and Collin Counties. You know, those counties that are powering the state’s shift to blue.

@BlitztheDragon
Yo, Mexico. We’re sorry, here’s your trash back.

(Though, at this point, they probably don’t want Texas back so we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable future.)

@Background Pony #1F81
Let’s be thankful he’s in prison and not running some form of Jonestown lest we get a bunch of lemmings following their leader off a possibly literal cliff

@Commune
Uhh…he’s been released. He’s now under house arrest so he might be able to run a cult in some way.

@SleepySteve
If he “tries to fly” himself, hopefully he does it before he actually convinces others to do the same

I’d rather you didn’t disparage people living in states with authoritarian governments. It’s kinda hard to dislodge those.

@SleepySteve@BlitztheDragon
Texas is trying to say something.

You know voters put those authoritarian governments there in the first place, right? I live in Georgia, where Republicans just banned surgical procedures for trans youth. This wouldn’t have happened if Brian Kemp didn’t win re-election. That’s largely because center-righr suburban voters who didn’t like Trump liked Kemp enough to vote for him, despite having very similar views on culture wars.

And Republican and right-leaning voters in Georgia largely supported these bans. And will likely push for more bans next year, especially since it’s an election year.

I’m well aware of this. My point is that making sweeping remarks disparaging people who live in those states is also snubbing the 35-45% or more of people who showed up against that crap.

@BlitztheDragon
Honestly I blame the state Dem parties for dropping the ball. Texas Dems put also-ran Beto on the ticket and he got a double-digit beatdown for his troubles. In Georgia Stacey Abrams fared a little better (single digit loss as opposed to double) than Beto but still drastically underperformed 2018; Warnock wouldn’t have had to deal with a runoff in the Senate race had Abrams not dragged down the Dem ticket down-ballot (I voted all Dem because I’m not a Fox-sucker).

And Florida….well, less said the better.

Can’t argue with you there. Those states’ Democratic parties are utter masochists.

@BlitztheDragon
It’s a shame because Georgia Dems have been on quite a roll since Trump underperformed in the state in 2016. Nominating Abrams a third time in 2026 would send Florida Dems vibes.

@SleepySteve
Eh, it was a mid term election
The fact that the Democrats weren’t sent to the shadow realm during it is a success in it of itself, albeit I’ll attribute that more to Republican incompetence than Democratic competence

@Commune
Yeah. When your top Senate candidates in swing states are election deniers, daytime TV hosts, venture capitalists and has-been college football players you’re not exactly inspiring your party, are you? J.D. Vance was lucky running in Ohio and not being as notorious/toxic as the others.

@SleepySteve
Tim Ryan was the best candidate possible in Ohio and they still lost there

He wasn’t perfect, but he was down-to-earth and played the good midterm strategy in swing states of distancing from the “establishment”

Yet, because Vance wasn’t as bad as the others, he lost. In a normal midterm, this would’ve been seen across the US, but it wasn’t a normal midterm so,