MAGA thinking is that their Lord and Savior Donald Trump will somehow survive his many prosecutions and if they can hold out, pretend that it was all Biden and Dems that were the problem.

It matters on a lot of levels. Like it or not, the speaker decides what comes to the floor for a vote, so all legislation has to pass his sniff test. Also, the speaker is charged withe being the point-person for negotiations with the democrats (or whoever the opposition is) where their support is needed. Furthermore,…

If you saw the presser following his “installation”, the crowd pushing up against him shows where this is going. Boebert was directly to his right and mugging for the camera.

... and everything surrounding Seattle.  And Portland.

It’s only less terrible because he’s been mostly a quiet backroom player to date. He’s more of the same. And the reason he won is twofold:

It tracks. As much as conservatives love to roar about “morals” and “Christianity” and “God” and “think of the children,” they flock to places like New Orleans and Las Vegas and do as much “wanton” shit as they can. If Louisiana didn’t have a New Orleans, conservatives would invent one.

Johnson is a fascist religious extremist, and you can fuck right off with your lies about AOC.

I have some bad news for you about everything surrounding Austin.

Translation: “I just want everyone to be quiet about politics like they were when I was a kid so I can pretend everything is okay!!!”

What policy positions make AOC an “extremist”? I can’t wait for your no-doubt well-informed, carefully-considered response.

A Southern state with high levels of poverty and massive race-based inequality? Don’t take the one Democratic location - New Orleans (voted 83% Democrat in Orleans country in 2020 election) - as representative of the rest of the state. 

He’s worse. He just wears a suit jacket.

It amazes me that the home state of Mardi Gras and drive through daquiris is so right wing. 

This is maybe slightly less terrible than Gym Jordan? More likely he’s just as terrible but not yet as infamous. It feels like the hardliners got what they wanted and the “moderates” got to play act like they were making some kind of stand before bending over for Gaetz and the MAGA freaks.

So, the guy who voted to not certify an election now meets regularly with the guy whose job he doesn’t officially acknowledge him holding? 3rd in line doesn’t support democracy in its most basic form?

If you insist!

Is no one else going to mention Netflix Black Mirror gave us one of the best and funniest riffs on Star Trek and toxic fandom (in my opinion)?

I read this and was like “Yea this is the same guy who basically had scientists taking off protective gear and start fucking around with alien life forms and also had a woman get killed by a giant rolling wheel of doom by apparently never watched a Loony Tunes Cartoon in her life and you know, running out the path of…

In the end, it was not guns and bombs that defeated the aliens, but that humblest of all God’s creatures, the Tyrannosaurus rex.

Yup. It’s told from the xenomorphs POV. Buncha face-huggers hanging out... all of a sudden a ship lands and they start getting pushed and prodded.