Talkin' Politics | May 8, 2023
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True or False: Intraparty fighting in supermajority Red states is one of the best tools for Democrats in 2024
- Missouri auditor, a republican, going after Missouri attorney general, a Republican, and in the middle the Missouri secretary of state, a Republican
- Abortion initiative petition
- AG wants the auditor to tell the voters that the cost be higher
- BOTH are going to be running for office in 2024 and both would like to be governor
- South Carolina, State Senator Sandy Penn, a Republican pleads with her party to not pass abortion restricts and Republican women filibustered the bill
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/04/republican-lawmakers-reject-abortion-bans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Yeah…No, Yeah
- Missouri Secretary of State shared a story about a Utah provision regarding age verification on porn sites in another instance where the GOP will pretend like the answer to a problem is restrictions and registration unless that problem can fire hot metal at kids in schools
- https://twitter.com/JayAshcroftMO/status/1653805431184142346?s=20
Yeah… yeah!
- Trump electors in Georgia take immunity deal, and that is a huge deal
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/05/fulton-county-georgia-trump-investigation-electors-immunity/
Buy or Sell
- The Supreme Court will have to have at least one justice turned over to regain legitimacy with the American public
- SCOTUS ethics continues to unravel through the media as CJ Roberts dodges meeting and releases a limp ethics statement signed by the members
- SCOTUS came down to play politics and now they are feeling it and they don’t like it
- https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus
- And yet, still it’s a partisan issue
- Video of Sen. Whitehouse: https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1651275112086224911?s=20
The Big ONE
- Jan. 6 politics, 2024, and you
- There is still a LOT of time and much can happen but as it stands now it is very hard to imagine a scenario that isn’t Biden v. Trump in 2024
- Abortion - Rachel and Jess talked on Friday night about the live event which you can get a replay of on our youtube channel
- But along side abortion is the other albatross of 2024 - the Jan 6th insurrection and Trump’s attempt to literally overthrow the US Government
- Missouri man gets jail for Jan 6th https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article274933261.html
- Poud Boys will need to find a way to keep that pride in PRISON - ta ta for now fellas
- https://www.axios.com/2023/05/04/proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-seditious-conspiracy
- CNN giving trump a platform, again, even as story of him attacking reporter comes out
- https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-media-hid-donald-trumps-physical
- Meanwhile Don Jr. complaining he hasn’t been invited on Fox for too long, though to be fair the coke has warped his sense of time
- https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-whines-fox-110633877.html?guccounter=1#:~:text=Donald%20Trump%20Jr.%20on%20Monday,not%20anything%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20continued
LAST CALL - THE DEBT CEILING WTF
Tribe opinion spot decent explainer: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/debt-limit.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/debt-ceiling-congress/
43 SENATE GOP SAY they will not support anything without cuts
After Mitch said the Senate isn’t part of this negotiation
Compromise coming?: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/economy/debt-ceiling-compromise-likely-kiplinger-economic-forecasts
Host: Adam Sommer
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