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 RepublicanAbortion initiative petitionAG wants the auditor to tell the voters that the cost be higherBOTH are going to be running for office in 2024 and both would like to be governorSouth Carolina, State Senator Sandy Penn, a Republican pleads with her party to not pass abortion restricts and Republican women filibustered the billhttps://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 schoolshttps://twitter.com/JayAshcroftMO/status/1653805431184142346?s=20

Yeah… yeah!

Trump electors in Georgia take immunity deal, and that is a huge dealhttps://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 publicSCOTUS ethics continues to unravel through the media as CJ Roberts dodges meeting and releases a limp ethics statement signed by the membersSCOTUS came down to play politics and now they are feeling it and they don’t like ithttps://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotusAnd yet, still it’s a partisan issueVideo of Sen. Whitehouse: https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1651275112086224911?s=20
 

The Big ONE

Jan. 6 politics, 2024, and youThere 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 2024Abortion - 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.htmlPoud Boys will need to find a way to keep that pride in PRISON - ta ta for now fellashttps://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 outhttps://www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-media-hid-donald-trumps-physicalMeanwhile Don Jr. complaining he hasn’t been invited on Fox for too long, though to be fair the coke has warped his sense of timehttps://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

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/06/politics/senate-republicans-debt-ceiling-raise-spending-cuts/index.html

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

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