I want this woman to win.

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Friday September 11, 2020 · 12:15 AM PDT

2020/09/11 · 00:15

So there’s a progressive woman running for office in Georgia for the first time. Her name is Angela Mayfield and she’s running for HD 67, which is just west of Atlanta. This is the Georgia state house, not the US House of Representatives, so if she wins it won’t help the Democratic congressional representation. But part of the reason the GOP has the power it does is that it has spent decades fighting for seats on school boards and state legislatures and local offices. If she wins it will help in other ways. For one thing, her opponent is the sponsor of Georgia’s draconian abortion ban bill (GA House Bill 481). I want Mayfield to win and I’m going to show you why.

Here’s how she describes herself:

West Georgia sass machine, Southern as all-get-out. Y’all means ALL. I was born to bake biscuits and build a better Georgia, and I’m all out of flour.

Here’s the link to donate to her campaign: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/angelaga

And here’s the Twitter thread that introduced me to her (I apologize for all the images):

Less than two months to go before Election Day, and my local paper (support local journalism, no joke, it’s important) has run a hit piece on me and my trashy mouth. Y’all wanna see screenshots?

[GIF: I HAVE THE RECEIPTS]

First, let me say that for all of you gentle possums who have raised your hands to volunteer, virtual phone banking is ready to go! Drop me a DM (even if you already did, I get a LOT), and we’ll get you started. I love you. You’re amazing. This is going to be so much fun.

First of all, let’s look at what’s got these jimmies so rustled. Neither my opponent nor I had a primary challenger, so the June primary was almost like a pre-season game, giving a snapshot of each candidate’s support and turnout. The results were CLOSE. 751 votes close.

[Gravley: 5,981 Mayfield: 5,230]

My opponent (MG for twitter brevity) is a 4x incumbent- who has been unopposed. As his constituent, that bothered me. He wouldn’t return my calls about HB 481. I watched him talk over a woman concerned about her elderly mother’s nursing home care. Unopposed, and unbothered.

I realized, if I don’t have good representation, and my neighbors don’t either, then maybe MG should have to earn his spot under the Dome. Heck, arm wrassle me for it, I don’t care, but you don’t get to just make legislation because Nathan Deal picked you 4 terms ago.

So, here we are, two months out. I get a DM from the editor of the local paper asking about... Well, not policy, much to my disappointment. My pottymouth.

what do you say to people shocked by your language?

This was my response. I’m sorry it’s so long and in the form of an image; for those who use text readers, I’ll be recording a dramatic reading.(Nota bene: There is no cussing in this official statement to the media about my cussing.)

So Mr. Daniel, followed up and asked for clarification on a point. He asked about “the p-word”. (This is the part in the Greek tragedy where the masked chorus sings “BLESSSS HISSSS HEARRRRT”)

But there are a lot of words that start with p, including “politics” which is why I’m here. So I asked him to be more specific. Which p-word?

So he sends me a screenshot of my tweet from Jan 2019– way before I accidentally got twitter famous! This is impressive investigative journalism, because he either scrolled through a year of possum content to find it, or searched “from:pinkrocktopus pussy”. I bet it’s that.

Now, it’s important to note that in the screenshot (last tweet) I redacted the name of the other person, because they don’t care about this mess right here. I also deleted that tweet to prevent brigading. I still say pussy, though. Here’s a classic:

I’d also like to note that the file data for the screenshot Ron Daniel sent me of my own tweet was dated five days before he asked me about it, which is five days of thinking about me typing pussy. The Twitter analytics on that tweet prove nobody but him gave a solitary shit:

No sir. I will not take the bait on a word you can’t even type. My response was that there are far more important things to discuss, like rural healthcare, maternal mortality in Georgia, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. But Ron wanted to talk about pussy. never heard back.

And this, theydies and gentlethems, is why I’m running. Because men like Ron and Micah feel entitled to control the bodies of people with, yes, pussies and ovaries and wombs, but they find them too vulgar to discuss. Because when I tried to talk issues, I was scolded publicly.

He wrote a hack bag, and now more people are talking about little ol’ me than Friday night football. In Georgia.

Anyway. I’m Angela Mayfield. I’m tired of tater tot legislators who care more about the health and welfare of Confederate statues, than Black mothers and babies.

My mother, @BrendaForCocoa, follows me here, so everything I say, I say in front of my Mama.

Underestimate me again.

FRONT PAGE ABOVE THE FOLD A LADY SAID NAUGHTY WORDS

Here’s my fundraising link, if you’d like to help me take out a full page ad in the Douglas County Sentinel.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/angelaga

Here’s a mention of the story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

The 'sassiest' state House race in west Georgia

According to the AJC, she got $50K in campaign contributions within hours of the Twitter thread last weekend, and had $125,000 by this past Tuesday. Let’s send her some more.

You should read the link though, to find out what Mayfield says is the whitest thing about her.

I want her to win and I want you to help her win and someday I want to see her in Congress or as governor, if Stacey Abrams is busy somewhere else.

Some other mentions of Mayfield:

Extreme Abortion Bans Inspire Progressive Women To Run For Office

Why I’m Choosing to Stay in Georgia Despite Its Extreme Abortion Ban

Anyone heard from TulsaGal?

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Tuesday July 28, 2020 · 12:55 PM PDT

2020/07/28 · 12:55

I realized I hadn’t seen anything from her, and when I checked her last comment was from way back on April 8 and is worrisome:

No, not well, and Covid-19 positive as well (along with my mom). In Oklahoma.

Or rather, I’m “presumed” Covid-19 positive, until/unless I have to be hospitalized in crisis. THEN I will meet the criteria to receive a test. I don’t know how I was exposed or by whom, you see.

I’m maintaining. :)

www.dailykos.com/…

I’m hoping she’s just been busy with life shit — I sent her a checkup message but am wondering if anyone here has been in contact with her.

Why you don't give money to sociopaths

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Saturday March 28, 2020 · 3:44 PM PDT

2020/03/28 · 15:44

As they gazed together at the destruction wrought by Donald's incompetence & corruption, Melania leaned over to whisper in his ear... "I brought smores..." — Dumpster fires only know how to do one thing.

Vox is reporting that Trump says he won’t comply with key transparency measures in the coronavirus stimulus bill.

When Trump signed the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill, he announced in a signing statement that he wasn’t going to respect the requirement that an inspector general oversee corporate handouts and report to Congress. The dumpster fire wrote:

I do not understand, and my Administration will not treat, this provision as permitting the SIGPR [Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery] to issue reports to the Congress without the presidential supervision required by the Take Care Clause

(my emphasis)

In other words, he’s going to block any reports from the Inspector General before they reach Congress, just as the Ukraine whistleblower’s report was blocked. He’s claiming the ability to do this under the Take Care Clause, which is this phrase from Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution:

he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed

The fucking nerve of this POSOTUS, the least faithful executor of any law this country has been infected by, to use that clause to overrule the will of Congress.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted:

And just like that, the Congressional oversight provisions for the 1/2 TRILLION dollar Wall St slush fund (which were *already* too weak) are tossed away the day the bill is signed.

This is a frightening amount of public money to have given a corrupt admin w/ 0 accountability.

She’s dead right as usual, and none of this should surprise anyone. This is why you don’t give assholes like this a blank check:

As some of the commenters on that Twitter thread point out, this is unconstitutional. In 1998 the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Clinton v. City of New York that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996

violated the Presentment Clause of the United States Constitution because it impermissibly gave the President of the United States the power to unilaterally amend or repeal parts of statutes that had been duly passed by the United States Congress.

(side note: the inestimable Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the decision)

But who is going to hold the POSOTUS accountable? The Senate just acquitted him for extortion so he knows he’s untouchable.

Say goodbye to that stimulus money. Donald needs a new shitter.

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Senator Murphy puts the Ukraine call in context

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Saturday October 12, 2019 · 10:29 PM PDT

2019/10/12 · 22:29

Along with everything else that happened yesterday, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) posted an opinion piece on Buzzfeed that seems to have missed most people’s attention (understandably). Murphy has some history with Ukraine and is personally horrified by what’s been happening, and he writes to explain that the July 25 phone call where Trump committed extortion is only part of a larger tapestry of treachery:

Today, as our country becomes consumed by the way Trump has corrupted the US–Ukraine relationship, it’s vital to stop and consider why Ukraine matters so much to the US, and why Trump’s purposeful abandonment of Ukraine has been so damaging to our own national security interests.

Murphy explains his own political connection to Ukraine and how the phone call with Zelensky was just the most acute example of an ongoing betrayal of Ukraine. It’s worth reading — when I first started it I hadn’t registered who the author was and I was imagining it was just some random blogger or pundit spitballing, but once I realized it was from a current US Senator I sat up and paid closer attention. Murphy knows the context and he lays out the history of Trump’s deliberate mistreatment of Ukraine and then makes a concise argument for impeachment:

It is increasingly clear that Trump simply views the US–Ukraine relationship as a convenient vehicle to advance his political interests. He sees American credibility as a casino chip to be traded in to convince Ukraine to help his reelection campaign. This cannot be allowed in a democracy, and that is why an impeachment inquiry is so vitally necessary.

But just before that Murphy makes another, chilling comment that adds another puzzle piece to the picture of Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine to the benefit of Russia:

Lastly, around the same time, Trump also began to unwind the Obama program to shore up NATO defenses against Russia in Eastern Europe. The president announced earlier this month that he would divert $771 million from this program to help pay for his Mexico border wall. Once again, Russia breathed a sigh of relief, watching Trump disassemble yet another cornerstone of the bipartisan counter-Russia strategy.

Interestingly, Murphy doesn’t continue the chain of thought to ask “why is Trump helping Russia?” But I’m sure it’s a question he’s asked himself, and it’s possible that the Ukraine Clown Posse investigation will finally provide clarity where Mueller failed to do so. After all, there’s a reason why the Attorney General of the United States is going around the world trying to get American allies to cough up evidence “proving” that Russia had nothing to do with Trump’s election.

I understand why Pelosi has chosen to keep the impeachment inquiry focused so tightly on the Ukraine phone call; it’s important to stay on target and not risk losing the plot because you keep running off to chase every whiff of corruption from this stinking cesspool. But there’s a traitor in the White House and the full extent of his treachery needs to be exposed.

AOC has four perfect words for Joe Lieberman

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Friday January 11, 2019 · 8:04 AM PST

2019/01/11 · 08:04

Perennial human piece-of-shit Joe Lieberman was talking to Neil Cavuto on Fox Business and complaining about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which apparently is how he’s spending his retirement (no one else will listen to him). There’s nothing more pathetic than an old white guy has-been complaining about a smart, successful young woman of color, but Lieberman’s had it in for her ever since she primaried Joe Crowley, maybe because it uncomfortably reminds him of when Ned Lamont did the same thing to him. At the time Lieberman’s advice to Crowley was to run as an independent and try to beat her in the general (which is what Lieberman did to Lamont, before going on to come out as full-retard). Crowley, to his credit, did not take the advice (causing Lieberman to doubt his commitment to Sparkle Joe-mentum).

Lieberman whined that Ocasio-Cortez was getting attention because she was “different” and “controversial” and too “left-left” (none of these things are true of Joe, he’s incontrovertibly a boring, predictable piece-of-shit), and said “I certainly hope she’s not the future and I don’t believe she is.”

Ed Mazza watches Fox so we don't have to

As we all know, Joe’s ability to predict the future is unparalleled, so Adam H. Johnson called the game, but before anyone could turn out the lights, Ocasio-Cortez gave another demonstration of her Olympic-level Twitter game:

"New party, who dis?"

Succinct, and it sums up Lieberman’s utter irrelevance perfectly (especially since he’s unlikely to get the reference). Now that’s how you shut down an ex. (Note that when Ocasio-Cortez clapped back at McCaskill, she was nicer but just as effective.)

Ned Lamont is now the newly-elected governor of Connecticut. Ocasio-Cortez has a bright future ahead of her, and so will the Democratic Party if the last election is the start of a trend. Joe Lieberman is still a piece of shit.

Magical Rapes and the Hypocrisy of Extradition

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Thursday August 16, 2012 · 2:22 PM PDT

2012/08/16 · 14:22

Why is Assange worse than a pedophile?

England is threatening to revoke Ecuador's diplomatic status and raid their embassy in order to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden, even though Assange has yet to be charged with any crime by Sweden.

Yet no one revoked Switzerland's diplomatic status when they refused to extradite Polanksi - who was convicted of drugging and raping a 13 year old girl.

And no one has revoked or threatened to revoke England's diplomatic status for refusing to extradite convicted pedophile Shawn Sullivan to face trial in Minnesota for raping and sexually molesting a 14 year old girl and two 11 year old girls.

What is it that's so special about Assange's alleged rapes of two women that makes them so much worse than the proven rape of one child or the alleged sexual assaults of three other children by a known pedophile?

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