US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

july: democrats encourage republicans to pick a justice "in the kennedy mold"
aug: trump nominates giuliani, democrats act betrayed
sep: democrats urge restraint, the gop invokes the nuclear option
oct: heitkamp votes to confirm
nov: heitkamp loses re-election anyway

— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) June 27, 2018

Just hang loose until the fallout has time to start really affecting people's lives. This is the kind of shit that radicalizes fairweather political dilettantes. Take note, GOP!

we all recall the anti vietnam war group The Weatherman

I seriously am disgusted with people who are still listening to /associating with their trump supporting family members/friends too. I cut that shit off right at the holiday after the election. One woman who got mad at me about being a "purist" said she needed her parents for childcare and they really loved the children. I was like life's a bitch, I am sure they are traumatizing your children while you are at work. That is exactly how that shit rolls.

we all recall the anti vietnam war group The Weatherman

And the Baader-Meinhof person

i hate everything and i'm so angry

otm

i cant even work right now

It feels like an awful lot has been decided by smaller states with smaller impact on culture and the economy, by their countryside and by their suburbs.

Set fire to the suburbs

^^I had the same response when they got Doug Ford elected here and imo it's a solid international strategy

I think city people should really start using their economic impact to change things.

it feels like an awful lot has been decided by one fucking idiotic man by the name of anthony kennedy

so... with McCain out, McConnell's majority is just 50-49. Seems like next course of action is to pressure every potential swing vote (Dem and Rep) to vote "no", since Blobfish can't afford to lose, say, both Collins (who does legit care about Roe v. Wade iirc) and Flake without picking up Heitkamp or Manchin.

I would think the Constitutionality of many of Manbaby's actions loom large over the Senate but idk

Collins legit cares about a lot of things, but will always vote against them anyway

I see a lot of news sites talking about some Latina woman beating Crowley last night, this may be weird but she doesn't appear to have a name ?????

― frogbs, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 11:57 PM (yesterday)

why do you go to so many of these sites

yeah they wont be doing any of that shit

we must insist

w/ extreme prejudice

I think city people should really start using their economic impact to change things.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 12:19 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm all for annexing and bulldozing as many unincorporated single-family areas as possible but there's tons of single-family zoning inside city limits that needs to be bulldozed first

Oh, when I advocated upthread about relentlessly hounding all elected GOP officials every waking minute of every day? I should've specified that this continues even after they're out of office, until the day they finally kick the bucket. These motherfuckers don't get to just ride off into the sunset and enjoy a peaceful retirement. Hell no. Demonize and marginalize every single goddamn one of them.

so single-family homes are your scapegoat for US problems huh. Cool.

city-states or bust

I was thinking more about strikes and blocking key infrastructure and financial infrastructure and show the american public that the GOP's entire notion that they represent order is entirely false.

I mean also close down rural schools, ban private high school, ban homeschooling, re-educate the youth in the cities. Mandate robot farming.

Dem. Senator BLUMENTHAL: “The Senate should do nothing to artificially delay” consideration of next justice, but POTUS should take his time & make a centrist choice.

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) June 27, 2018

lol

For the sake of clarity, I would never propose escalation because the powerful usually wins escalations but at this point I would say it's self defence, the roll back on human rights is bound to be pretty nasty.

xpost

Might be time for some more ballgames

SEN. HARRIS on SCOTUS vacancy pic.twitter.com/tr8d8H5d0f

— Lily Adams (@adamslily) June 27, 2018

If the SC justice selection somehow gets miraculously dragged out until the Dems have the power to block any and all nominations and they subsequently fail/refuse to do so, fuck the Democratic Party forever imo.

xpost. Three cheers for Harris, at least.

Kamala Harris still wants to be president and she knows where her bread is buttered right now

Collins is a dumb asshole.

I have no illusions that Harris is anything but a pragmatic former prosecutor who is maybe a scoche to the left of the latter DLC consensus but if she thinks the left Dem platform is a winner and can sell it I’m happy to have her running on it

Jesus fucking christ, Blumenthal is committing political malpractice with that statement.

if she thinks the left Dem platform is a winner and can sell it

former is clearly the case, I am hopeful about the latter

These motherfuckers don't get to just ride off into the sunset and enjoy a peaceful retirement.

hey I have an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5NW94K51A

Do you have a newsletter, and if so how do I subscribe?

Also yeah, if the GOP does well in November I'm losing all hope.

(note: yes I'm still hopeful)

Might be time for some more ballgames

swing for the fences, sports fans

xpost Don't worry, if the GOP maintains their majority, they'll behave so awfully that people will TOTALLY wake up and defect in droves. That will ABSOLUTELY happen, for sure.

Kennedy retiring is bad for Dems in the midterms right? seems like the sort of thing that would drive GOP turnout up

apparently turnout jumped way more dramatically in dem primaries than republican primaries yesterday so that's some hope. We need a crushing victory here, then total obstruction of Trump, then in 2020 we pack the court and or strip jurisdiction. Scorched earth.

Kennedy retiring is bad for Dems in the midterms right? seems like the sort of thing that would drive GOP turnout up

― frogbs, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 2:59 PM (twelve seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually I don't think so, unless he can't get his pick through before January.

Real devil's bargain at work there

Was actually able to reach a staffer in Blumenthal’s office for whatever that’s worth.

feel like Dems not only need to hammer on the Garland thing but also the whole "a POTUS who was elected by a foreign power and is under investigation for actively colluding with them should not get to nominate justices"

There is a laundry list of things they can hammer, they need to do their homework and check what resonates with who and target well.

Set fire to the suburbs

― devops mom (silby), Wednesday, June 27, 2018 7:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388377440l/52493.jpg

feel like Dems not only need to hammer on the Garland thing but also the whole "a POTUS who was elected by a foreign power and is under investigation for actively colluding with them should not get to nominate justices"

― frogbs, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 3:04 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is a laundry list of things they can hammer, they need to do their homework and check what resonates with who and target well.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 3:06 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree, and the goal should be to lay the groundwork for either court-packing or jurisdiction stripping when we (hopefully) retake the senate and the white house. No more indignance for its own sake.

wow this is amazingly bad

had to look up jurisdiction stripping (been a few years since I last re-read the Federalist Papers), seems like a more easily wielded tool than court-packing