US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

There's reticence and then there's disrespect.

I got invited to the national prayer breakfast once, didn't go because I still don't really know what it is aside from people praying over pancakes (and I wasn't sure if they were offering to pay for my trip and I didn't feel like clarifying that). probably would have had good schmoozing.

old ppl in being dismissive of young ppl's enthusiasm shockah

xp

are there mimosas?

christ she’s an asshole.

if they serve mimosas, then it's no wonder I don't attend.

christ she’s an asshole.

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will),

she has to be -- she's Speaker.

also, from Baltimore

I did not clarify what the menu was, it might have tempted me! xp

Casten talked about amending the Clean Air Act to encourage power plants to increase their efficiency

lol I don't want to encourage power plants to do shit, I want to force them

otm

if they serve mimosas, then it's no wonder I don't attend.

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

this is a policy i can get behind - #noOJinmychampagne2020

the funny part is that so many think the GND goes too far / asks for too much when really it's not aggressive/ambitious enough

Mimosas are a palliative for people who assume a martini at 11 a.m. is the height of audacity yet don't mind filling their systems with sugar.

#banmimosas

the funny part is that so many think drinking mimosas goes too far / asks for too much when really it's not aggressive/ambitious enough

Where are we in bloody marys?

*on

not enough votes in the Senate

I dislike drinking salad.

I have never had a mimosa but you're kinda making me want to try one

love a good bloody mary

Yeh see I don’t think shitting on the enthusiasm and a broadly popular dem policy agenda makes you an effective Speaker.

xposts

i think everyone recognizes that pelosi is a generational legislative talent, she has done many more good things than bad in her career. but she doesn't have to be defended every single time she fucks up. dismissively calling it the "green dream or whatever they call it" is fucking up. yes, she's been burned before, yes, if the caucus gets behind it she will get the votes. but it's still fucking up. there are many ways to register general disapproval of a plan. then there's calling it the "green dream or whatever they call it". she's a big girl, we can say that we totally disagree with her without attacking her legacy and her ability to get things done

effective as she may be (compared to dopes like Boehner or Ryan), at some point everyone Yasss Kweening is just going to have to come to grips with the fact that she just personally doesn’t support effective climate change legislation or a M4A

clapping sarcastically at Trump doesn’t really improve anyone’s life

fyi, Rush Lumbago pronounces "Ocasio-Cortez" with a Zorro-style lisp, and says the Green New Deal would phase out air travel in ten years

she has said the clapping was not sarcastic fwiw

just imagine a Republican in a leadership position who doesn’t (at least in the press) support “life at conception” and cutting taxes

and from the safest of the safe red states no less

she has said the clapping was not sarcastic fwiw

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, February 7, 2019

goddammit this is the last straw

maybe she was being sarcastic when she said the clapping wasn't sarcastic?

xxp Not sure what you mean, Will, you should read the (very brief) article. she says in the interview that climate change is her “flagpole priority” and she’s right that GND is more a slogan not ready to go legislation. the dream remark is given without broader context, sounds dumb but...

(ftr I don't care about the clapping but it is funny given the mass-meme-production)

Liberals who believe this was a gesture of defiance give you some clue how liberals view political defiance. pic.twitter.com/NcSSWA3gVC

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) February 6, 2019

see also: Jose Altuve looking slightly serious while Donald Trump spoke at the Astros' post-World Series White House visit and everyone crowing that he was owning Donald Trump or w/e

just personally doesn’t support effective climate change legislation or a M4A

cool, so now we've gone from criticizing an off-hand (but yes, ultimately unhelpful) comment to baldfaced misrepresentation.

time for the virginia republicans

Breaking: Virginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurshttps://t.co/S3Tcj5qIF2

— The Virginian-Pilot (@virginianpilot) February 7, 2019

Yeah I was wondering when that would happen.

lol

Dems finally went yearbook huntin'

The thing about Dennis Perrin tweets is that Morbs is funnier saying the exact same things. Why outsource?

Not quite as big a catch as three governors but still

What happens if the entire VA government has racist yearbook photos?

Year of the Yearbook

it's not a catch because as noted, no GOPers will resign over this - esp when they can point to the Dem governor and say "well, HE didn't resign over it, why should I? (also blackface is funny, lighten up!)"

/ just personally doesn’t support effective climate change legislation or a M4A/

cool, so now we've gone from criticizing an off-hand (but yes, ultimately unhelpful) comment to baldfaced misrepresentation.

high roading

Asked about Pelosi's "green dream" dig, @AOC says she's not offended. "It *is* a green dream."@SenMarkey jumps in and says, "There is no greater champion on climate change than Nancy Pelosi."

— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) February 7, 2019

savvy

yep

yup