US Politics, December 2019: Profound procedural deficiencies

There is no power on earth that can stop a Congressional Representative in front of a television camera from acting out their favorite role-playing character.

positive norms have value, but only if the just result is achieved. if he ends up "re-elected," any good behavior along the way seems for naught to me.

Fantasizing about one of their quotes making it on a history class chalkboard someday

nah. I'm just here to chat with people who are able to respond in kind.

I'm here for the blow

plus bennies

Imagine thinking the message "the president of France is laughing at us" won't make Americans more likely to want to continue down this path

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) December 5, 2019

It's easy if you try.

it would be nice if they sounded more down to earth

Bernie's good at this

(of course NOT A DEMOCRAT)

doesn't the Grifter's "do it now, fast" sound like Big Pussy on the boat before the crew whacked him?

Imagine thinking the message "the president of France is laughing at us" won't make Americans more likely to want to continue down this path

Trump literally campaigned on "the rest of the world is laughing at us and I'm gonna make them stop"

buuuut that won't mean anything to his malleable fans

Trump completely understands that the subtext of what he says is what's important to his supporters, not the literal meaning. His communication to them is almost entirely made up of postures, attitudes, and signifiers, not articulate sentences reflecting his thoughts and ideas. He gets it. They get it. That's what matters, not the criticism of outsiders.

Xxxpost "not in the face"

Trump literally campaigned on "the rest of the world is laughing at us and I'm gonna make them stop"

they were laughing at Obama because he was so weak and ineffective. they're laughing at Trump because they're jealous of his commanding presence and physique

And his shrinky dink

"malleable" means "dying to be hit with mallets," right?

Yes

pareene should be slapped for that smug-ass tweet

worthless punditry

really pointless point but i guess that's why he's on twitter

frogbs has it - "they're laughing at us" is just another way to say "Obama's bad, amirite folks?" It's not like anybody was actually won over by the citation of foreign opinion as an appeal to something they cared about before or after.

buuuut that won't mean anything to his malleable fans

nothing won't mean anything to his malleable fans.

next meaningless topic...

BUT DID YOU HEAR WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT BARRON

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-cell-where-a-sick-16-year-old-boy-died-in-border-patrol-care

rmde that the best the Dems can do in the race for the open Senate seat in GA is fucking Joe Lieberman's son?!? I mean maybe he's okay/different from his dad but...

Did anyone think to double check that it isn't just Joe dressed up like a young?

tv ads are just de-aging CGI a la Irishman

I'm Joe Lieberman and I heartily endorse the candidacy of my 'son' Low Jeeberman.

rmde that the best the Dems can do in the race for the open Senate seat in GA is fucking Joe Lieberman's son?!? I mean maybe he's okay/different from his dad but...

― Οὖτις, Friday, December 6, 2019 11:56 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Never forget the weird guy with the hat who was the 2016 Senate nominee in Georgia. Now he's a Tulsi stan:

Debate Watch Party - Please join me! These days, we need Character & Courage. Tulsi has shown both. Standing up FOR American interests, and AGAINST the moneyed and foreign interests pushing us into unending wars. Let’s invest in America again! Valuing Growth | Growing Values pic.twitter.com/S1nRYHGEkL

— Jim Barksdale (@jimbarksdale) November 17, 2019

He runs a “health care consulting business” I’m sure he’s much better than his father

he man if the bushes can convince people they were down home texas boys why can't the lieberman clan convince people they're down home southerners

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ed/3e/15/ed3e15e6d2fa9fa0f822c3d62af520e9--wooden-projects-minions.jpg

There should probably be laws against the formation of political dynasties but I'm not sure who would pass those laws.

IMO fuck that noise (but I've said this before)

yes, voters should be smart enough to choose wisely. or not believe what they see on the webz, which is why i dobt esp but the horrors of 'roll farms.' Then again, we're a nation of dopes.

truly great piece from @ddayen on pelosi's pathetic drug pricing bill. the lengths her office has gone to in trying to crush even the tiniest efforts to make the bill good are insane https://t.co/fTO40OA29N pic.twitter.com/9Sl4lRLB1A

— guy fieri 2020 campaign manager (@libbycwatson) December 6, 2019

BREAKING: The U.S. House of Representatives just passed #HR4 to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and end voter suppression. This is a monumental moment. pic.twitter.com/JcRJmySrrH

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) December 6, 2019

Look at those vote totals.

you can see Biden's long arm reaching across the aisle

Ah Amash. Truly a beacon of integrity in politics. Hates Trump, loves voter suppression

GOP wouldn't exist on a national level at this point without the bag of magnificent tricks (of which voter suppression is but one).

"personal responsibility!"

go die in a fire you fucking traitor

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) says that Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine black Americans in a Charleston church in 2015, "hijacked" the meaning of the Confederate flag.

"Here is this guy that comes out with his manifesto, holding the Confederate flag, and had just hijacked everything that people thought of," Haley said on "The Glenn Beck Podcast" Thursday.

"People saw it as service and sacrifice and heritage, but once he did that, there was no way to overcome it."

I know Nikki Haley is pale and all but does she just not care that these people would cheerfully have abused and murdered her back in the day, too?

that just got her the RNC nomination in 2024

Well luckily Roof was a lone hijacker, and that will never happen again.

That is such an incredibly moronic take I just can't even.

Nikki has hitched her wagon to the Party of Lincoln Unambiguous Racism and must either go along or get out.

Wow, can't believe Dylan Roof became the living embodiment of tainted the sacred meaning of the Confederate flag, so rude.

one thing i learned from Jane Mayer's Dark Money is that Glenn Beck (and Mark Levin, among others) used to receive large payments from the many "foundations" supported by the koch brothers. that doesn't seem that unusual, sadly, but what's really fucked up is that in return for the payments, he agreed to work in koch-sponsored messages into his main broadcast, without telling the audience that they were straight from the koch brothers.

FreedomWorks, it was later revealed, also had some hired help. The tax-exempt organization quietly cemented a deal with Glenn Beck, the incendiary right-wing Fox News television host who at the time was a Tea Party superstar. For an annual payment that eventually topped $1 million, Beck read "embedded contend" written by the FreedomWorks staff. They told him what to say on the air, and he blended the promotional material seamlessly into his monologue, making it sound as if it were his own opinion. The arrangement was described on FreedomWorks' tax disclosures as "advertising services."

i know i should be used to this stuff by now, but i'm amazed that beck is still on the air, that anyone can go on his show without ridicule, etc.

"loe jeeberman" cracked me up for some reason

REPORTER: Who's your starter?
BELICHICK: We signed a veteran from the Turkish league, Tmō Bardy.
BRADY: [in black beard, caftan]
Merhaba.

— Lupus Haas (@Mobute) May 11, 2015