And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

Is it bad that I don’t believe the reasonable guy is a “lifelong Republican”?

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will)

idk not hard to believe that a white likely middle class guy in GA was raised to be a republican

The full call is here and while I have your attention pay your child support https://t.co/fo2JPaxUEs https://t.co/PPOyuu4fkJ

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 3, 2021

oof

Welp. Just saw on twitter that the beloved internet figure of old Tron Guy is a textbook MAGA chud.

Pelosi defeated McCarthy 216-208. obviously party lines but god help us if/when they take the House back and that thug becomes speaker.

"I hope Mike Pence comes through for us. I have to tell you ... of course if he doesn't come through, I don't like him quite as much." -- Trump pic.twitter.com/jZDOsiEllB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2021

I feel like Trump is envisioning something like the La La Land/Moonlight moment.

I hope Pence bursts through his chest like the the baby alien.

I hope Pence bursts through his chest like the the baby alien

idk not hard to believe that a white likely middle class guy in GA was raised to be a republican

what kind of BS is going on here?

Welp.

Republican majority of the Pennsylvania State Senate just removed @JohnFetterman from the chamber. President Pro Temp Corman is presiding instead. Fetterman refused to recognize a motion that would have prevented a duly elected Democratic senator from being sworn in. pic.twitter.com/BOFe1kRMfe

— Abraham Gutman 🔥 (@abgutman) January 5, 2021

It's a fight over mail-in ballots in one close Senate race. Whether to count ones that didn't have a hand-written date. GOP has already lost on this in state court and has filed a federal suit that will probably lose too, but they're refusing to certify the winner in the meantime.

caek, of course I think we all deserve $2000. but *every unemployed or underemployed adult* in the US should have been receiving at least $2000/month since the pandemic started. it is indicative of the absolute loathing and lack of empathy that most politicians have for their constituents that this hasn't happened. this lack of economic action is also among the reasons why 350,000 people have died, many of them needlessly.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/spl/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate-removed-republicans-jim-brewster-20210105.html

I feel like this is our new future. Don't expect a clearly settled election in which a Dem wins for quite some time. My wife said there's even been some bullshit on a local Facebook group where people are pulling the "voter fraud" shit on local aldermen elections from a year ago. Jesus.

And if there's voter fraud, it's always in the Dems' favor.

And the more Dems win by as the demographics continue to shift in their favor, the more fraud there is.

table, i agree with all of that.

And if there's voter fraud, it's always in the Dems' favor.

Which is why Republicans should always attempt to cast fraudulent votes whenever they can, to offset the undoubted Democratic voter fraud taking place everywhere in every election, even in Republican strongholds. For example, you know the Democrats are cheating in Wyoming elections because how else can you explain any Democrat winning any office in that state? By rights, it should be 100% Republicans all the way down. QED

xp what Trump did to the term “fake news”, Republicans are now doing to the term “fraud”.

I somehow get less depressed by all this shit when I put it in the context of this country's history. Like, this is all just Chapter 232 of the ongoing struggle. Of course we have to fight for it, we always have.

(not just this country, obviously, it's just where i happen to live)

The GOP staunchly believes in upholding the most treasured elements of American political life: gerrymandering and voter suppression.

*every unemployed or underemployed adult* in the US should have been receiving at least $2000/month since the pandemic started.

I was saying similar things by the end of March. It seemed obvious to me. Instead, the USA will lose more than half a million lives to the pandemic, I'm thinking it will claim over 550,000, when that number should have been closer to 150,000. When the pandemic ends, the government could easily enough forestall rampant inflation by sopping up excess cash via increased taxation and retiring treasury bonds purchased by the Federal Reserve. That's how a real democracy would do it.

"beloved internet figure of old Tron Guy" what does this mean?

omg this is going great

these people are out of their minds pic.twitter.com/nttqE5qdKF

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2021

"I'm going to give everyone three action steps ... turn to the person next to you and give them a hug. Someone you don't know ... it's a mass-spreader event! It's a mass-spreader event!"

(shakes head) how you can view that and be enthusiastic about it beats me

this would be a great moment to learn dinosaurs aren't extinct and see one run right through that crowd

Like tbf if the death cult's ultimate goal is to make me want to die, they succeed on a daily basis.

I have been thinking a lot recently about how all of that sort of insane bullshit has always been here, it's just that now it is broadcast to *the entire planet* a lot more.

We don’t need no George So-ros
Financier! Leave those kids alone

sorry for spamming this but it's a car wreck

beyond parody pic.twitter.com/16nolKMtK2

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2021

DC (the City) is going to be a mess for the next few weeks. I hate global warming cause only a couple decades ago it’s be too cold for these chuckleheads.

cool, ilx is my new one-stop shop for doomscrolling

my bad

does she have backing music?

I have been thinking a lot recently about how all of that sort of insane bullshit has always been here, it's just that now it is broadcast to *the entire planet* a lot more.

"Jesus Christ and the truth" - rejected Springsteen slogan

_I have been thinking a lot recently about how all of that sort of insane bullshit has always been here, it's just that now it is broadcast to *the entire planet* a lot more._


Yeah I find it oddly comforting that there were lunatics and rumors and conspiracy theories in the past, but they’d wait to the annual town meeting or something to talk about how the Masons or Catholics are sacrificing children.

i liked when the wackos were mostly in their basement on a had radio waiting for the newsletters in the mail.

"My kids'll be ussing their own penssilllss.."

Sounds like she had a nip or two of Hot Damn before taking the podium.

I remember where the only place I read about William Cooper-level bullshit was from randos reviewing Behold a Pale Horse on epinions.com

We’ve got cultural amnesia about how pervasive the Satanic Panic (QAnon v1.0) was and how many lives it ruined and those people are still alive, you don’t need to dip back to the Anti-Masonic Party.

And it helpfully disabuses me of the illusion of “progress” or that “people know better these days”.

― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, January 5, 2021 3:01 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i like item 1 in the list at the end of iggy pop's review of the decline and fall

Iggy Pop on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall is the most poignant thing I’ve read all week. https://t.co/jksAqwnpAQ pic.twitter.com/sG5aW5gN9h

— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) January 3, 2021

Cultural amnesia about 'recovered memories'

Like, we also know that were weird radical LEFTIST people in small shitty honky towns across the US before, too, who for whatever reason could not or did not want to leave those places. That's also comforting to me.

Iggy otm

We’ve got cultural amnesia about how pervasive the Satanic Panic

oh yeah! I was pretty young during this but remember watching the McMartin case and being so scared by all the propaganda and thinking there were satanic molesters that were going to get me.

I remember a family vacation to Boston Commons as a kid, my first time seeing a doomsday prophet with a sandwich board ranting insanely. Now it's just like that, but on TV 24/7.