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

I just want to sit back for five seconds and bask in the fact that we will have two D senators from GA. Give me another hit of that shit!

trump was really good at turning out non voters some of them have no doubt become permanently politicized and some will just fade into bolivian

true but he turned out way more for the other side and I think a lot of those people are going to permanently engaged as well

dc and PR boutta be states hopefully

we should find some more states to make too, whatre the politics of guam like

Gheorghe Mureșan

Nah, I wish. This was 1991 and he was still playing in Europe at that point.

we should find some more states to make too, whatre the politics of guam like

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 11:58 AM (eighteen seconds ago)

ILH should be a state

the current guy for this on the Bucks is Giannis's brother. we love him so much we don't mind wasting a roster spot on his big bro

dc and PR boutta be states hopefully

What do people think are the odds of the filibuster going away? Seems like that is the first step toward anything even slightly game-changing.

lmfao had not seen this one

Georgia Reloaded is here.

The epic saga continues, this time in Georgia. Everything is on the line. Donate to the fight at https://t.co/2j2lVY8Ak7 pic.twitter.com/N5T4zqmdpc

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) December 13, 2020

the current guy for this on the Bucks is Giannis's brother.

and before that there was the Thon Maker era

we should find some more states to make too, whatre the politics of guam like

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 11:58 AM (eighteen seconds ago)

ILH should be a state

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 6, 2021 11:58 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk bise has fascist tendencies

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Bison_%28Super_Street_Fighter_II%29.png

probably won't happen with Manchin in the way

it kind of sucks the Dems have to deal with so many different crises in parallel because it really seems their priority ought to be expanding voting rights, adding SC & Senate seats, and getting fair maps drawn before the country becomes permafucked

the first step is the dems wanting to do those things

we should find some more states to make too, whatre the politics of guam like

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 10:58 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Tired: DC/PR statehood
Wired: US Virgin Islands/American Samoa statehoodhttps://t.co/fFRLPyXgjG pic.twitter.com/TECPZ4htLo

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) January 6, 2021

xpost - I mean, surely that's part of the GOP/Trump motivation to make sure Biden starts with as many crises as possible to keep their eye of the ball of expanding voter rights.

Ah too bad

RT @rebtanhs: Republican senators are being swarmed by Trump protesters on the Hill. Here’s an exasperated @SenToddYoung saying he won’t vote against certifying the election.

“I took oath under God... does that still matter in this country?” pic.twitter.com/VMlvMZJcFm

— Robert McCartney (@McCartneyWP) January 6, 2021

fuck Todd Young, he's not even a name brand senator

I want him to be primaried

― k3vin k.,

Well, sure, who doesn't? Let's find a left-er candidate in WVA.

xp Wow, so that's what the internet "Actually..." sounds like when emitted from a human larynx

AG nominee is...Merrick Garland!
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/biden-to-tap-merrick-garland-for-attorney-general-455410

lmaooo

Love the lol understatement of the last graf:

In a Republican-controlled Senate, Jones was viewed as the easiest candidate to get confirmed given his strong relationships across the aisle. Garland was also considered a risk in that it would be difficult to confirm a replacement for him on the appellate court.

But with Democrats expected to have won the majority with a pair of upset victories in Georgia, confirmation issues with other candidates largely dissipated.

I'm guessing that the Garland nomination wouldn't have happened if Democrats didn't control the Senate, because now Biden can fill Garland's seat on the DC circuit without much trouble.

(OK, just read the Politico article, and it basically says that.)

Re: statehood, I was in the USVI for the first time last year (just pre-COVID), in St. Thomas. It was beautiful but also made me feel bad because it wasn't some other country's neglected poverty-stricken tourist satellite but our own country's. They should 100% get statehood if they want it. Median household income in USVI is $37k, which is $20k below the U.S. median.

Why is Manchin (III) a Dem?

― pomenitul, Wednesday

West Virginia was historically a radically pro-union state, via the United Mine Workers. Manchin's Democrat affiliation lets him benefit from holdover sentiments from that era, while basically repping for at least half the Republican agenda.

lmfao had not seen this one

[Dan Crenshaw tweet/vid]

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 12:01 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Honestly it is incredible that the spoof (Decker) came out years before the apparent, nearly indistinguishable source of said spoof. This fun fact might blow some political comedy historian's mind in the future.

the very small old lady at the end of that video ned posted is lol

Guam is really, really small -- don't get me wrong, very small patches of lands have been admitted as states for political advantage before, but it would be a little more openly gaming the system then the obvious move of statehood for DC, which clearly wants statehood and which is bigger than Wyoming.

and the crenshaw one probably had a budget that was thousands of times larger than heidecker's

the crazy thing about it is that Decker was modelled after Donald Trump even before he ran for President

Makes sense, Aimless, thx. And I certainly wouldn’t want him to be a Republican, I’m just an ignoramus coming to grips with hot takes that paint him as a Trojan Horse.

guam is a military base that people have to live on, right?

in the same way Cuba was a sugarcane plantation

no it's a colony of the american empire

xp!

more specifically ~170k people live there

god garland is such a lame choice, whatever

strong mandalorian vibes from Biden's picks

I will say, again, that it should be up to Puerto Ricans as to whether they want to be given statehood. Forcing it on them would be just another colonising insult in a history of colonising insults. Same with Guam and the USVI.

On a completely different note, I can't believe that people watched The Apprentice for enjoyment. I remember asking them to turn it off in the Pittsburgh Greyhound station once, and they actually changed the channel for me! (It was a late night re-run). My point being that if one doesn't have a television, then one has no idea that Trump is good at television, which explains some of my shock in 2015-2016. Who has time to waste watching such absolute trash (ie most television)?

the crazy thing about it is that Decker was modelled after Donald Trump even before he ran for President

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 12:22 PM (twelve seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

He also made the joke that he wanted Trump to run for president and tell obama "you're fired" in a stand up bit prior to running as well. Probably right around when DT was being celebrity birther.

the president just tweeted:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 6, 2021

god garland is such a lame choice, whatever

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 6, 2021 11:27 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Possible that there's some SCOTUS gamesmanship to the choice:

This move also opens up a DC Circuit seat to elevate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson so to better position her for Breyer’s seat https://t.co/rWY8HNnqL8

— Mike Sacks (@MikeSacksEsq) January 6, 2021

there was a fun moment at his rally a couple days ago where he realized that if Dems were really rigging elections that Hillary would have won in 2016, and just left it an open question as to why they didn't

Here's a shot of the crowd just ahead of Trump's speech to the rally pic.twitter.com/TSK3p9EKdr

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 6, 2021

lol he was just talking about how mad she must be they didn't rig it for her xp

it is amazing how he comes up with a line like that and just kinda freezes as he realizes he debunked his own conspiracy theory

Possible that there's some SCOTUS gamesmanship to the choice:

This move also opens up a DC Circuit seat to elevate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson so to better position her for Breyer’s seat https://t.co/rWY8HNnqL8
— Mike Sacks (@MikeSacksEsq) January 6, 2021
― jaymc, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 12:32 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

as you know this is silly. you’re allowed to pick a SCOTUS nominee from a district court. he can choose anyone he wants!

Trump describes the counting of votes as "explosions of bullshit." His fans respond by chanting, "bull-shit!" pic.twitter.com/ggc7VQNkQw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 6, 2021