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

i'm thinking she probably wanted to pretend to be a patriot in her dying moments, so she said 'sic...semper...dinosaur" before giving out

or they made 60k last year and didn't lose their job but now make 20% less xp

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, January 8, 2021 3:19 PM bookmarkflaglink

exactly

another problem with means testing is it creates a situation where people have to prove they qualify and often end up in bureaucratic hell

lol DJP

So I was just watching the footage of the shooting and everything that led to it (on WaPo) and I'm sure this comparison has been made already, but watching it happen feels like basically just a giant Pizzagate raid. People in that crowd were insistent on going in, like there was actually something important for them to accomplish there. But there wasn't! There was nothing for them to do at all. They weren't even fighting anything real.

wow alright cool

A very significant statement from Joe Biden: "We should be investing in deficit spending in order to generate economic growth."

He notes that borrowing rates are low and says there's a need for an economic infusion now.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 8, 2021

word!

damn

you gotta kind of hand it to the guy lol

The amazing thing is that when historians someday write about this week in US politics, they probably won't even mention Trump's Georgia phone call—which in-and-of itself would be the greatest scandal of any other presidential administration.

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) January 8, 2021

good stuff xpost

yeah it’s frankly insane the number of things that happened this week that ppl will never be held to account for lol good times

also lagoon what’s your substack

glenngreenwald.substack.com

thank you subscribed

surprised that wasn't taken already

CNN is saying the articles of impeachment are ready, and will involve one charge: incitement to insurrection.

hereby impeached for bringing da mothafuckin ruckus

Can they add the Georgia phone call to the articles? They should.

Our photojournalist just caught this image of WV Delegate Derrick Evans being brought into the federal building in Huntington.

I don't think it's my imagination, but those two FBI agents look very sad to be arresting that nice young fella who will soon be sitting in prison for attempting to overthrow the government.

I get why they’re going with that rather than “asking people to find votes” because it’s easier for a Republican to vote for that, but yeah, it’s been a week!

no can we just fuckin pass them please

I do feel lil guilty for getting checks when I still have a decent-paying job but it's not like I'm gonna refuse them. Made some donations and been supporting the local economy ie getting a lot of takeout

CNN is saying the articles of impeachment are ready, and will involve one charge: incitement to insurrection.

― clemenza, Friday, January 8, 2021 3:28 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hereby impeached for bringing da mothafuckin ruckus

― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Friday, January 8, 2021 3:30 PM (twenty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Can they add the Georgia phone call to the articles? They should.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, January 8, 2021 3:31 PM

I'd like to add a Domino's order for tonight.

I kinda feel like the impeachment charge should be "incitement to insurrection" and that alone, to force the Senate to have to publicly vote against that. I mean, making it about the GA phone call gives them so wishy-washy coverage. Let the fuckers vote against the strongest possible charge.

look the solution is obvious UBI but with the bootlicker option to send your check to job creators if you think you don’t deserve it

Considering lots of people still haven't even gotten the second check, I don't think adding any further layer of complication to getting the next one out is going to be a good idea.

NEW: Feds charge Nick Ochs of the Proud Boys. It didn’t take much investigative work. pic.twitter.com/xVvHSKajIP

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) January 8, 2021

Can they add the Georgia phone call to the articles? They should.

Not another endless round of parsing what "I want you to do me a favor *though*" means.

Hasn't Biden promoted deficit spending previously? I could've sworn he's brought it up recently, but who can even keep track of life anymore as it whizzes past us.

The deficit spending thing from Biden is not exactly coming from out of the blue:

Widely seen as a cautious, tradition-bound pol and intuitive centrist within the Democratic fold, Biden stopped his economic advisers in their tracks one morning in late April. On one end of the call, the economists discussed parallels between the landscape Biden might inherit in January and the devastated one of 2009. Eleven years ago, the newly elected vice-president oversaw the implementation of historic stimulus funding, and these days Biden is fond of bringing up his Great Recession–era work because of the similar effort required today and to remind voters of this experience. But now, he said into the phone, it was time they expanded their thinking. Sure, massive gobs of federal financial help have already been approved — unlike in 2008, he pointed out — but that still won’t be enough. Not while the magnitude of this crisis dwarfs the last one. His advisers agreed: If they were going to talk about lessons from history, their future calls might as well dive into the Great Depression and World War II.

“I think it’s probably the biggest challenge in modern history, quite frankly. I think it may not dwarf but eclipse what FDR faced,” Biden told CNN’s Chris Cuomo last month. “The blinders have been taken off because of this COVID crisis,” he said to a group of 68 donors who gathered on Zoom for a fundraiser a few weeks later. “I think people are realizing, ‘My Lord, look at what is possible,’ looking at the institutional changes we can make, without us becoming a ‘socialist country’ or any of that malarkey.”

Is this news to you? Or does the vice-president seem about as far from a transformational crusader of the left as could fit in today’s Democratic Party? Even during lockdown, Biden has been doing quite a lot of interviews and making a wide range of appearances from his basement studio — in many, signaling explicitly the new ambitions now demanded of an aspiring president. It’s just that with all eyes on Trump, and Biden struggling to seize attention even as he leads in national polls, nobody has really noticed. The candidate is not blessed with historic rhetorical skills — for decades, he’s been prone to gaffes and for months has been dogged by concerns spread by his opponents that he has slipped even further. The present crisis would seem to be an enormous opportunity for a politician (like his former boss) endowed with more expansive communication chops. Instead, Biden is bunkered down, campaigning relatively quietly, and now, suddenly, answering an accusation from his past.

(The article came out during that brief-but-still-much-too-long moment when people were expected to give a fuck about Tara Reade.)

xxxxpost yeah just give the fuckin' people money, after all we've been through, consider that emotional restitution (also "needed to survive", but the government never cares about that)

Nick Ochs probably thinks it wasn't breaking and entering since he personally didn't break anything

omar was doing this too, maybe even independently of these two

Reps. Lieu and Cicilline started drafting articles of impeachment while in lockdown together in Cicilline’s office for hours as the Capitol was overrun by pro-Trump rioters. They were on the phone with the lawyer from the Judiciary Committee and with each other. - NBC’s Hill team

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 8, 2021

I do feel lil guilty for getting checks when I still have a decent-paying job but it's not like I'm gonna refuse them. Made some donations and been supporting the local economy ie getting a lot of takeout

the last person the dead woman retweeted was Lin Wood and now he’s calling her a hoax crisis actor. Lol

— “mr gentleman” (@debdrens) January 8, 2021

https://media2.giphy.com/media/wa8uMtV7bmdGTGGmD7/giphy.gif

I get it now.

The thread title refers to Joe Manchin.

🐦[the last person the dead woman retweeted was Lin Wood and now he’s calling her a hoax crisis actor. Lol
— “mr gentleman” (@debdrens) January 8, 2021🕸]🐦

"those people" don't care, the people who will be hurt are the family members, who are already hurt that the woman went down this rabbit hole and is now dead

their movement wld do much better to make their dead into martyrs but that would get in the way of ass covering

"those people" don't care, the people who will be hurt are the family members, who are already hurt that the woman went down this rabbit hole and is now dead

The Crisis Actors Union confirms they had a major casting call for heavyset bearded men with knuckle tattoos.

I’d like to offer my guilt-assuaging services to any ilxors wishing to be unburdened of a $2K check. DM me, my children thank you.

their movement wld do much better to make their dead into martyrs but that would get in the way of ass covering

Sigh I meant the dead
some of whom are dads

1) Check the photo caption

2) realize that this paper from East Texas is an accurate representation of how yesterday will be presented to 90% of American students 30 years from now https://t.co/ZocvEkA0Xq

— Evan McGarvey (@evanmcgarvey) January 8, 2021

theyre also so used to making outlandish shit up its just what they do at this point xp

Trump really went from Andrew Johnson-bad to James Buchanan-bad this week

Hear hear ( over here! )

That was for anyone who doesn’t want their check(s)

My outlet doesn't subscribe to AP for photo content but ... I wonder if they're even allowed to alter the caption when using their photo?