Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

(in other words, gyac otm)

A former bandmate of mine got pardoned. Can't say I'm surprised, but it's still hilarious to me that he (K3n Kurs0n) was thought to be too toxic by the Trump administration for a post.

lol this knucklehead floated notoriously just out of the periphery of my college social circle. Here's a contemporaneous Baffler takedown

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/three-scenes-from-a-bull-market

Fox News' Sandra Smith wonders if Biden signing executive orders on his first day will show he's not for unity, asking "what message does this send."

Chris Wallace: "It says that he won. It’s as simple as that." pic.twitter.com/y1zGSBubtV

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 20, 2021

lol

me signing executive orders rather than passing laws: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

me watching my successor sign executive orders: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Cuts both ways unfortunately

'm a little baffled by all the cheering on of Empire that's happening here and elsewhere on the internet, though, so I'm peacing out for now.

― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table)

It was at best an OK show.

And, yeah, table, I love you, and I'll tell you the same thing I'd say if we had beers in person: to wish Joe Biden signs meaningful legislation also means a Celebration of the Empire, so I guess all that Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, etc. taught me how to do dialectical thinking real good.

In other words, stop virtue signaling. We get it.

in other words, I am really fucking happy Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are in the executive branch again. Joe Biden also sucks.

That work?

Is this a serious post lol
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 1:39 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

...yes?

if i had to see the madison cawthorn signature, you have to see the madison cawthorn signature pic.twitter.com/2KKym3vr5O

— alex (@alex_abads) January 20, 2021

xxpost OTM

It's nearly imperceptible, but I'm feeling just the slightest physical release after four years of clenching, and the sensation is a little euphoric.

I didn't realize Madison Cawthorn was in fourth grade. His cursive is coming along great!

Some labor news: SEIU has been pressing Biden to immediately fire Peter Robb, the NLRB's Trump-appointed general counsel. That's not normally done under a new prez. It would be a precedent-setting move that shows Biden willing to play hardball for unions https://t.co/IN6NHCYVxS

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) January 14, 2021

Scoop w/@josheidelson: Biden demanded the resignation of the federal labor board's top attorney just after being sworn in today. No word yet whether he'll leave voluntarily or force Biden to fire him. https://t.co/iYyDZ6lIio

— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) January 20, 2021

I thought Madison signed right under Dick Van Dyke. I need new bifocals.

xp the good news just keeps comin'!

I want to read a hundred little items like that over the next few days as each little tick Trump embedded in various positions is plucked off and flushed away

And unlike the Trump White House, which replaced (or didn't!) each chump with a worse chump, there is pretty much nowhere to go but up.

The incoming Biden admin has hidden a message for IT folk in https://t.co/vF4SFEypzm's source code: pic.twitter.com/au0kdv0Fgp

— Raphael Satter (@razhael) January 20, 2021

I keep remembering all these outrages that would have been a huge deal if they weren’t just one of many. Like, are there any plans to move the FDA back from fucking Kansas?

In other words, stop virtue signaling. We get it.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 20:12 (seventeen minutes ago) link

Saying some is 'virtue signalling' is a textbook example of not getting it

My bad, USDA apparently

Saying some is 'virtue signalling' is a textbook example of not getting it

― xyzzzz__,

well, your posts here are textbook.

One of the good ones

I need to order t-shirts that say EMPIRE on them.

Have we even mentioned the coolest part of today? (After Kamala's swearing-in, that is)
There will be a rescue dog AND a cat inhabiting the White House

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1431677460.6399/ssrco,classic_tee,two_models,101010:01c5ca27c6,front,tall_portrait,750x1000.1.jpg

Alfred “virtue signaling” is a fake idea invented by reactionary trolls so maybe pick a different line of attack if you don’t want a reputation as a reactionary troll

gotta say, garth's amazing grace was pretty good! it was honest.

oh shit, i just his last verse. i'm being asked to sing along...i don't..is this the famous verse, shit here we go fuuuu

lady gaga's anthem was terrible but it's a terrible song

xps his candidate won, he doesn’t have to pretend to be progressive any more

watching a good national anthem is inspirational because it's like making strawberries out of a tarpit

Alfred “virtue signaling” is a fake idea invented by reactionary trolls so maybe pick a different line of attack if you don’t want a reputation as a reactionary troll

― Canon in Deez (silby)

If there's one thing I know, my public record suggests I'll earn a reputation as a reactionary troll.

So to be clear, table rolled in here with “Biden’s executive orders are good” followed almost immediately by “I don’t get why people are Celebrating The Empire” as if it’s not actually a big deal that a Black and Southeast Asian woman is Vice President for the first time in our history, but non-white posters are not allowed to push back on this blatant disingenuousness because it would make us neo-Nazis.

Why don’t you all go gush over Bernie’s mittens some more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EZujn_aU0

xxpost lol, was gonna say

First they came for the sotos

I'd say “virtue signaling” is often used by reactionary trolls as a stick to beat people espousing progressive ideas. but to say it has no referent at all in reality shows a rather narrow experience of human beings.

well look who’s talking about blatant disingenuousness, yassssss kween Kamala, can’t wait for the foreign policy from the admin saying they recognise the coup stooge in Venezuela!

oh and btw, it’s south Asian, not southeast

damn leftist snowflakes

For years I’ve auto-SB’d anyone who accuses anyone else of “virtue signaling” & have no plans to stop. Don’t use the enemy’s language

fuck you, gyac

🙄

Yay I'm glad the politics thread can once again be left-on-not-left-enough action.

(Seriously, that makes me happy. It would just also be nice if the lefter part of that segment periodically remembers that there are many greater horrors lurking in the body politic than whatever corporate whoring constitutes the outrage of the day.)

Biden's concentration camps still operating presumably

one of these but for American empire when it's being run by liberals

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwf22h9WkAAJPS6.jpg:small

I always assumed the "On Day 1 I'll..." stuff was just a rhetorical flourish, but apparently he's headed inside to sign some of those executive orders.

fuck you, milo

xp we got daylight, go for it! time's a'wasting and people are dying!