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

if only morbs could have been here for this thread

nerdy footnote: Bidens inauguration bible has been in his family for 183 years and has all his swearing-in dates inscribed in it + Beau’s AG Delaware swearing-in as well

Happy days!

what was he sworn into 183 years ago?

mean...when you come into a thread accusing the thread participants of collectively being imperialists, knowing full well at least two posters (but probably many more) are PoC who are relieved to see the end of the previous administration...idk, do you expect a great reaction from that? It kind of invites "are you REALLY left-wing enough?" and is itself a 'purity test'.

I like table, but I understand why DJP and Alfred responded the way they did, and I don't exactly consider either of them to be John Kerry politically.

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal),

otm -- this is it

xpost I like the nerdy footnote. I don't imagine Trump owns a bible, probably had to borrow that copy for his gas-the-kids march

he doesn't have a Bible, he has a Bumble account

Biden doing a tiny bit of old-man Mandelbaum jogging during the parade was funny.

love all the people yelling "how does it feel to be President?".

what's he gonna say "it fuckin' sucks, I hate it, and it shouldn't exist!"

Bidens secret service detail have got their work cut out for them re his detours to chat with all of humanity lol

"Biden! Packers or Bucs?"

"Let's go old school - Packers!"

"Thanks Joe!"

"Are the Cardinals still in St Louis?"

"No, they're in Arizona now!"

Maybe it would facilitate discussion if we could have an automatic script pop up on any politics post that says "STIPULATED: Joe Biden is a corporate whore who actively hates poor people and grinds their bones to make his bread."

Then whatever came after it could maybe be discussed on its own merits.

Genuinely shocked at that gyac post.

just assume everyone knows this & is posting anyway xpost

Apparently we can't assume it, we have to say it every time we open our mouths or we're cheering for empire.

Lol I have no issues with Biden's family bible, just thought instantly of the Harry Potter man eating book when I saw those massive straps holding it shut.

Such a joy to click on a news story and read "former president Donald Trump"

I'm actually writing a story for tomorrow and got to use that phrase, I enjoyed it.

Empire sucks, Mindcrime was better

"former hotel owner and occasional politician, Donald Trump"

Maybe it would facilitate discussion if we could have an automatic script pop up on any politics post that says "STIPULATED: Joe Biden is a corporate whore who actively hates poor people and grinds their bones to make his bread."

Then whatever came after it could maybe be discussed on its own merits.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 4:26 PM (thirteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

The left won't agree with Biden's autocratic scripts.

If everyone's on the same page to start with, the level of outrage when a negative viewpoint is expressed seems unwarranted.

Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?

*punches* "No!"

No because it usually takes the form of some kind of lefter-than-thou posture. The reason Alfred reacted the way he did wasn't because of the utterly banal observation that ceremonial American pageantry provides window dressing for a litany of past and present horrors, but the inherent accusation that people "itt" were lapping that shit up like good lil goose-steppers.

Otm

idk y'all let's just shut it down

posting was a nice experiment but I think it's run its course

a dude comes in your house to play Atari. the only game you have is E.T.

It's awful and you and your friend hate playing it. But your mother is picking up the only game that is being carried at the local Pic 'n Save, Pole Position.

you're thrilled that it's a better game to play, but your friend points out that the game sucks. you laugh - yeah it kinda does. he repeats it. you laugh again. he repeats it five minutes later, even as you're both screaming at the TV cos CIA guy got you....again, or you got stuck at the bottom of a well and couldn't do the throat-expansion escape properly.

both of you begin to hate your existence - you don't want to play this shitty game, but you don't want to go OUTSIDE because that's boring ,and besides there are a lot of ET fans out there who don't like what you've been saying about the game, and are waiting to beat you up, so you keep playing it, dreaming of when the mediocre Pole Position will arrive. your friend keeps pointing out how C- that game is and how it's probably a waste of time, but you're starting to get annoyed now, because you know it's not a great game, but you are dying to play something that isn't fucking ET.

finally you let out a primal scream after you die again on ET and you destroy the game until there are shards of plastic wedged into all of your fingers and thumb and you are bleeding on the carpet, and your mom walks in, unfazed because this happens every Tuesday, and she has Pole Position. and you put it on and are feeling so much better that you don't have to play ET again, but your friend immediately starts harping on what a crap game Pole Position is and chastises you for moments of levity during the game.

Quiz question - why did u murder your friend? a "difference of opinion"?

No one was singled out, no specific references were made - so why would anyone not taking part assume the statement refers to them?

The "leftier than thou posture" is the usual excuse for ganging up here, but I've yet to see where anyone has called Biden celebrants (or Obama celebrants or etc.) bad people or anything of the like. It's more like just seeing "leftier" viewpoints is offensive in and of itself.

what is "going outside" in this metaphor? xp

it's not so much a metaphor as a story that got out of hand

ok, so, new thread tomorrow, now that we just blew up this one?

*opens and pokes head in door*

It's a good day, everyone! uh... *looks around*

Think I'm going to go back to ILM and finalize my EOY lists.

*closes door*

When did 'leftist' start meaning 'has difficulty with reading comprehension'

Neanderthal, I really enjoyed that

Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?
Shouldn't it just be a shrug and 'yeah'?

In actually important news...

Biden Moves To Oust Top Labor Board Attorney Peter Robb

The Biden administration has asked for the resignation of the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, Trump-appointee Peter Robb, according to four people familiar with the decision.

The White House notified Robb of its decision by letter, which specified he had until 5 p.m. Wednesday to voluntarily resign or be fired, two people with knowledge of the correspondence said.

The NLRB enforces private-sector workers’ rights to organize, and its general counsel has sweeping authority to determine which types of cases the agency does or doesn’t pursue. Robb, a former management-side attorney who helped Ronald Reagan defeat the air traffic controller’s union, has pushed an aggressive, pro-business agenda at the labor board.

His term is slated to last until this coming November, but unions, including the Service Employees International Union and Communications Workers of America, have been urging Biden to break with precedent by forcing him out immediately, in order to begin reorienting the agency toward protecting workers.

yep that was briefly noted earlier, fabulous news

Careful don't wanna be too imperial

Sorry, that was just needlessly shit-stirry of me. It's just frustrating when overtly/stridently leftist posters assume that others don't share or accept their views just because they aren't as overt/strident.

Both GA senators sworn in

ilx

me (patriotic american): ohhh i am so horny for uncle joe oooo sexy daddy yes americans can finally be aroused by their sexy president again yes 🤤🤤🤤

you (unamerican communist): you are being weird

— Rajat Suresh (@rajat_suresh) January 20, 2021

*unbookmarks thread*

(Waited four years to do that!)

I heard on the radio that Pence was apparently angling for some polite face time after the ceremony. I assume he was iced out and then just ghosted?

"lookit all the fucking corporate lapdogs itt"

*everyone in thread* "wtf?"

"hey i din't single anyone out. musta hit a nerve huh?"

I like a lot of you and know that we're ostensibly on the same side, despite my more strident expression of certain views.

I also felt lighter this morning.

But I also don't think that stating that the US is an unredeemable project and we're all fools for playing along is totally out of bounds. I include myself in that category of foolishness.

Finally, because of the way Twitter and other social media works, I've found that sometimes my anger and frustration with popular narratives gets transferred to here, occasionally leading to strident and shitty posts. I'm going to work on that.

Glad those executive orders are going through. Hopefully more in the next days. And hopefully there's some sort of actual response to the pandemic soon.

Memo sent by the new @WhiteHouse chief of staff to heads of executive departments and agencies on freezing new regulations pending review. pic.twitter.com/Vrd8JVQA0V

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) January 20, 2021

got some content for this thread. here we go.

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