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

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.

https://i2.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/mcconnell-2.jpg?w=1592&ssl=1

lock thraed

I was upset before but then I saw the picture caek posted and now I am extremely upset

Leo in Miller's Crossing: "Running things--sheesh."

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2021/01/2021-01-20T184412Z_944697807_RC2UBL9FCDR3_RTRMADP_3_USA-BIDEN-INAUGURATION1-1024x683.jpg

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.

I cannot view the US as an unredeemable project because I have children and, assuming I die before them, I can't in good conscience leave them with a country/world that wants them dead. It's my responsibility to do what I can to make both the world an easier place for them to live and for them to better protect themselves from the parts of it that want to harm them.

President Biden on the letter left for him by President Trump: “The president wrote a very generous letter.” He says he won’t get into details before talking with Trump.

— Matt Viser (@mviser) January 20, 2021

Probably just the bathroom codes.

amanda gorman's poem - and her reading of it - were wonderful earlier today. and only 22!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4YuEvJ3y4

"Trump" and "generous" in the same sentence does not compute

he's going to make him call him president before he gives him credit for the letter

(which i assume someone else wrote)

(It's important that I correct my post above: Caspar, not Leo.)

DJP, I respect that, and just think we have different ideas about how to reduce that harm. And that's okay.

the letter said

roses r red
violents (sic) are blu (sic)
when u use the bathroom
look what i left for u

That’s a bust of labor organizer Cesar Chavez right behind the president’s desk. https://t.co/YmM8YMAwDR

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) January 20, 2021

Sucks that the prez always has to face away from the windows.

I bet they have a chair that swivels.

Yeah, but then it's more obvious when they are just daydreaming and can't pretend to be working hard.

Nixon was just a big ole swingin dick so

amanda gorman's poem - and her reading of it - were wonderful earlier today. and only 22!

OK, she's at least 5 years older than I thought she was.

Ned thanks for posting that link re: freezing all new regulations, more good news

i guess someone hasn't read miriam pawel's biography of cesar chavez.

Amanda Gorman just graduated from Harvard last year

I can't read the article c os my paywall breaker isnt working on this site (Law360) but supposedly Lin Wood and Powell are arguing in court they shouldn't be disbarred because they didn't sign the pleading docs or appear in the matter...lol

freezing all new regulations

this has become a first day ritual when incoming presidents are of a different party. the next republican will do exactly the same. but, yes, it is good, especially in the present circumstances.

i'm happier today than i thought i'd be. immediately stopping the ecological / humanitarian disaster that is the border wall? yes please.

also bears ears / grand staircase is such a huge deal and made me cry

i just need them to come thru on student loan debt. a lot more than 10 grand. also extend the relief period. surely they'll at least do that, thought i haven't heard anything about it...

I think extending the relief for federal loans was one of the EOs, map!