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

splin-ter! splint-ter! splin-ter!

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is staring down just over a majority of House Republicans who support toppling the No. 3 House Republican from leadership after she voted to impeach now-former President Trump for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

According to reporting from Politico, at least 107 House Republicans have communicated to the leaders of that effort that they would support removing Cheney from leadership on a secret ballot, while others have threatened boycotting future conference meetings if she remains in power.

The intensifying campaign against Cheney, who called her decision to impeach Trump a “vote of conscience,” signals that Trump’s ideological stronghold on the party continues to echo in the chamber since his departure from office on Wednesday.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-week-the-trump-supporters-disappeared

(given my dumb remarks yesterday, i feel i should clarify that i don't think either party is going to splinter any time in the next 4 years

I won't be surprised if they ditch Liz Cheney, it will play well with the base voters of every Republican in a safely gerrymandered district. I don't think it's a good move in a realpolitik sense, because I think the time for craven Trump pandering being a long-term good thing for the party ended Jan. 6, and a lot of the smarter Republican reps know it. But that's exactly what gerrymandering does, it fosters insular short-term thinking.

i assume some people here hate bruenig but, that notwithstanding, this is good

Some very big improvements in the design were made very quickly. I will of course keep pushing for perfection on this (why settle for less). But I'm glad to see the responsiveness to the critiques. https://t.co/aB0Gi9kWBQ

— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) January 22, 2021

It’s an incredibly stupid, shortsighted and self-destructive idea which I support and encourage 100%.

The Cheney thing, not the Breunig thing

Senior Democratic lawmakers are moving to fulfill President Biden’s desire to expand the child tax credit by drafting legislation that would direct the Internal Revenue Service to send recurring monthly payments to tens of millions of American families, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share knowledge of the internal discussion.

Under one draft of the plan being discussed, the IRS would be tasked with depositing checks worth $300 every month per child younger than 6, as well as $250 every month per child aged 6 to 17. That would amount to $3,600 over the course of the year for young children, as well as $3,000 a year for older children, the officials said.

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The benefit could prove costly, increasing the federal deficit by as much as $120 billion for one year, according to estimates by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group. But it could curb child poverty in the U.S. by more than 50 percent, researchers at Columbia University have found.

hmm. tough choice.

Then people will just have more kids to get more money, right?

spencer cox, the new governor of utah, said biden's inaugural speech was "incredible" and then compared him to reagan, lol. i believe he also wants to fund public schools (gasp!). meanwhile billboards are encouraging commuters to spend money they don't have on skiing. probably following romney's lead, republicans in utah, the reddest of red states, seem unmoored. like.. you could just.. i don't know.. switch parties? christ. but they'd rather form a more purely eagle scout yahoo party than touch "socialism" with a ten foot pole. things aren't changing here so much as stuck in a republican era of the past. we need reeducation camps. $300 per kid per month would also do. - your dispatch from the boondocks

Liz Cheney, welcome to The Resistance

If the filibuster falls and the democrats go all out on an agenda that is weighted heavily toward economic justice, where the very popular center of US politics is, the republican party won't have to splinter in order to falter badly and be kicked to the curb. If the democrats permit the republicans to keep politics muddied, slow and ineffective, the nation and the world are screwed for decades to come. It is time to push all the chips into the pot.

That's how I break it down.

now they make both bourbon and hand sanitizer, too, so there are options.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, January 22, 2021 1:41 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

how's the bourbon sanitizer

yardsign updates:

Kenosha County, Wisconsin. pic.twitter.com/dlr5YBaa86

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) January 22, 2021

god I would love to drive there and put up a "No problem! You're welcome!" sign right behind it

that's not a real haiku

me too, and that's why i envision dems losing every. fucking. chip. xp

Shame-staining is my kink tbrr

Can’t wait for the worst /r/childfree people in the world to whine “what about me?!!!!” on the proposed child payments.

as a child-free person, pay the fuckin' parents!

Cosign.

yerp

whole reason I stayed child free was so I wouldn't need as much money to live, lol

Doesn't that sign person know it's spelled Demonrats

I should be getting paid to not reproduce tbqh

r ya gonna hold the government hostage if not?

1/2 toward paying off debt, 1/2 toward malort and donkey sauce cocktails

I wouldn't know how xp

i know i'm just speaking for my weird little shithole but if utah people got 300 per kid per month for a few years, utah culture would start to change big-time for the better. these people are going to breed like rabbits anyway, you might as well give them an independent means so they don't have to rely on living in lockstep with the head fascists in order to survive imo. would be a good way to put a damper on mlm schemes.

how's the bourbon sanitizer

Beats Dry-anuary.

universally giving people money is a good way to loosen local tribal strangleholds / hierarchies of exploitation

I'm OK with parents getting the money provided they have to sign something saying they won't talk to me about their dumb weiner kids for one full year.

lmao hard agree

Re: that sign, I almost went up to Kenosha this week to buy beer, but then I was all ... nah, I don't want to deal with the weird vibes.

That sign, btw, looks like the awkward punchline to a Mad magazine fold-in.

About time

NEW: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announces a civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

— Andrew Blankstein (@anblanx) January 22, 2021

that's great news, hoping it goes somewhere

child benefit comes to the US?!

$120b would have accounted for... 1.83% of federal spending in 2020. a lot, but interest rates are zero and that money will go right back into the economy. it’s obviously worth it.

long-term it’ll be interesting to see how hard it is to reel all the way back in.

hopefully very hard and they keep giving us money

Okay well I don't want to, you know, approve of too many things, but it's a real pleasure thus far to watch Jen Psaki work.

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feel like the most likely trajectory at this point is big promises squandered as democrats self-own / appease their true masters and media finds ways to soft-pedal / blame republicans until everyone's tired again in 6 months and big win for republicans in 2022, another loop in downward spiral completed

that is the usual pattern but we are not in usual times

Okay well I don't want to, you know, approve of too many things, but it's a real pleasure thus far to watch Jen Psaki work.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 23 January 2021 8:55 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

We get PBS newshour rebroadcast here on SBS and she was on yesterday and how nice it was to have someone from the white house both on PBS and having a civil discussion.

i guess we'll agonizingly proceed to find out if there is enough of people actually getting what they need to force us out of our death cult orbit. my guess right now is more than usual but not quite enough. xp

lol I assumed “Jen Psaki” referred to Joe Biden analogous to the Jzimmezky Craybin naming tradition on the UK politics threads

(please add your own comma)

Well well well

SCOOP: The acting head of DOJ's civil division spoke with Trump about a plan to stop the steal; and then told Acting AG Rosen that he was gonna be replaced in order for the plan to be implemented. And then DOJ senior leaders said they would quit en massehttps://t.co/PYKdMoutm5

— Katie Benner (@ktbenner) January 23, 2021

Just coming here to post that, it's nuts.

think those stories are gonna be rolling out over the next few months.

time to arrest motherfuckers