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

map, i agree with you that it's an extremely weak one step (though it would have a substantial material impact on many people's lives - just not necessarily a game-changing one in most cases). i just found table's "i have no confidence..." post sort of closed-off, and basically wanted to pin it with a "okay, so if it actually does happen, will you come back and revise this post at all?" i guess it's a good thing ILX does not have a reminder bot though.

I mean, when he talks to the camera it's as if a mule kicked him in the head three minutes ago.

He has competition, but Rob Portman might be the dumbest senator in that hallowed chamber.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, January 25, 2021 9:37 AM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

might be the dumbest senator

Senator Tommy Tuberman seems like the newest champion.

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Monday, January 25, 2021 9:49 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

MASSIVE Ron Johnson erasure right here.

Doctor Casino, I'll revise my take somewhat, but only insofar as granting that these *absolutely craven ghouls* gave their constituents that *fucking pittance* instead of giving everyone below a certain income level *$2000 a month as long as the pandemic lasts*, which is the only sensible, empathetic, and moral thing to do. But the United States is not a sensible, empathetic, or moral country.

BREAKING: President Biden signs executive order repealing Trump-era ban on transgender people serving openly in the military. https://t.co/6uPeb9Flws

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 25, 2021

We’ll get the $1400 because even the Democrats can’t screw it up that badly.

i just found table's "i have no confidence..." post sort of closed-off, and basically wanted to pin it with a "okay, so if it actually does happen, will you come back and revise this post at all?"

Table starts from the premise that *all* politicians (all of them!) are actively uninterested in helping "us common peasants." There is certainly a valid critique of the distorted incentive structure in U.S. electoral politics that too often prioritizes the interests of the donor class. But it's hard for me to look at someone like Rep. Lauren Underwood, a former nurse, and think "She doesn't give a shit about her constituents."

@ table - fair enough!

What are the odds Portman is replaced by a former football coach? I’d say....quite good.

Definitely excited about the prospect of a Congress filled with gun toting conspiracy theory nutjobs, retired football coaches and stolen valor asshats.

We’ll get the $1400 because even the Democrats can’t screw it up that badly.

― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Monday, January 25, 2021 4:50 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

somewhat heartened if milo thinks so but i have my doubts

Table starts from the premise that *all* politicians (all of them!) are actively uninterested in helping "us common peasants." There is certainly a valid critique of the distorted incentive structure in U.S. electoral politics that too often prioritizes the interests of the donor class. But it's hard for me to look at someone like Rep. Lauren Underwood, a former nurse, and think "She doesn't give a shit about her constituents."

― jaymc, Monday, January 25, 2021 4:54 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a silly counterargument as these are structural issues. table's critique isn't "valid" or "too often" it's simply "reality" and "as much as can possibly be done in order for 'reasonable' people like jaymc to still believe that politicians are still fairly inclined to help people because of their personal beliefs and former professions".

xpost

urban meyer just took the jaguars job

jim tressel isn't that beloved esp. because they had to vacate a bunch of victories due to ncaa violations, he's way out of it now, just has some job a college somewhere in sports admin

any ex pro coaches from ohio are pretty hated haha

I could see Ben Roethlisberger going after that seat. His time in the NFL is about done, he's a native son and he has the requisite checkered past.

or he could just play golf and get tanked and be a zillionaire

i personally have never seen too much big ben that would indicate he's be into politics but maybe i guess?

i feel like a pro QB can luck into some tv gig and get paid way more to just talk shit on TV and have half the year off

as a card-carrying democratic party operative, i am obligated to mention that i too believe that lauren underwood actually cares about the people she represents. lots of representatives do. they're not all josh hawley and coach out there

Xpost He sexually assaults women, would put him in good company in Congress

i also think it's a good thing to shy away from "EVERY" politician and "NEVER" and "ALWAYS" and those kinds of ways of thinking and styles of predictions. if you predict ALWAYS, you will NEVER be right lol

Unreal. The president halted deportations for 100 days but ICE is refusing to fully cooperate. https://t.co/L6omEgte4y

— josie duffy rice (@jduffyrice) January 25, 2021

i mean roethlisberger made $2.1 million A GAME last year i don't think he's gonna want to do a bunch of work for $200K a year

When President Donald Trump announced that Sarah Sanders would be departing her job as White House press secretary in June 2019, he urged her to run for governor of Arkansas. “She would be fantastic,” Trump tweeted at the time.

Now, less than a week after Trump himself left the White House under the cloud of a second impeachment, Sanders announced in a nearly eight-minute video Monday that she’s following his suggestion. Sanders, who endeared herself to Trump’s base while combatively — and sometimes misleadingly — sparring with the press, is seen by many as an early favorite in the race to lead a heavily GOP state where Trump’s role in the U.S. Capitol riot may not hurt her appeal.

“I took on the media, the radical left and their ‘cancel culture,’ and I won. As governor, I will be your voice, and never let them silence you,” Sanders said in the announcement.

turds!

how did she win? she quit her job. not everyone can win, sarah.

You win when you've said the words 'I won', duh

now seems like a good time to get the fuck out of Arkansas if it's at all possible

Arkanexit

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has the mien of a PTA chair who chugs a cough syrup and Liquid Paper cocktail in the car before the meetings, so she's ideal for Arkansas.

Rudy has a podcast?!

This $1.3 billion Dominion v. Rudy Giuliani suit is peak comedy. The lawyers must have had an incredible time writing this. The allegations of grift here are extraordinary. Undermining democracy to sell more discount cigars and OmegaXL supplements https://t.co/BarFmttNVF pic.twitter.com/uZ1G14a3MD

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) January 25, 2021

Sarah Sanders would be the meanest assistant manager at a Conway, AR Hobby Lobby if her dad hadn’t played a clown on cable television

hahaha

It's not really a 'podcast' per se... just him rant-riffing on YouTube, like a million other cranks.

to be fair he also has a show on WABC

The cop in Tacoma accelerated through and ran over pedestrians (a crowd of randos watching dickheads do donuts) at 18:45.

A spontaneous protest was taking place by 8pm.

In August, Pierce County diverted COVID response funds to a cop project to monitor specific organisers who had been coordinating protest against, and calling for the arrest of, the individual cops who murdered Manuel Ellis in March.

Two of those organisers arrived at the protest between 8 and 8:30, sat peacefully in place, and were searched without consent and arrested without Miranda reading before 9. They were held overnight until hat-passing raised their bail.

A co-organiser of one of the arrested ppl has clarified that the immediate response was a candelight vigil, as opposed to the protest convened for 24 hours later.

the woke administration has logged on

The Biden administration is "exploring ways to speed up" release of $20 bills featuring Harriet Tubman after the Trump administration delayed the movehttps://t.co/BIIfpJByi6

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) January 25, 2021

It's symbolism, but it costs nothing and doesn't have to wait for Congress to act. Do you have a problem with it?

no but i have a problem with you trying to engage me after i've made it clear countless times i have no desire to interact with you!

unless you want to give me 100 harriet tubmans in which case i can offer you an image of someone stroking his chin in every response

pffft

xp@me wait I misread that: it was a sit-in, vs the march last night.

attemptedmurdercop is six months away from retirement. guess they hadn't found time to do the "de-escalation vs plow pedestrians down with your SUV" training yet! or the "open the door and speak to citizens" training. he's probably been too busy investigating and prosecuting corruption and corporate crime for the last 29.5 years.

(you'd think "how to reverse" and "turn the steering wheel to drive away" was covered in driving lessons, but I'm not familiar with the process here)

Biden up here talking about being open on negotiating the $2000 Stimulus check? did these fuckers not campaign on sending out a check or did i dream that?

This is depressing.

I erred in our weekend Senate story suggesting that @SenatorSinema might be entertaining a shift on the filibuster.
Not so, says spox: "Kyrsten ... is not open to changing her mind about eliminating the filibuster."
It's not just @Sen_JoeManchin, folks!https://t.co/IMRltbvMWW

— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) January 25, 2021

and Mitch playing Jedi mind tricks on the weak minded dems is no surprise

Supposedly he's saying (so far) that he's open to negotiating the income threshold for the $1400 checks.

I wonder if any betting sites have set over/unders on GOP House seats after the midterms...

Supposedly he's saying (so far) that he's open to negotiating the income threshold for the $1400 checks.

well fuck that bullshit!! when they base it off of tax previous years tax returns that don't mean a damn thing to a lot of people at this point.

i think the current idea is just to increase your 2021 tax bill by $1400 if you're over the income threshold.

Easy

33 EOs so far

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/biden-executive-orders-day-six/index.html

it's cool how the US is back to being a monarchy!

(and yes I probably approve of all 33, but what a broken system)

TBF a few of those are just reversals of Trump's own unilateral executive orders

i mean the Executive branch has way too much power, don't disagree there, and would love to see that addressed and curtailed to a ridiculous degree. but with a split Congress it's the only way to do anything now as a President due to the tribalism present - with a Dem Congress right now, it should slow down once he's done reversing Trump's racism.

but I do miss the days when people uttered the old chestnut "the President's powers are limited" and it was actually somewhat closer to true. kind of scary how much it's expanded in just the 21st century.