“It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021

people have amnesia. they won't remember this.

The point is that Democrats politically should hammer these things constantly for the next 2 years, don't let people forget them. Almost every bill, the message should either be, "We did this thing for you even though the Republicans tried to stop it" or "We tried to do this thing but the Republicans stopped it." Because just about everything the Democrats want to do is popular, and "obstructionist special interest Republicans" (or some such phrase) should always be the villains, win or lose.

I don’t think I followed Obama on social media when he was president, or maybe did and just didn’t pay attention. But! At this point I follow Biden and Harris on FB and Insta and let me just say unequivocally that their messaging game is on point in a way that suggests that there’s a strong communications team in place that is gonna make damned sure that people know what the Democrats are about and what they’re doing for you. It’s more than they have to do in my view. They’ve learned more than a few lessons from the Obama years.

(I don’t really watch TV so not sure if there’s any equivalent effort on that front, or on radio.)

I should add: Biden/Harris accounts were on this path prior to this year

"we are going to be working through some things" sez Steve Scalise. Specifically, they are working through how to strip Liz Cheney of her power for voting to impeach while keeping Marjorie in power for her standing in the Trump cult.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/house-gop-marjorie-taylor-greene-465307

can we go back in time and not treat him for his gunshot wounds

I think the Dems learned that running on the ACA was a good, effective strategy, so I can only hope they have also realized that running on other things they've done or tried to do for people (and the GOP has pushed against or tried to take away) might work as well.

I realize there's a lot of serious issues to discuss itt but

An anagram for Marjorie Taylor Greene is Majorly Orange Retiree.

— Parlertakes🇺🇸 (@parlertakes) February 3, 2021

very good disguise or is it?

Heh, just read that Politico story and saw the Space Force story and there are so many unintentionally hilarious quotes:

“It’s concerning to see the Biden administration’s press secretary blatantly diminish an entire branch of our military as the punchline of a joke, which I’m sure China would find funny,” said Rep. Mike Rogers.

"This is just another example of the Biden administration not taking China seriously while demeaning the incredible work of Space Force personnel," said Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), who is a founding member of the House Space Force Caucus.

From: Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.):

"I hope my fellow Democrats will not be too discouraged by the taint that former President Trump put on the Space Force when he tried to hijack it for his own political purposes

Space Force. Trump taint. House Space Force Caucus. I'm absolutely sure China does find it all funny.

Like, who works for Space Force? Does it have employees, someone in charge? Do they carry laser guns? Because they should.

Who is going to fight space if not Space Force, I ask you

how will we ever find Major Tom without them

I would be curious to know exactly how much money each of these grifters who are defending Space Force are making off of Space Force. There's gotta be some sweet government contracts already in play for uniforms and uh...lasers? Freeze-dried ice cream?

Like you don't debase yourself defending Space Force in public unless Space Force is buying you a new Mercedes.

I saw the Steve Carell sitcom based on teh ineptitude of the idea of Space Force had been given the go ahead for a 2nd sries.
Actually started watching the first one and am semi surprised it does have a couple of laughs in it.
Otherwsie would seem to have fallen about as flat as t's quixotic folly.

I thought it was pretty not-funny. The existence of Space Force at all is all the joke we need.

one good side effect of the storming of the Capitol is that their old tactic of tut tutting, don't you support the troops/cops/space force just rings hollow now

we saw them attack the police when it served their purpose, and everyone knew it was bullshit to begin with, but now I get the sense people just roll their eyes at it

xp ..but the mere existence of a sitcom called "Space Force" that beat the actual Space Force to the domain name is a cherry topping on that joke.

sorry, trademark, not domain name, but that's even funnier.

At the risk of restarting the argument about the stimulus, I would highly encourage all the America in this thread to call their congresshuman to demand no means testing and the full 2k. If they get enough calls maybe it would work?

.@SenSchumer says the organizing resolution is done. Once it’s approved the majority party can take the chairmanships and the new senators can take their committee seats.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 3, 2021

“If it’s $1.9 trillion so be it,” @Sen_JoeManchin says of the rescue plan, while also stressing he wants it to be bipartisan

— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) February 3, 2021

Manchin says on Morning Joe that Biden told him, we can’t do what we did in 2009 and negotiate for 9 months only to have Republicans still not vote for package in the end

— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) February 3, 2021

xp That confirmation's what Bernie was talking about on Monday night. But sounds from the thread there as though there may still be further delay.
God, could see what benefit Graham might get from delaying garland getting into his AG role. Is there widespread sanity in sight or is it still having to fight through the ultrastupid

It is really nice seeing Democratic leadership remember history and recognize what the Republican Party is.

I just wrote both my senators

It is really nice seeing Democratic leadership remember history and recognize what the Republican Party is.

― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP)

when I started seeing "Dems scarred/haunted by 2009" last week I thought it was more Beltway signal balloons; I guess they mean it.

sorry can I just-

"It's quiet"
"Yeah, a little TOO quiet"
"That was easy"
"Yeah, a little TOO easy"
"Hey, it's Raph!"
"Yeah, a little TOO Raph"

I mean fingers crossed but this is going roughly the way I expected. Biden needed to make a show of reaching across the aisle in an attempt to stem the hemorrhaging divide in the US but thankfully he seems inclined to limit his calls for bipartisanship to optics only.

I would have loved it if he'd opened the meeting with the 10 concern trolls by saying, "Look, my position is $1.9 trillion. But if you want to go higher, I'm happy to hear you out."

It wouldn’t surprise me if he said something among those lines at some point.

and truly, today was the day Joe become Humanchin

let's leave Jay Leno out of this

"Look, my position is $1.9 trillion. But if you want to go higher, I'm happy to hear you out."

Didn't he actually say something like this, according to reports from that meeting?

lol @ Dan

Is our own Karl Malone working for Newsmax now?

Whoa pic.twitter.com/3mFcA7l3r1

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) February 3, 2021

the audacity of truth

LOL, so perfect that newsmax drops into a psychedelic echo chamber at the mere mention of "that quote from Bernie Sanders" I wish that had happened to the My Pillow guy in the clip upthread: DominDominDomininiumumum.

If you say his name three times he appears, and strangles you with mittened hands.

how will we ever find Major Tom without them

He's dead... no, hold on, that's Captain Tom.

across the stratosphere

a final message

give my wife my love

so sad about those poor oil companies, if they can;t wreck environments how will they fulfil themselves?

auto-erotic asphyx

Oh no. Anything but that. Please. Please no. https://t.co/MVXeNQaX1N

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 3, 2021

Why settle for one win when you can get two? Sounds like the stuff of heroes to me.

Could somebody sell the GOP a nice little country to resign to so trhey can all hang out together and see how well they get along together.
Greenland still up for sale?
I heard teh membership of the party was shrinking in the wake of jan 6th so do they need as much space as they would have done last year?

Maybe they'll get so small we can just build a wall around Mar-a-lago.

xpost I hope Scratch Perry does more of these Newsmax remixes

dub dub goosestep

Der musch put

i'm going through this thing where i would have been supermad if they didn't impeach again but now that it's here, i kinda just wish they would drop it

i didn't realize how great it was going to be to have trump out of the public eye

*this is not a rational political opinion i am putting forth in any way*

^ 100% cosign, down to the 'not a rational political opinion'. Just...go the fuck away forever.