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

I hope she cries, and then dies.

What a loon.

Jesus died so she could could do this

Jesus rolling over in his grave.

and he forgives her because she loves him a ton and also don't abort babby

I'm torn between: A) Exposing MTG for being a kooky nutjob conspiracy believer; or B) Completely ignoring and marginalizing MTG as a kooky nutjob conspiracy believer.

Is the media giving her far too much attention? Wouldn't we be better served if she was eating alone in the House cafeteria? She's not that far different from a LaRouche supporter on a street corner, displaying a poster of Obama wearing a hitler mustache.

did someone already share the tweet from the atlanta guy who said Tay-Tay G used to come in the WholeFoods where he used to work and yell at the meat guy for slicing her ham wrong?

haha yes

thinly slices ham is the best ham! she want a ham steak or something?

Ham steak is delicious, tbf.

I think the main point of that tweet was that she didn't even live in her district, but in some posh suburb of Atlanta.

She has a pastel pink Michael Kors handbag, send in the fashion police.

Today is the day that MTG became congressperson:

“I also want to tell you that 9/11 absolutely happened,” @mtgreenee says.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 4, 2021

I think the main point of that tweet was that she didn't even live in her district, but in some posh suburb of Atlanta

if my ride through her district a few months ago was any indication, the folks there just dngaf. absolutely wall-papered in her (and Trump's) signs.

which is why i wish some charismatic lefty hucksters would start running in these districts as Q freaks and then double-crossing them on actual votes. when attacked by conservative outlets, just say "it's all part of the plan to get closer to the baby-eating cabal and why are you doing the work for the lamestream driveby media sheesh"

Cool, Marge, cool. Now what about Sandy Hook?

Yeah, MTG lived (lives?) in Lucy McBath's district and originally was running there. (She switched when the R incumbent in what is now her district announced he wasn't going to run for reelection.)

GOP always up in arms about things that are "unprecedented" without ever conceding that they're unprecedented because of the GOP.

Party of norms just happens to be thoroughly abnormal.

I'm loath to post Trump updates, but this is rich:

Raskin to Trump: "Two days ago, you filed an Answer in which you denied many factual allegations set forth in the article of impeachment ... In light of your disputing these factual allegations, I write to invite you to provide testimony under oath."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 4, 2021

Haven't seen this posted but apologies if I missed it: https://www.ajc.com/news/militia-alliance-in-georgia-signals-new-phase-for-extremist-paramilitaries/UD2JMQV5A5EABHHAKBQZBK2IVY/

In the saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud hall of fame for this (from the guy who headed up MTG's militia security during her campaign):

“For the last 150 years, the Imperial Yankee culture of the northeast has been molding Georgia — and the South in general — into its ‘perfect’ image,” he said.

By "perfect image" obv he means Black and Jewish senators.

Fables of the Reconstruction indeed

Yes! The Imperial Yankee culture of the northeast absolutely imposed Jim Crow on poor, bullied Georgia, then in 1964 did a massive U-turn and imposed its indomitable will to abolish it. When will those damn Yankees make up their minds?

The Imperial Yankees was a high point in Nugent's career, imho

are we talking the 1920s or 1990s yankees?

the Mattingly wilderness years!

Trump trigger warning, but this is lol-worthy. Two weeks after leaving office our former president is proudly touting his work on Zoolander.

Former President Trump resigns from @sagaftra union. "You've done nothing for me." Union response: "Thank you." @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/Sr8hnpZrgV

— Bruce Leshan (@BruceLeshan) February 4, 2021

So now he's a scab as well as an asshole

god even his stupid signature is still triggering to me

Obviously he held off resigning until today, when the 2020 SAG nominations were announced--he must have been banking on a nomination for something or other.

omigod the first point:

Here is the 285-page, $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit that election tech company Smartmatic filed today in state court in Manhattan against Fox, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell: https://t.co/VYwrKETtyS

Intro: "The Earth is round." pic.twitter.com/dZzyPBuIvd

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 4, 2021

Good to see he's back to (essentially) tweeting about show business bullshit, all the funnier and more desperate because we all totally know he probably had something like that seal at the top years and years ago.

"While I'm not familiar with your work..."

Not a Saved by the Bell fan?

Amusing that he's so proud of so many "As Himself" credits. What a dramatic range.

Anyone interested in a long read about the GOP's future vis a vis the T-cult:

https://bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-apophenic-thrall

(Apologies if posted already)

Or, I guess, the structure of beliefs of the cult? idk, it's long

One thing I need emphasize now is that because it is a structure of feeling, Trumpism is unstable and impossible to describe coherently as either a set of claims about the world or as a particular constituting public. Put differently, if it seems like I’m playing fast and loose with who belongs in the Trumpkin tent or what conspiratorial claims make up their worldview, that’s by design. It’s people who believe the vote was rigged and the election was stolen. It’s people who think Antifa stormed the Capitol. But it’s also people who see Cultural Marxism lurking in a offhand use of the phrase “speaking truth to power.” It’s people who are obsessed with George Soros and it’s people who have common, if disturbing beliefs about Christ’s imminent Second Coming. It’s pizzagate and birthers. And, of course, it’s Qanon. That no one believes in all of it and that some of the constituent beliefs are contradictory is the point. Trumpism is how these disparate, fractious, and contradictory positions become a unifying feeling about the world and, thus, come to obtain an articulated, actionable cohesion that they would otherwise lack. Trumpism is the structure of feeling that knits these disparate elements into a political force.

I don't appreciate Trump talking to Andrea Zuckerman like that. She is the editor-in-chief of the West Beverly Blaze after all.

xpost It's people with an inchoate-yet-palpable sense of free-floating aggrievement who will latch on to any notion, however incoherent, that marginalized communities are to blame. They differ from standard-issue GOPers only inasmuch as they've curbstomped the shit out of all rational thought.

xpost Trumpism never seemed to be for anything, only in opposition to everything

he's for himself!
which means he must be opposed to everything, because of the lies about him

Expected but still good to see

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/04/us-end-support-saudi-led-operations-yemen-humanitarian-crisis

Knowing there'd be risks, I really wanted to see Trump testify and get nailed to the wall. Not surprisingly, he won't be. Guessing it took a monumental effort to talk him out of that.

(He has bigger issues than impeachment to deal with, like the whole Screen Actors Guild thing.)

wanted to see Trump testify and get nailed to the wall

no way he could wriggle his way out of that situation, no, siree.

Agreed--that's what I meant by "knowing there'd be risks." But I still think, given a choice, most of the Republican senators wouldn't want him anywhere near the trial, and for good reason.

Republican senators wouldn't want him anywhere near the trial, and for good reason

His lawyers most likely feel the same way about it.

Is that letter to Andrea Zucker genuine?? Indistinguishable from parody

good pareene piece on stimulus negotiations

https://newrepublic.com/article/161236/biden-democrats-congress-stimulus

Then, upon very publicly determining to go it alone, the Democrats began negotiating among themselves, as the more conservative members of their caucus sought to make the centerpiece of the package stingier. Seemingly overnight, talk of Biden being open to narrowing eligibility for the $1,400 stimulus payments became a new (but still not finalized) plan to do so. If he does move forward with the narrower plan, Biden will have actively broken what he claimed was a promise that all the households that qualified for the earlier round of $600 payments would receive another check.

but on the other hand, this is progress...

But in terms of lessons learned from 2009, it’s even more interesting that no Democrats (yet) have taken public credit for their moderating influence on this bill. Informed liberals have no Max Baucus on whom to train their ire (even if we can just assume it was Joe Manchin). As I wrote last month, people invested in the success of a Biden administration have less to worry about from politicians afraid to do unpopular things than they do from lawmakers who wish to block (or delay, or water down) popular things without taking public responsibility for doing so. This probably won’t be the last time Democrats in the Biden era end up cutting compromises with seemingly nonexistent negotiating partners.

Oh the SAG letter is very real, of course.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/04/trump-quits-sag-465965

this guy is so far beyond parody