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

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

beautiful home. lmao

FBI raids Lake St. Louis home, man charged in Capitol riotshttps://t.co/EymOcwVQJl pic.twitter.com/av6Cy9P4XX

— Jeanie Smith (@JeanieSmithKSDK) February 4, 2021

St. Louis suburbs clearly home to some of the worst people.

just another working class joe judging by the house

The forgotten people, ignored by the elites

*sigh*

MTG today (paraphasing): "Yes, I did write those things; I followed and harassed that poor boy whose classmates were murdered; I openly threatened lawmakers and in fact hosted hateful online groups, I reposted Q garbage - and I did support the ransacking of the Capitol... but I'm here to tell you today that this is not who I am."

St. Louis suburbs clearly home to some of the worst people.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:03 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

to be fair to the mcloskey's they live in the high density (lol usa) residential core of st louis!

one of the only good things about the daily mail is that every time a person does something bad, they mention the value of their house in the article to promote snobbishness and resentment and N of small Ds in their readers.

no idea how credible this polling outfit is but still, that's really crazy numbers, not surprised but still

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/537442-poll-64-percent-of-gop-voters-likely-to-join-a-trump-led-3rd

It’s insane

So, 64% following a Trump 3rd, 36% following the Republicans

Sounds like a Dems win next time out!

and then we should tell them all including Trump that we are throwing a party to kickoff the launch of the Patriot Party and that the party is located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

fuckin a

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/04/schumer-biden-student-loan-debt-466054

House GOP Whip Steve Scalise is up. He says he's been "clear for a long time" that Greene's comments were "completely inappropriate."

But now, Greene has "actually held herself to account, he says, because she just said "Jesus died on the cross."

What... is happening.

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 4, 2021

say Jesus, get impunity

PEROSNAL REPSONBIBILTY

People who say and do the most egregious things, only to be caught and then say "that is not who I am" are the most untrustworthy and horrible pieces of shit.

Oh, but "Jesus" so okay...

stripped of her committee seats. 11 Rs voted with Dems.

Do we know who the republicans are?

The aisle-crossing Republicans were Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), John Katko (R-NY), Fred Upton (R-MI), Carlos Giménez (R-FL), Chris Jacobs (R-NY), Young Kim (R-CA), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) and Chris Smith (R-NJ).

Pillow fight: https://www.axios.com/david-hogg-pillow-mike-lindell-mypillow-legate-6d23b1a7-50b1-4f31-9391-53e69e36ca58.html

Schumer must feel death looming, he’s trying to get right with God.

Do we know who the republicans are?

Slightly different group than the 10 who voted for impeachment--one difference being the 11 today included members from the Parkland district.

Only 3 of them voted for impeachment - Kinzinger (IL), Upton (MI) and Katko (NY)

There is of course a whole crowd that believes Trump is still the real president (and "Biden" is being impersonated by a body double as a show presidency).

There is also an alternate universe with the following darkly amusing turn of events: Trump is acquitted, runs again and win again. The "Trump was the tru prez" crowd needs to reconcile themselves with why a third term is permissible

Probably something to do with the nutty "the United States has been a corporation since 18whatever so actually Trump is the 19th president" or whatever.

In similar "brainz, how do they work?" territory...

It’s people who think Antifa stormed the Capitol.

While simultaneously asserting that Ashli was a patriot martyr

And the months of talking about guillotines and the tree of liberty thirsting etc., once there was actual action they were suddenly like "no we just wanted to have a TALK with Nancy Pelosi; it's just that those bad bad antifa people got violent."

There will be a time some day when I'm not even interested in chud talking points. But I can't go cold turkey, I'm tapering off.

so there are only 3 house republicans that were willing to go on record criticizing both the 1/6 riot and a Qanon facebook group owner

From that 3rd party poll: "...15 percent of Democrats said they'd likely join a third party led by Trump."

Da fuq?

looks like statistical noise

It's a poll not a prediction, though. And 15% is pretty high to be all noise.

Maybe both sides are giving bullshit answers now to fuck with the MSM.

Anything in The Hill is suspect.

People who haven't voted for a Democrat since Carter will still call themselves Democrats in polls like that. "2020 Biden voters" would be a better classification.

Cool bullshit poll. Meanwhile the leadership of the country are arguing over whether to forgive $10000 or $50000 of student loan debt?

And 15% is pretty high to be all noise.

nah, not in a singular poll.

Malliotakis voted to overturn the election results and to remove Greene, how does that make sense

only 5% of democrats voted for trump in November, so 15% joining his party would be unlikely

hope this doesn't really happen, R's would instantly lay claim to being the center, the "reasonable" ones. Let 'em have to carry this around for a while.

Lol

.@tomlobianco’s latest scoop: Trump is plotting a campaign revenge tour targeting GOP defectors after Senate impeachment trial. “I’m sure he wants to get out a roulette wheel with all their faces on it,” said one Republican. https://t.co/JzcUnCHgKF

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) February 5, 2021

wait

I think that guy um...