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

It's like if you let a murderer murder people in your home but post a disclaimer about how you do not condone the murders taking place in your home. The police are always just like 'okay, cool'.

well Marj is up here reveling in this shit.

Say whatever else you like, but Lindell is an amazing orator. It's like aural butter, listening to him speak. Smooth.

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: "The party is his. It doesn't belong to anybody else." pic.twitter.com/Euig27W1x0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2021

by all means, let the guest who is tooling one off on your dinner table do so while you tell other guests to do their best to keep eating

With his election fraud video, the MyPillow guy is trying to recapture the magic of Plandemic, which took on mythical status when it was banned from major services for being so dangerously wrong.

But nobody seems to care about this one, and he misspelled the title on YouTube.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) February 5, 2021

So far the MyPillow election fraud movie is just Mike Lindell narrating a PDF about how we should probably have a civil war. pic.twitter.com/ABarzx14rU

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 5, 2021

The Mike Lindell "docu-movie" is a rapid run through every minor character from the post-election. Even famous Giuliani witness Melissa Carone is here.

Possibly relevant: Lindell says he's been working 21-hour days on this and getting 3 hours of sleep a night. pic.twitter.com/QDk726lVHt

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 5, 2021

But those three hours of sleep are heaven, natch.

He's a Viking iirc

Also, very notable here on the labor front:

BREAKING: the NLRB denied Amazon's motion, allowing the union election in Bessemer, AL to proceed. "It's long past time that Amazon start respecting its own employees; and allow them to cast their votes without intimidation and interference" -@sappelbaum https://t.co/Bz8DpTxi8v pic.twitter.com/23FsgxPq2v

— RWDSU (@RWDSU) February 5, 2021

I am reminded that one of Biden's first actions out of the gate was canning that NLRB counsel who was a Trump appointee and clearly on the business side of things. Willing to bet that was a factor in this beyond the decision itself.

publicly admitting you only get 3 hours of sleep is such a disastrous marketing move for this guy

Along with, y'know, his every waking action over the past couple of months.

publicly admitting you only get 3 hours of sleep is such a disastrous marketing move for this guy

It's a long way from "I'm not only the president...I'm also a client" isn't it? "No, I don't sleep, I just pace around my mansion ranting at the paintings on the walls. Buy my pillow!"

Maybe he is literally living the dream, and he only sees reality when he sleeps, and it scares him.

publicly admitting you only get 3 hours of sleep is such a disastrous marketing move for this guy

― frogbs, Friday, February 5, 2021 8:40 AM (four minutes ago)

he certainly does have the appearance and demeanor of someone in the throes of a coke binge.

This is the thing I'm banking on: Trump for some reason has the stamina to withstand a 24/7/365 manic episode but something tells me that most of these other maniacs do not.

Josh Hawley is the only senator who has voted against every one of President Biden's cabinet nominees so far. https://t.co/dBVfDGhRTv

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 5, 2021

He’s so thirsty for the CHUDs.

Hawley has a real Greg Stillson vibe, doesn't he

This is the thing I'm banking on: Trump for some reason has the stamina to withstand a 24/7/365 manic episode but something tells me that most of these other maniacs do not.

Drugs! They’re a hell of a drug

I mean it's one thing to be a constant menace to/burden upon your family and neighbors and the deli guy at the Whole Foods two towns over but it's a whole 'nother thing to weather the psychic burden of needling millions of people day after day with your toxic word sludge and peeved expressions and just generally shitty demeanor. You really have to pace yourself lest you have an on-camera meltdown while greeting your Qonstituents at a Buffalo Wild Wings.

I wouldn't doubt that MTG is on speed and White Zinfandel all the time.

Gaetz is a character from a Zappa song that willed himself into existence, right?

Matt Gaetz on Marjorie Taylor Greene's press conference: "That was so good I almost had to smoke a cigarette afterwards." pic.twitter.com/btVwLFf4eJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2021

Has Gaetz lost weight or has his mom pulled at his head with calipers

I’m sure this will be fine.

https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0

Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

It’s funny that Politico predicted Summers would be in the administration and then later it becomes “okay but they’re all reading his op-Ed” and then

Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein pushes back on the Larry Summers op-ed (https://t.co/Rjg7rXm3fd) warning that the $1.9T stimulus plan could be too big and carry its own economic risks: "I think he's wrong. I think he is wrong in a pretty profound way about that." pic.twitter.com/1GiNlxrStB

— Megan Cassella (@mmcassella) February 5, 2021

i imagine matt gaetz to have a workout and personal care regime very similar to patrick bateman

xp "innovation zones"

yikes, that's bad news if jared kushner's favorite policies continue to spread in the post-trump era

innovation zones are tax havens for jared's favorite companies which happen to be in the vicinity of low-income housing. this way, jared gets to show that he is innovating near people who don't have money like him

Every time I ever hear mention of Summers I remember confronting him about monetary policy when I was a teen at a school assembly lol

The continued presence in the discourse of Larry Summers is evidence that cancel culture has not yet gone far enough.

At least he got fired from being president of Harvard for saying girls aren’t good at science or whatever

President Biden not pulling any punches:

"What Republicans have proposed is either to do nothing or not enough. All of a sudden, many of them have rediscovered fiscal restraint and a concern for the deficits."

— Chris Strider (@stridinstrider) February 5, 2021

I don't wish to speak ill of the dead, but I couldn't help but notice that I had no idea there even was a My Pillow, let alone My Pillow guy, let alone what he looks like, until after Powers Booth died. Just sayin'.

Lol remembering people in rage mode in here about a headline from The Hill quoted Biden saying “we need a strong Republican Party...”

oooooh it's a GOTCHA folks

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/MaxheadroomMpegMan.jpg

I thought Gaetz looked familiar...

i mean, he does say a ton of stupid shit

Biden flying to Delaware despite CDC warnings to avoid travelhttps://t.co/NwOhjutfDW

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 5, 2021

Biden should come out and say $2000 checks for everyone.

Really stick it to those Republicans.

even more infuriating that he insists on going maskless in coach

Gaetz is a character from a Zappa song that willed himself into existence, right?

🐦[Matt Gaetz on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s press conference: "That was so good I almost had to smoke a cigarette afterwards." pic.twitter.com/btVwLFf4eJ🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2021🕸]🐦

I know y'all hate Zappa, but c'mon

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

I can envision it now. Inhabitants of these zones live in company-owned housing, built to company-dictated building codes, are paid in "Company Bucks" which can only be spent in company-owned shops, and send their kids to schools teaching company-approved curricula, but they must pay their taxes in US dollars.

I'm hoping Local area currencies don't get usurped into being like that elsewhere too.
Sounded like a useful model when i first heard aboutthe system, kept money in the local area and kept the l;ocal economny alive because it wasn't being siphoned off.
That's the new Jim Crow though means none of the benefit of the money gets to reach the individual worker involved.

Gaetz is a character from a Zappa song that willed himself into existence, right?

― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, February 5, 2021 12:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have yet to see convincing evidence that Gaetz is not Unknown Hinson.

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

Haven't we, um...done this before?

Sure. Reagan called them "enterprise zones.

I mean....am I crazy or is this just a company town?

So-called enterprise zones confined themselves mostly to big tax breaks as the means of luring investment. They didn't allow corporations to run them as quasi-governments.

Reagan's imagination clearly was incommensurate with his followers' Randian antasies.