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

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will deploy more than 1,100 troops to five vaccination centers in what will be the first wave of increased military support for the White House campaign to get more Americans inoculated against COVID-19...

yeah right.. they're coming after our AR-15s, warned you this was coming when the commies came to power

The troops can help persuade vaccine skeptics that it's really in their best interest to get the chip implanted

I would think that at one point at least the idea of a biparty state relied n each of tehm pulling equally in different directions but acknowledging the balance of the other. But once you start going down some looney anti representative path or at least not viewing everybody regarded asa citizen as being represented you lose the balance.
BUt then those people regarded as citizens were exclusive for a great deal fo taht time.

So is the idea of a strong counterbalancing opposition party a defunct idea now taht they've shown how little they care.
Maybe they just need a strong opposition party which would never be the GOP again.
& maybe it needs grassroots opposition to its worst tendencies to try to keep things on an even keel just as long as it isn't mindless thuggery passing itself off as grassroots opposition

let's get those empty Wal Mart FEMA camps fired up baybee

And will finally be appropriately punished for his wrongdoing, at long last.

Thanks, I needed that laugh this afternoon!

Some (somewhat less conspiracy-minded) Trumpalo FB friends were wetting themselves over this article today. Started reading, but peaced out after a few paragraphs.

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

it's good reporting that is framed really weirdly and irresponsibly

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

perfect for conspiracymongers to freak out about

I'm not going to click on that, but here's what I think it's about: the government intentionally allowed covid to spread as a distraction, and when people weren't paying attention they put the calendar on hold, so that it's actually 2020 *right now* but everyone *thinks* it's 2021, and while Biden is complacent in the White House convinced he's in charge, Trump is not only still president but currently running unopposed for reelection.

Was I close?

That's the vibe I was getting. "This isn't what [they] think it is"

XPS

Meanwhile, Always Be Closing:

Parler Wanted Donald Trump On Its Site. Trump’s Company Wanted A Stake. https://t.co/qsdgXrhGbj via @RMac18 & @RosieGray

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 5, 2021

I don't know why but the stupid spelling of Parler irks me

Question: could a Democrat-controlled Senate nix the filibuster for a year, and then reinstate it at some later date?

I assumed it’s a play on “to speak”?

xp

"Parlor" already means a place where speaking occurs

well yeah

I thought these would be the people saying Speak English or die so why are they hanging out in a place with a name taken from French?

they went back to eating french fries too

call themselves patriots?

probably would be exactly the people calling them freedom fries, yeah.

there was already a Parlor: Social Talking app

should have gone with Speakeasy/eazy/eazi or some such

Whenever I see parler I immediately think of parkour, and then I immediately think about all these right-wing idiots trying to jump over fire hydrants and getting knocked in the nuts.

Speaknazi

xp

Shitpo

what about Clapper? watch to die immediately

Clapper users are upping their musical tallent pic.twitter.com/kjUJ2TUinP

— Clapper Cringe (@ParlerCringe) February 5, 2021

JFC

i don't feel good

that is very cursed

and the screenshot makes it look like he is baring four man boobs

Total Recall 2: Total Recallerer

I've met with Republicans, there’s some really fine people want to get something done

"Fine people," decent callback there, J-Man

Lou Dobbs literally cancelled.

wait for real?

shelby's not running in 2022

https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/AP-sources-Alabama-senator-has-indicated-he-15928534.php

wow!!

New York (CNN Business)Lou Dobbs, by far the highest-rated host on the Fox Business Network, has just been canned by the network.

Friday night was his final broadcast, a Fox spokesperson told The Los Angeles Times.
Fox representatives did not immediately respond to CNN Business requests for comment, but a source close to Dobbs confirmed that he has been benched by the network.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Dobbs "remains under contract at Fox News but he will in all likelihood not appear on the company's networks again."

nice! fuck you lou dobbs!!

Yes, Dobbs cancelled for real:

Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs' show and is expected to part ways with the pro-Trump host. https://t.co/fXJYQAtboP

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 5, 2021

Also lol

President Biden, in an interview with the “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell,” said former president Donald Trump should not receive intelligence briefings, citing his “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”

“I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings. What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?” Biden said when questioned.

ahhaha great news

Lou Dobbs 8pm on Newsmax in 5...4...3...

gotta assume it's related to the Dominion/Instamatic lawsuits

shelby's not running in 2022

any irredeemable idiot asshole former Alabama coaches want to jump on that? that way they have a true 'split delegation', ALabama-style

Does Bear Bryant have any dipshit grandchildren?

According to the Los Angeles Times, Dobbs "remains under contract at Fox News

Lou Dobbs 8pm on Newsmax in 5...4...3...

That depends in part on how his FOX contract is written.

calling it: within a decade every state in the SEC will have at least one former Division I football coach serving in the US senate

Dobbs will still remain under contract at Fox News but is not expected to appear on any of its networks again, according to the Times.

The best paid public employees are coaches, so it makes sense that they should lead us politically as well

and you know what? i'm sick of everyone making me feel bad for it, so i don't give a shit anymore. i'll say it:

I LOVE COACH

i'm going to write a poem for coach, hold on