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

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

Jerry Van Dyke criminally underrated

coach

who remained calm on 4th and long?
coach. coach was calm.

john: who carried on until dawn on the lawn, don?
don: coach. coach carried on, john.

we made the predictions, but coach made the calls
i love you so much coach

xers r like

https://www.everplans.com/sites/default/files/styles/750wide/public/coach-cheers-750.jpg

You know, man, when I was a young man in high school
You believe in or not, that I wanted to vote for the coach
And all those older guys
They said that he was mean and cruel but you know
I wanted to vote for the coach
They said I was a little too lightweight to run and so I'm voting
Wanted to vote for the coach
'Cause, you know some day, man you gotta stand up straight unless you're gonna fall
Then you're going to die
And the straightest dude I ever knew was standing right for me, all the time
So I had to vote for the coach
And I wanted to vote for the coach

^^^first thing I thought of too...

Saw the typo in the second line, but with all the changing of "play football" to "vote" I forgot to fix it.

President Biden: "I'm going to act. I'm going to act fast. I'd like to do it with the support of Republicans ... But they are not willing to go as far as we need to go"

Says it's an "easy choice" to go with adequate relief over bipartisanship

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) February 5, 2021

adequate relief?

“I’m not cutting the size of the checks,” Pres. Biden says. “Period.” Notes he promised $1,400 and that will stick.

Makes clear, however, shifting the qualification threshold is very much in play.

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) February 5, 2021

xp that's ok, Lou kinda mumbles his way through that song, almost sounds like "in"

xp take it away take it away take it away now

Makes clear, however, shifting the qualification threshold is very much in play.

In a relief package that size, shifting the qualification threshold has nothing to do with the final cost. It only has to do with optics. It is the only provision of the bill that most Americans could even name or explain what its supposed to do. It won't affect me or any member of my extended family, but who in the world are they trying to placate? Ordinary voters they think will resent giving checks to people who make more than they do? What's the theory here, other than play-acting at moderation?

Yeah what else is in the stupid bill? Further enhanced unemployment I hope.

Yes. And money for states to implement vaccination and money for small businesses to help them survive covid restrictions, and other worthwhile stuff, too. Arm wrestling over the exact way the checks are handed out is just somebody's power play.

Wouldn't lowering the threshold reduce payments to 100s of thousands of people?

Millions of people

I was going to write write millions, but didn't want to overstate my case.

Yes, it reduces payment for millions, but reduction isn't elimination. In a $1.9 trillion package I doubt this adjustment would save more than $100 billion. Under present circumstances that is just tinkering for the sake of optics.

It would eliminate payments for millions ($75k+) and reduces payments for millions more ($50k+).

Even if it saves $200 billion, what of it? This is meant to be a stimulus. They can always tax it back next year if they overshoot the mark.

Well okay okay but Big Don better be getting his dang check!

“ Yes. And money for states to implement vaccination and money for small businesses to help them survive covid restrictions, and other worthwhile stuff, too. Arm wrestling over the exact way the checks are handed out is just somebody's power play.”

People could be more unhappy about something given and then taken away than never given and not needed.

PA Lt. Gov. Fetterman Files To Run For Toomey Seat In 2022 https://t.co/UQGoIMf8RR pic.twitter.com/s7OjoJqR3R

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 5, 2021

Running for Senate from a Command and Conquer cut scene

Real American hero

Ok cool but I really want him to either shave the beard or grow a mustache

He's not an extra in "Witness"

You could write to him like Lincoln’s storied little girl correspondent recommending the beard

Thanos 2022!

Rand Paul meets John Fetterman
https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2008/summer/images/lbj-laughs-l.jpg

COVID contamination imo

Lol

Fetterman looks like one of the clones from Clone Wars.

Chris Hayes was trying to argue the you can always tax it back argument a few days ago. So I assume it must be something people are conscious of by now.

Would think that means assessment would be something that took time to do when getting cheques out as soon as possible should be seen as obligatory.

Is there a difference in protocol between a talking point being prevalent and actually being brought up in congress.
Other than it maybe not having been actually spoken out by a specific speaker.
Or to put that another way is it inevitable that if something is a general talking point everywhere that it crosses over to be discussed where it matters.

& I'm assuming that if Chris Hayes is saying it then it reflects wider thought.
Doubt if it was purely original that he said it at least.
& him having said it must mean that others are repeating it or at least mulling it over. & it seems logical enough in itself so would think it would be put forth.

in the middle of lou dobbs' eulogy on WashPost,

The two men spoke regularly, sometimes daily, The Post reported in 2019, and Dobbs’s views on immigration influenced the president’s policies. He was among a cohort of Fox personalities who became something of a shadow Cabinet for Trump. During an annual get-together with the Council of Economic Advisers in 2019, Trump placed a call to Dobbs to consult him, much to the surprise of the attendees.

sooooo pathetic

imagine looking to lou dobbs for advice. hoooooooly

but also, fox and cnn paid him since 1980

hoooooooooooly

and fox will continue to pay lou dobbs. he hasn't lost his contract, he just doesn't have to do anything now. as punishment

this is similar to how normal people are white supremacists and try to be the leading supporter of a coup, but if they fail they just get to be rich and not do anything

well, you know, take those parts of the sentence and rearrange them, we all understand

Just seen that yanks abroad get the new stimulus cheque too. I hadn't thought about that until I came across a discussion of how to do so as an ex-pat elsewhere.
So they're stimulating other economies too.

Are we returning to an age of American interference. Surprised to hear somebody I would have thought of as liberal or even progressive talking about how America was the greatest spreader of democracy on a podcast last week. Gorlumme.

RETURNING to the age of American interference? Listen, there's some stuff you may not have been paying attention to.

ok, it's a constant. thought the last lot were busy screwing over their own people so had less focus elsewhere. I accept there was some continually.

Bullhorn lady is in custody

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/02/05/rachel-powell-taken-into-custody/amp/

Mother of 8. Another family destroyed so a belligerent rich fascist (pleonasm, I know) could feel slightly better about losing

Re: Dobbs, there was another quote in the WaPo piece showing him totally aware that his show had become Trump 2020 TV but not caring at all, because he was so close to death and/or retirement. There was an interview with Rudy some months back where he expressed a similar fatalism. What do I care about my reputation, or doing the right thing? I'll be dead soon enough. Such a gross mindset.

On the other hand, they suspect they'll die soon, so hooray!

I mean, isn't that just conservatism now? They don't give a shit what happens to the world after they're dead. All that matters is that they got theirs while the gettin' was good.

Lou Dobbs owns Lou Dobbs pic.twitter.com/zdhemkaecI

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 6, 2021