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

but here's one:

thx, km

xp to sic

nice! here's the first part of it, too:

It’s official. If you’ve lost a loved one due to COVID-19, you will soon be able to get reimbursed up to $7,000 for the expenses of laying a loved one to rest.

Proud and thankful to have gotten this done with @SenSchumer, @voceslatinasQNY, @Elmcor, & @HispanicFed. https://t.co/wiS03dp4W4

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 8, 2021

$7,000!? Gotta get in on this “dying of covid” scam

bet those chuds who insisted that the official records show their covid-afflicted loved ones died of something unrelated are happy now

no joke, that'll be the conservative take. "it's a giveaway to people who say that their mother died in a car crash but it was because of covid, and it diverts money away from the true heroes: police"

xp brutal, but lol

I disagree with the notion that nothing has changed. 10 Republicans voted to impeach Trump. 11 Rs voted to remove MTG from cmtes. A large majority of House Rs gave Cheney a pass on her impeachment vote. Now 6 GOP senators voted to try Trump. Small but not insignificant moves.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 9, 2021

this is correct and it's not nothing when elections are won by <5%

I expect red MAGA hats will be the equivalent of blackface in a few years: "I was young & stupid, following my parents; I deeply apologize for any hurt I may have caused."

"I deeply apologize"

i do not expect

"I apologize for how you reacted to what I said. I'm sorry that I assumed you weren't a sheep. I am hoping some day you will understand what I know and can see why I reacted the way I did when dealing with your ignorance. MAGA MAGA MAGA"

Perhaps not universally; but I imagine some ex-Trumplings will want to scrub their facebook accounts, etc.

brutal, but lol

$7,000 for dying of covid once, an imaginary $600 for living through covid for eleven months

master of the house

Oooof that video

I’d seen most of this previously but the presentation knocked the wind out of me

just staggering

I don't like that i'm hearing people who are supposed to be somewhat leftist saying they hope that America can return to policing the World again as I heard one of the presenters on Your Queer Story this week or saying about how America has been one of the greatest spreaders of democracy.
THought in the wake of t they might give that a bit of a rest. I thought both descriptions tended to cover up a lot of ulterior motives.

that 13-minute clip really laid it all out. and Raskin's retelling of his son's death and bringing his daughter and son-in-law to the capitol that day was incredibly moving

$7,000!? Gotta get in on this “dying of covid” scam

Funerals cost a fucking bundle in the US. No idea what it's like where you are. Even getting someone cremated is shockingly expensive when you consider the effort involved (put body on tray, shove tray in oven, check back in a few hours).

my oven's out, can i do this in a crockpot?

when I was still entry level I used to get calls from survivors of recently deceased having to take big hardship withdrawals to pay for someone's funeral and burial expenses. 'not cheap' is an understatement. and a fellow theater performer had to do a GoFundMe to prevent his mother from being buried in an unmarked grave.

That video...I was right there glued to the news during the insurrection, I've seen plenty of footage since then...but that video knocked the wind out of me.

Dear 44 republicans: fuck every single one of you.

Every time I see one of those GOP pigs trying to cancel this event for whatever reason they spew; I think of Benghazi, the Dixie Chicks, Merrick Garland, Yellow Cake Uranium or whatever cockamamie BS the GOP and the right wing media have dealt in the past 20-30 years and think turnabout is a real bitch. They are going to have to watch all of this event over and over on TV and then try to defend it and explain it all away. Have fun a$$holes.

I expect red MAGA hats will be the equivalent of blackface in a few years: "I was young & stupid, following my parents; I deeply apologize for any hurt I may have caused."

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12:04 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i just gotta say, and i'm not explicitly attacking this post, just mentioning it because it's related - i really hate the "wrong side of history" canard. it's so facile and like the ultimate neolib / "end of history" type of thing to say. the earth is literally dying, there isn't going to be any history, let alone some imaginary "masterpiece theatre" room where all the important people pull leather-bound volumes from shelves to righteously remember how they were on the right side of history. also, "history" as it's understood in these uses hasn't done anything to solve racism, racists aren't shamed, all it does is make liberals feel good about themselves.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ec/8d/c2/ec8dc2df5028a09ced0bd352a055a4ca.jpg

Cremations can be $500-600 but if you accidentally step foot in a funeral home it jumps to $6k.

earlnash otm

prevent his mother from being buried in an unmarked grave.

graves are a scam tbh

my mom has been fretting a lot about the cost of her own funeral including the cost of transporting her body (she's fairly healthy, so probably not happening any time soon), so my brother convinced her that he would personally convey her body to a crematorium if necessary. It's probably completely illegal, but seemed to set her mind at ease.

Publicly offering $200 for last minute work from “top-tier” artisans should get you put in the stocks for 24 hours.

The WaPo is giving David Hogg’s “pillow company” an exclusive feature for the design of their “company” logo that is not complete and they need in 2 hours. pic.twitter.com/Gn8Qx7uOGp

— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) February 9, 2021

At least be too embarrassed to openly make insulting offers.

I've been assuming the entire pillow company concept is a troll; if so this could be part of the whole schtick. Shitty if not obv.

"incredible opportunity! apply to be our first graphic design intern by submitting our finalized logo!"

Jimmy Carter reportedly pulling an all-nighter as he furiously deletes tweets and Facebook posts from 1979.

re: Parliamentarian - when I was a child, I had a hopeless unrequited crush on the daughters of the then-senate Parliamentarian

The Cheney sisters went to my high school but I wasn't close to either one, socially speaking

The only memorable political child I had contact with was Strom Thurmond's daughter, who was in my AP Government class

David Hogg is annoying AF on Twitter, sorry, have to say it. Obviously I endorse his cause and gun control. But I had to unfollow him and I do not give a fuck about this pillow ploy. He is still young and kind of dumb, as evidenced by his offer of $200 for a logo design.

yeah that movement may need to enter the post Hogg moment

amazing that MyPillow is only the second most embarrassing pillow company of 2021

In the future all our politics will be about what pillows you buy

and to think we used to buy them by how nice they are to fuck

buddy they don't even let me fuck them

It’s probably not a real pillow company, but man what if it is

When Lachlan Murdoch was asked on this morning's earnings call about the loss of viewers at Fox News and the rise of far-right outlets like OANN and Newsmax, this is how he responded: https://t.co/qgaVK1Y7iu pic.twitter.com/ttFC8i9v3s

— Edmund Lee (@edmundlee) February 9, 2021

"The House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure released a transportation funding proposal for the next round of COVID-19 funding that includes $1.5 billion for Amtrak and $30 billion for transit along with mandates to restore daily service on the long-distance trains and bring back workers furloughed due to the pandemic."

The bill is scheduled to be marked up by the committee on February 10. That means we need you to reach out today to contact your representative—particularly if they are on the T&I committee.
And: 1. Express your support for Amtrak’s funding and the mandate to restore service and workers.
2. Ask them to oppose the amendment offered by Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), which would entirely strip out all funding and restoration mandates for Amtrak.
3. Support inclusion of the $30 billion for mass transit systems.
With the markup scheduled for Wednesday, 11am Eastern, the time to act is short! Thank you for your help on this.

re the pillow

To those of you who marched, donated, lobbied, and called for change... I’m so sorry this is what it turned into. This is embarrassing.

— Cam (@cameron_kasky) February 10, 2021

video more shocking that anything i really saw at the time (not least because of the fatal shooting). and 95% filmed from the protestors point of view.

This photo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PH42WTDLAUI6XJTO4JYEN2PITA.jpg&w=916

The clip of the insurrectionists with a POLICE LIVES MATTER sign who chanted ‘fuck the Capitol Police’ was my “favourite” bit.

Fuck the Capitol Police coming straight from the Q Anon

video more shocking that anything i really saw at the time

Yeah it became clear over time that there was truly horrific stuff going on, and yet everybody kept using pictures of the clowny viking guy and beardo-with-the-lectern. Like I was just a cute prank.

The reality of the person being crushed in a doorway while people thought it would be fun to pull his mask off? Not so much. THAT is the shit that needs to be answered for. Not a dork with a provocative t-shirt or someone sitting at a desk.

They beat. A person. To a pulp. With an American flag. Maybe just for a second can we focus on that more than Qey McGoofball?