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

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?

* like IT was just a cute prank

ATLANTA — Prosecutors in Fulton County have initiated a criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn Georgia’s election results, including a phone call he made to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Mr. Trump pressured him to “find” enough votes to help him reverse his loss.

On Wednesday, Fani Willis, the recently elected Democratic prosecutor in Fulton County, sent a letter to numerous officials in state government, including Mr. Raffensperger, requesting that they preserve documents related to Mr. Trump’s call, according to a state official with knowledge of the letter. The letter explicitly stated that the request was part of a criminal investigation, said the official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal matters.

The inquiry makes Georgia the second state after New York where Mr. Trump faces a criminal investigation. And it comes in a jurisdiction where potential jurors are unlikely to be hospitable to the former president; Fulton County encompasses most of Atlanta and overwhelmingly supported President Biden in the November election.

if something comes straight from the Q Anon is it Qanonical?

Meanwhile, not done on the video front:

House Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol plan to introduce never-before-seen footage of the riots on Wednesday, the first day of formal arguments in the former president’s impeachment trial.

The footage, which may be drawn from Capitol security cameras and other sources, will shed light on the rioters’ “extreme violence” from a new vantage point, aides to the House impeachment team said.

i hadn't seen the footage of that dickhole standing on the makeshift hangman's pole before, pretty unsettling. What's clear as well is that everyone of these "take my country back" chuds is a fucking cunt.

lachlan murdoch firmly caters towards the center-right, which is why they air the fascism happy hour from 8-11 on every weekday

That means the "center right" is what would have been "far right" 10 years ago.

Center-right: "Kill! Kill! Kill!" (but not really)
Far-right: "Kill! Kill! Kill!" (really)

eh i see few centerist aspects to their shitty right-racist catering system. like, their delivery is RIGHT and if you are there, you are more than right-racist curious, to my eyes.

boring md may be right, and it blinkers my view as an old 50+

Not expecting too much to come from this, but one can dream:
The top prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, has opened a criminal investigation of a phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger by then-President Donald Trump, who last month urged the official to “find” him enough votes to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden.

The crowded-theatre argument! I like the analogy of the fire chief.

"That would be like putting Scott Pruitt in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency! oh wait"

Kennedy: “I want the record to reflect that I did not call Senator Sanders an ignorant slut.”

Sanders: “I don’t know how I could take that, Senator Kennedy.” pic.twitter.com/OYPXQJ6FO3

— Jessy Han (@hjessy_) February 10, 2021

what the

Pt. 1--we either win, or we lose fraudulently--they could back to 2016 for that.

"go back"

rep. Neguse killing it again

he's doing a very good job

He and Raskin are both excellent. (I was going post about Neguse and stopped myself--"that's just confirmation bias," etc.). I think it's always a good idea to put new people out front for these things.

I'm glad he is going into the details about how Trump laid the groundwork for many months before

nominating tanden is praxis

The choice to make the OMB director hearing about her tweets made some political sense, but we're on the verge of a $1.9 trillion bill passing and if there's any coherent GOP argument against it... well, it's not at the OMB hearing https://t.co/VAzp7Sa1o9

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 10, 2021

tbf someone probably should have taken Tanden's twitter away years ago

For a month now, the Biden WH has hammered its point that the risk of its $1.9T rescue plan is that it might be too small.

There’s been no real GOP effort to counter that message.

Now 8 in 10 Americans agree with them. https://t.co/uOg3jbTeBJ pic.twitter.com/ix9NDMr49s

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) February 10, 2021

was that just an alex jones cameo in the video?

it's not the size that matters, it's how you use it: 5%

r u saying we only use 5% of our weiner

On that massive midnight vote-dump train to Georgia.

Castro's retort to this: "Nuh uh"

err Castor

#stopthesteal so much worse than #notyourshield ever was in terms of insidiousness

My attention is divided, but did I hear that right--conceding that the senators who were objecting to the electoral count were on the right side of protest? Not sure that's tactically good...isn't one of the core arguments that the one is connected to the other?

I'm not sure that's what was 'conceded', but rather made the point that what the senators did in challenging the EC votes was peaceful and based in debate, as opposed to violent. Not that they were 'right' to do so.

now I want to see Jane Curtain's Bernie Sanders impersonation

(xpost) Bit of a change in tactics, though; early on, I remember a strong desire to hold Hawley and Cruz culpable, too. Not that that was going to happen.

Hawley and Cruz are a side issue to this impeachment.

Meantime

Dominic Pezzola, one of the Proud Boys arrested for the Capitol attack told a court today that he was duped by Trump's "deception" and "acted out of the delusional belief" that he was responding patriotically to Trump. https://t.co/6T8ZzQcU1B

— POLITICO (@politico) February 10, 2021

Best chance of attracting any Republicans is to let them cleanly separate themselves from Trump, not try to tie them to him. It's disingenuous but the only real play unless you just want to make it a big fuck-you.

I agree...it just jumped out at me.

Apparently Hawley's sitting up in the gallery, contemptuously tuned out from everything. Nice.