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

Scott Brown's kid, then Kellyanne Conway's kid

I guess we're only a few years away from hearing Barron bray his way through "My Way"

Stephen Miller will probably be on the next Dancing with the Stars.

Dancing with the Fascists has been on that bullshit for years

(I know you know that, I just wanted to use Dancing with the Fascists)

I mean, might as well rebrand at this point, yeah.

american pop culture is such trash

is the thought that Claudia didn't just show up to audition, American Idol had the idea to invite her cos OMG CONTROVERSY, RATINGS

I know the 'nude photo share' hadn't happened yet but it was pretty common knowledge of the friction she and her parents had even back when they taped

lol DJP

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/corner/pop-culture-filth-proof-john-derbyshire/amp/

^^^ golden great, that one

american pop culture is such trash

uh-oh, rockism-of-culture alert

(jk)

Stephen Miller will probably be on the next Dancing with the Stars.

https://media2.giphy.com/media/eJKrbKD96ULS9sudAn/giphy.gif

I cannot unsee it alas.

The strong, focussed governance of the Republican Party.

Chk it out a friend just told me real history on part time History Channel. I’m in car Something abt Washington

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) February 15, 2021

aliens meme guy

I forget the Britisher here who would not stop talking about how Joe loved fracking so much he wanted to marry it or w/e https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/interior-secretary-nominee-on-collision-course-with-oil-industry-11613318400#click=https://t.co/IDFBD1bOgk

sean spicer gif ruined my life. i look forward to being unable to enjoy anything for the rest of my horrible time on earth

pelosi announced that an independent 9/11-style commission will be created to investigate 1/6

parler is back online

this has been your news on the every other 16:14

I think I'm in favor of a commission, but does a commission lead to anything other than findings--does it, or can it, lead to tangible consequences? If it's just findings, I'm not sure there'll be anything that wasn't already on full display during the impeachment hearings. I guess they could turn up audio of Trump literally cheerleading the insurrection, but short of that, I'm not sure.

Hey Nancy I think we can save you some time, look at the flags the people were holding

I think I'm in favor of a commission, but does a commission lead to anything other than findings--does it, or can it, lead to tangible consequences? If it's just findings, I'm not sure there'll be anything that wasn't already on full display during the impeachment hearings. I guess they could turn up audio of Trump literally cheerleading the insurrection, but short of that, I'm not sure.

Go full Benghazi. Spend years on it. Drag in the ex-president to testify (or spend a full day abusing him in front of cameras if he refuses), and do the same for every other person who spoke at that rally. Investigate every photo of a Republican politician with Gavin McInnes or any other white power scumbag. Put it all on TV. Connect the dots for offline America.

If they can get him in there to testify, full speed ahead.

i scanned “I think I'm in favor of a commission...” as “i think i’m in favor of communism....”
and i was all thumbing “well, yeah, but that’s...” when i re-read.

xp future employers (if that happens) i do not espouse communism, at all, in any historically mostly-enacted sense of the wordz.

I had a 3 hours ago think about the commission, but i might have been daydrinking so i suppressed it.

Elizabeth Warren should head the commission.

I'm not sure there'll be anything that wasn't already on full display during the impeachment hearings.

It should be able to dig up much stronger evidence of coordination among right wing fascists, militias, and white supremacists and more details about their goals and strategies and lay them out in public, which will help the nation understand the threat level from right wing extremism.

The more these are laid bare and tied to Trump's policies of encouraging them and allowing them to operate freely and openly, the stronger public feelings will run against those groups and Trump, make it much harder for a new Trump to arise, and easier for the government to confront and contain them.

Plus, it will put Jan. 6 back into the news cycle at intervals. Americans are amazingly good at forgetting almost anything with less televised, visceral horror than the 9/11 attacks. The more often the story of this event is told and reinforced, the better.

Elizabeth Warren should head the commission.

Katie Porter

A Bill James tweet from today:

"Throughout American history there has been a famous or notable person who just vanished off the face of the earth every 40-50 years. We haven't had one since Jimmy Hoffa, so we're a little overdue."

He didn't mean it as such, but it's a nice thought.

I have no reason to think he’s not dead.

he'd be a hundred and seven if he hadn't disappeared, safe to assume he's dead either way

lol

What I meant was, Trump might be that next overdue example.

(You may have actually got that, I don't know--as I've said, I never know half the time anymore if I'm being fished into explaining something I don't need to.)

I got it, and then I meant to quip that as far as I’m aware Trump could be dead, and then sic deliberately took me to referring to Hoffa, who if he still lived would be of an extreme age, and then I lold

Okay, that makes sense. "LOL"s often leave me befuddled--at me, with me, around me?

Washington County, Pennsylvania, GOP Chair: “We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to ‘do the right thing’ or whatever” https://t.co/YQIsMP1xGm pic.twitter.com/FKgN1hJxFl

— J.J. Abbott (@jjabbott) February 16, 2021

it's only been two hours since Trump made a public appearance tbf

(doing a drive-by support wave to a line of pro-Trump demonstrators)

too bad he wasn't rammed by a semi truck

"We did not send him there to ‘do the right thing’ or whatever”

Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden think this mindset should have better support nd more power.

as zings go, I've seen better

it's only been two hours since Trump made a public appearance tbf

(doing a drive-by support wave to a line of pro-Trump demonstrators)

video here but it's not going to enrich yr life

I try not to watch videos

so much attention is paid to trump materializing but what about trump dematerializing

"Elizabeth Warren should head the commission."

Katie Porter

― shivers me timber (sic)

Was making a "Warren Commission/Report" joke.

ahh

Both commissions coming to the conclusion that a Cruz did it.

Was making a "Warren Commission/Report" joke.

I missed that too--that's good.