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

"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.

Good thread

This is significant. The House is on track to pass a $15 wage in the Covid bill. If it survives the Byrd rule then a federal minimum wage hike becomes likely. Senate Democrats aren’t all on board with $15/hour but they unanimously want to raise the current floor of $7.25/hour. https://t.co/oD46CrARW4

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 15, 2021

Saw Drumbo french post a quote from Pelosi and Schumer about how inhumane it was to add financial riders to emergency bills. I assume he was talking about that appendage. Not sure how widespread that idea is cos thankfully don't have a load of right wing brainworm eejits on my feed.

it *is* kind of cool that we live in an age when legislative minutiae can be shared by drumbo

New: Rep. Bennie Thompson filed a lawsuit in federal court today against Trump, Giuliani, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers alleging they conspired to interfere with Congress's certification of the election, in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act https://t.co/suhMsNVyii pic.twitter.com/BIuEAMB0PH

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 16, 2021

that is an unfortunately-named act

At least it's anti!

Here's the full text of the section of the Ku Klux Klan Act, 42 USC 1985(1), that Thompson is invoking to sue Trump https://t.co/VO9EE3Taes pic.twitter.com/1pDpOWthbT

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 16, 2021

um John French is insane with right wing brain worms and you probably shouldn't pay attention to what he says

xxp

"and what is it you CALL this act?!" etc

oof I didn't know that xp :(

This is what President Grant enforced during the wave of white terrorist violence in the early 1870s.

Why are we paying attention to the political musings of the [checks notes] drummer for Captain Beefheart?

cos I took Moe Tucker off my feed and am not seeing much of this from other sources. But thought it might be representative of a certain area of thought at the moment.
Can be useful to know what the rabid are thinking speshly if there's a lot of rabidity going round.

counterpoint: it isn't useful to know what the rabid are thinking

Counting down until we get the Brain Worms Supergroup w/Moe, Drumbo, Eric Carmen etc.

Wondering what that would sound like is hurting me

sad about Neil Peart, they were inching twd a sort of 88 Boadrum

The Traveling Dumbbells

Neil Peart was no right wing nut, despite actually suffering and dying from brain cancer.

Red Cross

Wait why is Peart being brought up

wasn't he a dyed in the wool libertarian/Ayn Rand-stan?

no not really

When he was, like, 20.

He addressed all that later in life

But no, his book Roadshow he complained about George W Bush a lot

His explanation for his Rand worship was "I was 20". He definitely moved a lot more left in adulthood.

well that's good to hear, he wasn't really locking in w Skunk Baxter anyway

He sometimes called himself a "bleeding-heart libertarian," which I just learned is an actual thing! "Neoclassical liberalism, also referred to as Arizona School liberalism and bleeding-heart libertarianism, is a libertarian political philosophy that focuses on the compatibility of support for civil liberties and free markets on the one hand and a concern for social justice and the well-being of the worst-off on the other."

In late era performances Peart had a narrator refute the lyrics Geddy sang as he sung them

"that's an oversimplification of free will actually"

Yeah Peart was a much more nuanced and humane thinker than yr run-of-the-mill libertarian.

No typical dum dum Libertarian could have written "The Garden". Or not with his lyrics

It'd have been something like

The measure of a life
Is FICO plus liquid assettttts"

probably not but I do think a lot of libertarians are p smart people doing gymnastics to justify a sketchy worldview

a lot of libertarians are p smart people

That is exactly the sort of "smart" that aligns perfectly with Trump's debate comment about his taxes in 2016. To my way of thinking, people who understand that their best interests are served by living in a functional society are much smarter than people who rationalize their selfishness like poorly socialized children.

"smart" is relative, alas clever and selfish are not mutually exclsuive qualities

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/adam-kinzingers-family-calls-him-disappointment-to-god-for-standing-up-to-trump

Saw Drumbo french post a quote from Pelosi and Schumer about how inhumane it was to add financial riders to emergency bills. I assume he was talking about that appendage. Not sure how widespread that idea is cos thankfully don't have a load of right wing brainworm eejits on my feed.

it wasn't a direct quote from Pelosi and Schumer, iiuc they sort of drew pictures and hummed it to him and then he transcribed it

god, all these conservative/religious rebukes of the handful of conservatives with half a conscience are dreadful

The conservative/religious tribe, rightly or wrongly, feels besieged and knows their strength is in their unbreakable unity. For any member of the tribe to show disunity or weakness of resolve will invoke the vast powers of the foe and invite the deluge that will sweep them off the face of the earth.

this is white evangelical christianity as i've experienced it:

https://i.imgur.com/DC2zXzI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/VjKJWHO.jpg