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

did biden actually say the vaccine didn't exist when his administration took office?

That kid who asked Biden the question, her name was Layla. "That's a beautiful name," Biden said. Wish he'd gone on: "Great album, too--I used to get stoned to it all the time."

The mayor of Colorado City in Texas really isn't into the whole "public servant" idea, is he?

Colorado City, population 4000? Fuck off, my zip code has 31,000 residents this guy is an HOA president with pretensions

When a mother asked why her special needs child isn't on the listen, Biden suggested she stick around after the town hall so they can talk.

I know I'm gonna sound like one of those resistance twitter nuts but I genuinely got a little emotional hearing the President of the United States say that

Joe Biden seems to notice humans.

“The weak will parish”

Yeah I saw that. Thought if you parish you'd be relying on church charity

Really hope she doesn't leave politics.

1. Who cares what school someone went to? Entire generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism. This is wrong.

2. Nowhere does it say we must trade-off early childhood education for student loan forgiveness. We can have both. https://t.co/5oPKeMfV3r

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 17, 2021

The case against student loan forgiveness is looking shakier by the day.

We’ve got the *Senate Majority Leader* on board to forgive $50k. Biden’s holding back, but many of the arguments against it just don’t hold water on close inspection.

We can and should do it. Keep pushing!

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 17, 2021

(the first tweet there is a quote tweet replying to Biden - I don't know if that embeds on ILX)

If Biden can do anything in texas does taht mean more success next election cycle?
Or does his support for green energy mean he is part of teh problem?
I mean windmills amirite?

Take it he has at least acknowledged there's a problem unlike teh previous incumbent woulda.

The truth is it’s the thermal plants, especially gas, that are failing at twice the rate of renewables, and many times the rate of renewables once capacity factors are taken into account. The disinformation machine has gone into overdrive and this is already a culture war topic rather than an infrastructure one.

wow that sucks that we can only have student loan forgiveness OR early childhood education, but I'm sure it's the same w/ Trident II missiles and F-35's right? They have to pick just one?

Alex Lasry (an executive for the Milwaukee Bucks) is apparently running for Ron Johnson's seat

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-alex-lasry-senate-wisconsin-20210217-mzgretc2dfeudfd6oezowd5pha-story.html

he's done good work with the Bucks I guess. he's actually younger than Ossoff is now

If he wins, it will mean the Bucks ownership group has included a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin continuously since 1985

Looks like he worked in the Obama White House, so he's got some political experience:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/alexander-lasry

It's beginning: A county Republican chairman in Kentucky is calling on Mitch McConnell to step down as Senate Minority Leader over his statement that Trump bears responsibility for the Capitol attack.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 17, 2021

will the Trump/Q/christofascist axis go schismatic or do they want to puppet the meat-suit of the institutional party too badly? Or do they just lack the imagination?

all will be well! why just last night I saw that McConnel was calling for unity in the GOP, a call to unite for the purpose of defeating Biden's covid relief package. Surely they can all get behind screwing the American people out of help when they need it most.

That's what Jesus Christ and his earthly embodiment, Donald Trump, would want.

Look, the party worked very hard to purge itself of anything resembling conscience, they absolutely must stamp out every subsequent spark thereof lest they grow into flames capable of restoring their basic humanity

Love that 'we, as wraiths, must remain devoid of souls' is the hill they've finally decided they should die on.

hurting people’s feelings is the prize for redistributing wealth upward

Honest question: What actual power do these county- and state-level GOP committees have? Like, I get that they might endorse or not endorse candidates during the primary season and at election time.

So if I'm an Adam Kinzinger or whatever I might know I'm in danger of a primary. I may or may not care, thinking that either sanity will return or that their integrity will give them something like a moral victory. Either take my electoral chances, or just go do something else.

Cheney and McConnell are major players with an established power base. To what extent to they care what the Banjo-Ass County GOP chair says or does?

probably depends on how effectively they can mobilize the vote and where they sit in the game of thrones

mitch isn’t on the ballot again until 2026 and he probably hopes he’ll be dead by then

It's beginning: A county Republican chairman in Kentucky is calling on Mitch McConnell to step down

You could stack up three or four dozen similar examples and it would have no detectable effect on national politics, other than being yet another confirmation of facts already in evidence. Mitch is going nowhere.

County GOP chairs are about as likely to get rid of Mitch as Amy McGrath was

I am a senior staffer at The Lincoln Project. I’m also a woman and a mother to two young boys. I have seen a lot written and said about the organization I work for and I feel like it is important to say some things of my own. [THREAD]

— Ryan Wiggins 🏴‍☠️ (@Ryan_N_Wiggins) February 17, 2021

The Lincoln Project was really grooming a lot of young political strategists.

For success I mean.

I am a senior staffer at The Lincoln Project.

Words formulated to ensure that I don't particularly care about any words that may follow.

Unless maybe those words are 'Today I abandoned the grift, and that's okay, and here's why.'

“I just bought a new house because I thought we could keep this grift going.”

They should rebrand as a pop-punk band and call it the Linkin Projekt

That Lincoln Project tweet thread was just a worthless bunch of self-promotion - it wasn't even amusingly written. Why did you think anyone here needed to see that?

They should rebrand as a pop-punk band and call it the Linkin Projekt

― illumi-naughty (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, February 17, 2021 3:05 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've become so numb...

Because watching the rats scurrying about on the SS Resistance Grifter is always fun.

Is it?

I can think of a laundry list of things that are more fun than paying attention to Project Lincoln, starting with “smashing my penis with a big fucking hammer”

eating my own head

being forced to run through a corridor of burning flames to reach safety

I don't know, I couldn't be paid enough to give two fucks about the LP, but I do get a sense of peace watching grifters attack each other and eat their own.

agreed.

remember who these folks are and what they’re responsible for. do you really think Schmidt is remorseful that he helped get George W Bush re-elected in 2004 thanks in part to stoking gay marriage panic

I know exactly who these folks are, which is why I don't give a fuck about what is happening to them whether it is positive or negative. My time is too valuable to give to them.

B-but they called Donald Trump funny names! And people paid them a lot of money to do that, so it was clearly an important undertaking. Say, I wonder where all that money wound up. Somewhere important, I reckon.

FYI my comment isn’t for anyone on ILX

But I do find it weird when ostensibly liberal online commenters get super mad when LP gets dunked on

I saw three nondescript whiny tweets and then closed the browser window

There was a decided lack of any dunking, just someone going "no honestly there are smart young people here" which made me roll my eyes and wonder why I clicked on the link in the first place

I wish the Lincoln Project were smart young people recording multiple experimental/genre-bending covers of the They Might Be Giants album Lincoln

I would be totally OK with them soliciting substantial amounts of money from middle-aged resistance dads with advanced degrees for that Lincoln Project