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

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

i regard my ability to keep distance between myself and groups i find reprehensible to be essential to my soul's well-being but ymmv

the 2024 GOP nomination frontrunner is back awooooo

take your iodine tablets now

Trump is expected to do interviews with Fox, OAN and Newsmax this evening, per spokesman.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 17, 2021

Hesitant to link to a FOX news reporter, of all things, but seeing a lot of noise about the Qrazies glomming onto the "historic inauguration date" of March 4th and, well:

Trump Hotel in DC doubles rates for March 4, historic Inauguration date on which QAnon supporters suggest Trump could still be inaugurated. National Guard remaining in DC until March 14, due to chatter about this date: US defense official.

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) February 17, 2021

Beware the Ides of March!

Maybe he's dying and this is his One Last Score, ripping off the swine who love him.

The worst heist movie ever.

take your iodine tablets now

misspelled "cyanide"

So when he's not inaugurated on March 4th, where will the goalpost be moved to?

uranus

But dOn'T you SeE? The "Biden" in pictures is an actor. Trump is still controlling things. All will be revealed in due time.

Cf. Greatawakening.win

we have a quarantine thread for Q-related posts and it's open for business:

Q is Joe Biden, another non-US Politics thread (Q Anon, Qanon, Q_anon, Joe Biden is Q)

That LP thread was legitimately just like "take us seriously I was stupid enough to give my life to these evil grifting fucks I don't have an out please omg my boss is making me do this"

In other words, reprehensible.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going... to Cancun!

Just confirmed @SenTedCruz and his family flew to Cancun tonight for a few days at a resort they've visited before. Cruz seems to believe there isn't much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing. pic.twitter.com/6nPiVWtdxe

— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) February 18, 2021

"pish, I'm a Senator, not a STATE Senator, fuck em"

What a fucking piece of shit

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

― akm, Wednesday, February 17, 2021 2:53 PM (yesterday)

Biden is not a great speaker, and a very poor verbal communicator. When he says something that dumb and incorrect, wait to see if he says it on another two occasions before concluding that he meant it, and wasn't tripping over his tongue or brainfarting.

Glenn Kessler:

Biden said on CNN: "it's one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn't have when we came into office, but a vaccinator — how do you get the vaccine into someone's arm?" Yep, that's wrong. Sounds bad. But did he mean it?…

A) Did he say something different elsewhere in the town hall? Yes, just minutes before: "We came into office, there was only 50 million doses that were available." That's a clue he knows the vaccine was created when he became president.

B) Is it different than what he said before? Yes, 1/26: "We want to give credit to everyone involved in this vaccine effort and the prior administration and the science community and the medical sphere — for getting the program off the ground. And that credit is absolutely due."

#dementiaWach

Daniel Dale covered that one too:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/fact-check-biden-cnn-town-hall-anderson-cooper-milwaukee/index.html

"Biden is not a great speaker, and a very poor verbal communicator. When he says something that dumb and incorrect, wait to see if he says it on another two occasions before concluding that he meant it, and wasn't tripping over his tongue or brainfarting."

Is this a quote from somewhere, too? Because errr, that's quite some patient one is to have with a potus, to wait and see if he says a dumb thing twice.

*patience

no, that's me. I agree that it's not ideal! but there are decades of evidence that what he says out loud is very often not what he means to say (as a completely separate issue from him saying bad things he sincerely believes, or lying so hard that he has to drop out of running for president, thus ruining his chances forever). not much value in reacting to his off-the-cuff speech generally, in either direction.

I thought the production and distribution networks for vaccine that Biden inherited were inherently counterproductive so is he referring to that as not having the vaccine when he came into office? They now have it up and running and picking up speed.
There is room for improvement, quite a lot of room, but I thought there was a move to both improve the vaccine and teh way it was being handled. Which si not what you could have said for the last incumbency.

I know he's not perfect but I could see very much how he would be the choice of incumbencies you would want to fight rather than one taht yo absolutely couldn't and whose idea of progress would have been to make things much worse wherever possible.

so is Ted Cruz in Cancun or not?

that's what I'm seeing. So glad he's such a tactful caring individual innit?

I believe it has been verified that the photos of him in the airport and on the plane were real, and I thought a reporter got confirmation from someone in his camp that he was headed to Cancun with his family for vacation.

In a better version of our country, this would be the end of his political career.

I'm okay with him going to Cancun if he promises not to come back

I hope he gets diarrhea and explodes.

dehydrates totally would be interesting. is he more moist tahn a lot of people are, oily, like?

I'd rather not imagine "Ted Cruz" and "moist" in the same sentence, thx

what are the odds that he writes the trip off on his taxes as as an expense as he investigates how to make Texans warm?

I'd rather not imagine "Ted Cruz" and "moist" in the same sentence, thx

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:56 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'd rather not, as well, but then I look at him again and find that it's unavoidable.

dude

if theres any silver lining in this brutal situation, i have to hope it's that texas remembers this month the next time they're in the voting booth.

or in the streets with pitchforks as the case may be

Unfortunately Cruz isn't up again until 2024, and the three stooges at the state level (Abbott/Patrick/Paxton) are up in 2022, which despite being next year is still enough for forgetfulness and dirty tricks.

not much value in reacting to his off-the-cuff speech generally, in either direction.

― stilt in the wings (sic)

Move to sponsor this approach to cover everybody who has a difficult job under public scrutiny hereon tbh

Self XP But one can hope. Feel like this was way worse a fail than any hurricane fumbling.

hence the need for TX to call for hearings about what caused this disaster and keep it in the public eye through the year.
also, sadly, it's unlikely this is the last time this problem will surface through 22

really fucked up that Biden sent all of these winter storms to red states simply because they didn't vote for him. might be time to impeach.