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

That Sinema thing is just so disheartening.

Wish someone would [redacted] Romney and Cotton.

Josh is otm there, especially regarding the need to use paid media to get the message across, instead of relying on free news media or social media accounts. Which runs into a basic problem of who is the custodian of that message and therefore should be the recipient of the money to distribute that message? The DNC is nominally set up to be that custodian, but they can't seem to shake off their deep-seated institutional ineptitude and their lazy fealty to the wealthy writers of big checks. I'd hate to have to send them my money to get this done; it would be like throwing it down a rathole.

Argh, Kyrsten Sinema. Eliminating the filibuster is *more likely* to lead to bipartisan solutions than retaining it. With a filibuster in place, Republicans can just prevent any legislation from being passed by sending an email. But if Democrats are able to pass legislation with a simple majority, that incentivizes Republicans to at least try to negotiate. And in some cases, Democrats will *want* to negotiate if it means that they can pick up Republican votes and then claim that the bill is bipartisan.

want a revolution? keep clamping down, lady. centrist out—

Honestly haven't paid a lot of attention to her, is she hoping for some pork being thrown her way now that Manchin has backed down a little?

that's always the question, innit? does what she says in any way reflect what she thinks and what she wants?

Sinema is useless and disappointing and lame.

Yep but at least she's not McSally or some even worse AZ Repub dilweed

when I think about Ted I think about the Seth MacFarlane movie about a wicked funny teddy bear who says the most crazy things

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I expect little from senators who flip red seats. They count toward the majority, that's good enough. If they can keep the state blue, then there might be openings for a primary challenge down the line.

Checks and the $15 minimum wage are both more popular in Arizona than Sinema. “But red state” is an increasingly lame excuse for the centrists.

An email from the guy who does my taxes. Great system, normal country.

The exact amount is still uncertain, but it's looking like they will start phasing out the funds at $75,000 for single and $150,000 for married couples, which is the same threshold used previously. Your stimulus amount will be based on the most recently filed tax return at the time they start processing the checks. If your income has dropped significantly in 2020, please get your tax documents to us ASAP so we can prepare your 2020 tax return. If your income has increased, we will want to delay filing your 2020 return to ensure you are eligible for the maximum payment allowable.

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― stilt in the wings (sic), Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3:25 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is so tedious, please stop

how has biden not visited texas yet

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:37 AM bookmarkflaglink

usually in emergencies, state officials want the President to put off their official visits because they can get in the way of state and local efforts due to the amount of resources that have to be dedicated to security for the President.

John Bel Edwards actually asked Obama to postpone his visit to Louisiana in 2016 after the devastating floods for this reason. Trump showed up unannounced anyway and got recognized as if he was 'doing more' when a) he wasn't even President and b) he actually disrupted proceedings by showing up unannounced.

fuckin' Sinema

ah fair enough, it is odd he didn't mention texas at all during the town hall though as far as i know?

this is so tedious, please stop

you find it boring to read quotes from ilxors' posts in thread on ilx?

*threads

No, I find your threadcop crusade to copy paste referral links tedious

It’s very good and funny what are you talking about

Just posting

all the facebook link cruft is wayyyy more unpleasant on my eyes than sic's steadfast callouts.

at least Raymond's joke worked because the rapper's name was "Soulja Boy Tell'em/share'token/PUnCw0rG5HKD?fb'clid=IwAR3xRSjGs3kK_IFU2hphJwA0UnUOSrLRP9r5EdT3v42kdrAv0zyd3JoZr80," so the punchline was easy to parse immediately

but dan, do you think the company should, for eg, take the same kind of action against Marjorie Taylor Greene's misinformation? if so, ought they wait until halfway through her fourth term, too?

🙄

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said Tuesday that President Biden should withdraw his nomination of Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget, arguing that the president should instead choose someone who has “not promoted wild conspiracy theories and openly bashed people on both sides of the aisle” with whom they disagree.

surely there can be no greater avatar of bipartisanship

Just passing through to praise sic's steadfastness from across the border.

If you had to choose, would you call a kid Donald or isis?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:06 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I still don’t really know what ISIS is, or if it’s still happening

― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:06 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

We got a new toilet cheap about 10 years ago because its model brand was 'Isis'and people were not buying the "terrorist toilet".

What if you were to pronounce it 'EASE-iss'?

lol terrorist toilet

About 26,200 results (0.45 seconds)

'scuse me, gotta go blow up the toilet

What drives me to her is what drives me insane

this is objectively funny https://t.co/fxfk6GjrhH pic.twitter.com/GaoSFATQio

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) February 24, 2021

Mr. Reconciliation OTM

I'm Mr. Manager!

but suddenly, Dr. Reconciliation entered the chambers

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"And I say we can do things as, um, as sloooooow as possible."

Can clemenza (or any other CNN viewer) confirm this?

Just one month into President Joe Biden's term, the all-news cable channel last week stopped airing the daily White House press briefings. Perhaps the events weren't entertaining enough, as White House spokesperson Jen Psaki has routinely declined to insert Biden into cultural war debates, refused to castigate reporters, and won’t make stuff up in the name of partisan warfare, the way her Republican predecessors did.

There were no blockbuster stories or public crises unfolding back in early 2017. It was simply the D.C. press collectively deciding that every Trump utterance and each one of his administration's briefings had to be carried live, which meant hundreds of hours of free airtime.

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Early on, reporters knew the Trump White House press briefings were a sham and a waste of time. In June 2017, CNN's Jim Acosta called the events "useless" and "pointless" because so little relevant information was being given to reporters.

I read about it on Monday.

I don't know, I thought they were still covering them--I guess I've been watching less myself. The worst thing to me is that they continue to put Scaramucci and Michael Cohen on air, like they're fundamentally different than all the sycophants they castigate. They're not, they just fell out of favour.

My perception is that they are still covering them but I also never watch them, so 🤷🏾‍♂️

to be fair to cnn, the trump administration was a public crisis

my anime teen fan self (recently stirred loose by the discovery of Ranma 1/2 on Hulu) is now suddenly wishing i'd had Bubblegum Crisis deep-cut "Bye Bye My Crisis" on my election results day playlist

just saying what everyone's thinking here

So it turns out Neera Tanden criticized @Sen_JoeManchin's daughter for her extraordinary pay increases, after she raised the price of the Epi-Pen from $100 to $600 and moved Mylan's HQ to the Netherlands to reduce taxes. https://t.co/K59rrwM05N. pic.twitter.com/snYaAK9Xfu

— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) February 24, 2021

the fact that Republicans suddenly care about tweets from 2015 when they spent years pretending like they didn't know who the president was is so infuriating. like, I don't care if you're right or wrong, you fuckers don't get to have an opinion on this

yep, and they (and Manchin) are just going use it as pretext to get someone even worse