Beware the Ides of March -- U.S. Politics March 2021

C'mon guys this is the real story

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-s-german-shepherd-major-involved-white-house-incident-resulting-n1260169

“We feel pretty confident,” Pelosi said. “I’m so excited. I just can’t hide it.”

She's about to lose control and she thinks she likes it.

when she does the neutron dance, stand back

the dog thing sucks actually

My GF has a rescue dog, he growls at pretty much everybody/everything.

I mean remember FDR's dog

The Coolidges had a raccoon called Rebecca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(raccoon)#/media/File:Grace_Coolidge_and_Rebecca.jpg

I mean remember FDR's dog

my rescue chihuahua turns into a Tasmanian devil the second she's placed on the bed and covers herself with the duvet. you can't even walk into the room without her flipping out and growling. anyway she is otherwise very sweet and I'm not sending her to Delaware.

i wanna get stimulus, stimulus
i wanna get stimulus
let’s get into stimulus
never mind the centrist bloc

My mom owned a series of German shepherds and I never trusted one of them. (To be fair, the first one she had bit me when I was like 3, that's the kind of thing you remember.) The first time I took my wife up to visit the family, we walked in the kitchen door to be greeted by the latest shepherd growling and my mom yelling "Don't look her in the eye!"

Anyway, this is chum to sharks, but here's Rahm saying everything's cool on the minimum wage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/09/rahm-emanuel-republicans-living-wage/

To begin, the package should set the new rate at $15 an hour, tying that figure to inflation moving forward, and giving states the right to opt out of $15 per hour in favor of a floor closer to $12. (This has the added political benefit of forcing those lawmakers who oppose the higher figure to vote affirmatively to cut it.) Then, rather than include a tax cut for the rich, the package should augment the child tax credit and expand the EITC in such a way to allow recipients to claim benefits on a quarterly basis, so they don’t have to wait the full year to receive their allowances in cash.

When I was a kid, my aunt had a German Shepherd named Horst, and the first time my brother and I met him at my grandmother's house, my aunt actually had to walk us out to him in the backyard, where he was lying in wait in the grass, and make introductions. "Horst, this is unperson and unperson's brother - they're OK." We were not allowed to pet him, but at least he knew not to murder us.

I’m sure Republican state legislatures will just be torn up about opting out. That threat has gotten them all to accept expanded Medicaid for the last decade.

Yeah, being in a non-expanded state I had the same reaction. Our GOP legislature would gleefully knock it down to $12 and probably file a lawsuit trying to have the whole idea of a minimum wage ruled unconstitutional.

it really sucks that people who want and need the nice things that people in other states have, don't vote out the people responsible for them not having the nice things ...

I don't trust German shepherds at all, my second cousin's shepherd attacked my other cousin once, never forget that that thing turning on him

There’s a shepherd mix in my neighborhood who’s smallish (40-45 pounds) but plays way too rough with other dogs and kids if she hasn’t had a solid two or three mile walk that day. Just too much energy.

they can snap so quickly

In The Shadow Of Cujo: post your terrifying dog stories here

fuck off calzino

it really sucks that people who want and need the nice things that people in other states have, don't vote out the people responsible for them not having the nice things ...

It sure does. But white people in the South have been hateful and spiteful for a long, long time, appeals to common humanity don’t work very well. They don’t perceive such a thing. (Just speaking for my own state here.)

Co-chair of Las Vegas Democratic Socialists and state party central committee member who helped elect new leadership has an idea for new @nvdems branding because, you know, guillotines are funny!

Let the Reign of Terror begin!

Vive la révolution! pic.twitter.com/vo3KkuquAW

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) March 10, 2021

Sell t-shirts with that logo and easily recoup the money the losers took on their way out the door IMO.

The whole guillotine meme is the weirdest case of cultural appropriation.

Uh

Ppl here know i prefer the head-in-a-basket meme, and i think you will too.

Qu'est ce que c'est dans la boite?

It's just strange, guillotine is mostly a symbol of either short lived dictatorship by the bourgeoisie or killing Algerian dissidents and the whole debate about death penalty.

If France's hard left would start using the electric chair as a symbol of freedom of tiranny you'd be weirded out too.

P sure the guillotine is a symbol of cutting off the heads of the aristocracy.

If Louis XVI died by Mr Sparky instead of Mr Choppy we’d be using Mr Sparky

Sorry I forgot the guillotine is a lady

It's just strange, guillotine is mostly a symbol of either short lived dictatorship by the bourgeoisie or killing Algerian dissidents and the whole debate about death penalty.

If France's hard left would start using the electric chair as a symbol of freedom of tiranny you'd be weirded out too.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3:23 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao now this is a weird-ass post!

Mostly it was used to kill a lot of the revolutionaries.

So what, Saint Just did nothing wrong

All i'm saying it's that it's more a symbol of tyranny than anything.

John the Baptist wished they'd had a guillotine to do the deed.

his last words were "ow, jesus christ, how many more whacks"

All i'm saying it's that it's more a symbol of tyranny than anything.

willing to bet almost everyone using guillotine imagery understands that the Reign of Terror wasn't lol good times but the primary point of reference is lopping off Louis's head.

replace it with a Mosin-Nagant for the Romanov firing squad if you like but that's going to require more explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpb4_LAd6fQ

If Louis XVI died by Mr Sparky instead of Mr Choppy we’d be using Mr Sparky

― Canon in Deez (silby), Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:29 PM (fifty-five minutes ago)

Yeah, but, let's say Louis died by Mr. Noosey ... you might have second thoughts about using a noose as a symbol ... maybe Mr. Choppy is polysemous

If Cromwell had left Ireland alone we could be trading memes about the great axe they used on Charles.

execution toyline for kids

Mr Sparky
death pops out of my mouth

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/0d/00/350d00e740b13d49a62443e8f67a2b27.jpg

I see this has become a fantastic celebration of the death penalty.

Tbf it's still legal across the border and very few people seem to give a fuck about that.

France abolished it in 1981.

Tbf it's still legal across the border and very few people seem to give a fuck about that.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, March 9, 2021 11:44 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wouldn’t fit with the online revolution LARPing just yet.

Who will think of the poor divine right monarchs?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsq3H_6XuFA