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

it's gonna use Frames, and have a visitor counter and guestbook at the bottom

― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, March 12, 2021 12:55 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like these chuds could do well to bring back webrings.

oh man i was just typing “WELCOME TO THE CONSPIRACY SEDITIONIST WEBRING”

hahaha

A sneak peek:

http://www.arnulfocasco.com/images/juice.jpg

hey some of friends were members of webrings!

actually though -- they really should resuscitate Flash.

“Every word out of their mouths is going to say Dominion, Smartmatic fraud, vaccine fraud,” Lindell told the cheering crowd, describing the content on Vocl.”

I like this biz plan tbh it will take him places

vocl needs the ability to embed realaudio clips in posts

omg ... plugins ... no page will work unless you download a plugin

honestly the most hilarious hack in my mind is to basically give users an error message saying they have to upgrade to the latest version of Flash to enjoy this content.

can we go back to "the cheering crowd" because waht

pic.twitter.com/WipWA3ZS1E

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) March 12, 2021

for those that care about such matters, biden's first two gallup approval ratings have been 57% and 56%. both of those exceed trump's high water mark of 49%, earned in may 2020, when he was just really kicking ass and taking names

wait till people start getting money

yeah, and also i think the most recent one (56%) covered feb 3-18, so nothing after recent events

hey guys

David Brooks is on our side: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/biden-covid-relief-bill.html

Eurgh what side would that be

the fact that conservatives have spent two weeks complaining about the unpublishing of racist Dr. Seuss books they've never read kinda to how difficult a time they're having complaining about Biden. these fuckers will whine about everything and all they've come up with in a year is "Sleepy Joe"

I keep coming back to my...dumbfoundedness at not hearing a single conservative hogging up the media landscape in the last few days yelling about Stalinism. I know Trump is their own Stalin, but my whole life in politics has primed me for conservative guerrilla war.

Turd Blossom ain't around any more to set the agenda, the noise machine is rudderless

mike lee was saying that the devil literally wrote the bill himself a few days ago but now he seems to have quieted down, thank u jesus, so idk

The bits of David Brooks columns where he's almost correct are what keep people coming back.

>>There was a premise through American history that if you worked hard you would earn economic security. That’s not as true for millennials and Gen-Z, or many other people across America.

>>I’m [paid to act] worried about a world in which we spend borrowed money with abandon [on things other than wars]. The skeptical headline on the final preretirement column of the great Washington Post economics columnist Steven Pearlstein resonated with me: “In Democrats’ progressive paradise, borrowing is free, spending pays for itself and interest rates never rise.”

Interest rates are never gonna rise again, just like the south won’t.

that referenced Pearlstein column was special - his justification for an $11 minimum wage being "correct" was an article from 2017 using 2016 numbers (which wasn't exactly correct even then)

Yeah that Pearlstein column (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/03/democrats-stimulus-spending-inflation/) is interesting in a lot of ways. He's very grumpy about all the new spending, warning sternly if vaguely that bad things are inevitable, but then he segues into bitching about social media in a super-old-man way and finally kind of throws up his hands and admits that he doesn't really have any new ideas or insights, and announces his retirement.

Pearlstein was good on the 2008 meltdown, he definitely understand the territory. But also by his own admission he buys into a lot of baseline economic assumptions that may or may not have ever had particularly strong data behind them.

(Also of course, bad things may well be inevitable, with or without this spending package. But if bad things come, at least more people will have more money to deal with them.)

It is bizarre to me that anyone (aside from right-wing savages) can write a sentence about 1 in 6 American workers making less than $15 an hour and just zip right past. But I also don't know where he's pulling that number because 40 million workers earning $15 or under would be a larger share than ~17%.

Also he says the $15 was pulled from thin air, but treats the late '60s high point of the minimum wage like some kind of rational standard to aspire to. As if the highest it's ever been is the highest it should ever be, without regard to actual need.

David Brooks is one of the most stupid people on the planet.

Forget billionaires, Brooks would be high on my list for Mr. Choppy.

awww Mr. Choppy!

https://www.eventeny.com/users/pic/9953-business-product-e4mds5546abz1589751338-600.jpg

apparently that is "Mr. Chippy Choppy" -- kinda disappointed I couldn't find a good "Mr. Choppy" GIS in color

i love him

Vote yes on dehumanizing billionaires

For sure wise for elderly or immunocompromised to take the vaccine. Some debate about the second jab though. Quite a few negative reactions to that.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2021

that negative reaction is called an IMMUNE RESPONSE you cross-eyed melonheaded fuckface

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETtTSwtWoAABuco.jpg

i love this frogg

popular novelty children's 45 in your finer used record stores

b/w Solidarity Forever

The thing about Elon Musk is that there is no reason to ever pay attention to what he says

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/how-elizabeth-warrens-acolytes-infiltrated-bidenworld/

Larry Summers makes a great foil here

Eternally the guy who lost the very easy sinecure of Harvard President by saying women were naturally not as good at science

It’s a stretch to say “very easy sinecure” but also literally everyone hated him as far as I could tell

I’ll at least assume Larry Summers thought of it more as a plum make-work assignment than Drew Faust did afterwards, how hard is it really to raise money for Harvard tho

Well, Rudenstine was extremely good at at it and, as far as I can tell, Summers is the only one who has been bad at it

How’s he still a public figure???

The unaccountable longevity of Clinton guys I guess

(Probably because as mentioned before, everyone hates him)

full disclosure: I once met him during a party at the Kennedy School during the 2004 DNC and he spent the entire 4 minute conversation scanning the room looking for someone famous to talk to so, while it would be a stretch to say he should have paid attention to me, he was certainly extremely rude a d incapable of normal conversation

(By contrast, Rudenstine is a delightful dude who is engaged with anyone who talks to him, regardless of how important they are)

He's not even that rich for all the evil work he's done. The graffiti artist who drew a mural for Zuck's office is worth hundreds of millions more.

As hard as it may be to believe, I don't think getting rich is his main goal. Feeling important is.