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

They're usually much shorter than podcasts.

I know it's a given that McConnell looks terrible, but he's looked *really* terrible these past few months.

it's been really hard out there for people like me who have been openly enjoying prominent conservative deaths like rush limbaugh. because once you give in to that, it's like well here comes another, and here comes another. the more you know, both in quantity of conservative voices you know as well as the depths of their craven commitment to ideology over truth, the more you end up in fights with cryptoteens in a musician's mentions

i think the answer is to reverse course. become as brittle as possible. resilience is flexibility, and flexibility is change. change is bad, especially climate change. there is no ideology, there is only truth. and if you even start talking when i'm around, then that changes my truth: NO THANKS

I know it's a given that McConnell looks terrible, but he's looked *really* terrible these past few months.

Although what will happen because of the banter heuristic is that newsom will be recalled then Feinstein will die and be replaced by a gop appointee until 2024.

even if newsom is recalled, that doesn't mean that a republican would win the election. Arnold Schwarzenegger won mainly because he was a famous actor who was in the movie, Total Recall, not so much that he was a Republican.

also no one was terribly excited by Cruz Bustamante

every time I see his name that Martini & Rossi commercial that’s been lodged n my brain for 35 years starts blaring

"I know it's a given that McConnell looks terrible, but he's looked *really* terrible these past few months."

About that...

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/04/kentucky-mitch-mcconnell-senator-replace/

I would like to see him lose the zombie hand and have an a hook attachment for a few months before he dies.

I was thinking he could be the extra head on some medical experiment like that character in Total Recall or they could turn him into MODOK.

not late night and an insane show, but the one that did a good job with guests is the Drew Barrymore show. Almost all of the in studio guests are green screened onto the set from another studio, I guess, and its done so well you can't really tell that they aren't sitting right there. I'm surprised the late night shows, which surely have bigger budgets, haven't tried that.

even if newsom is recalled, that doesn't mean that a republican would win the election. Arnold Schwarzenegger won mainly because he was a famous actor who was in the movie, Total Recall, not so much that he was a Republican.

i just want to acknowledge karl malone’s masterful friedman-pasta upthread

joe doing just fine in this presser from what I've heard

what is your favorite basic friedman pasta sauce

the press corps as usual is awful: who's in, who's out, Trump said this, what do YOU say. I never thought I'd sympathize with a president over the media over an immigration question.

It was good to see him openly laugh at one idiot reporter's question about whether a vastly overcrowded immigration center was "acceptable" to him.

Also, a real flash of anger in his voice when he talked about unions vs. plutocrats.

That one question about why he hasn't announced his re-election committee yet... as if it's now normal to begin running for reelection the same month you're sworn into office.

yeah even some press that I thought were ok are up there asking these meandering lame questions

We also just had a bunch of reporters acting outraged about Biden not holding a press conference. Fine. Just be equally annoyed by your fellow journalists wasting everyone’s time with this nonsense https://t.co/jDePb4yXqA

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) March 25, 2021

When I did town halls with Democratic candidates and I and other regular voters asked questions like "what's your plan for the opioid problem?" there was a live chat of campaign reporters rolling their eyes and scoffing at how it wasn't making news.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 25, 2021

Pretty wild that there was not one COVID-19 question at the president's first press conference, a year into the pandemic and after over 530,000 deaths.

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) March 25, 2021

What if journalism…is bad

the press sucks, they revealed this every day during the trump admin, they ask the goddamn worst questions

The White House press corps sucks for sure, almost 100%. There are some good working journalists out there beyond the WH, who seek out news that is both important and unreported on or under-reported. They are the ones who break the stories, about which the WH press corps self-importantly stand up and ask the president to comment on, which any idiot can do. The idea that the WH press corps represent the pinnacle of the journalistic profession is disproved at every fucking press conference the president gives.

they need a less impressive/imposing sounding noun than "corps"

"gaggle"

"bouquet"

the press corps
the st louis cardinals

or wait, maybe more like a band name?

the typewriters on loan

and everyone always knows when they're working, because the typewriters are so loud

they need a less impressive/imposing sounding noun than "corps"

― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, March 25, 2021 2:53 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

press crops

press craps

press carps

I can't believe Biden did this pic.twitter.com/7Em0mhr4JX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 25, 2021

lol an image for which the phrase "talking heads" was invented. some things never change.

Obama used a teleprompter, Biden uses written notes, what obvious puppets they are. You know a president is authentic only if he randomly capitalizes words in incoherent tweets full of exclamation points.

Trump was the Charlie Parker of podium-speak, freely following his muse wherever it led him...

we love talking out of our asses, don't we folks?

I haven't talked to an ass since March 2020.

Not even on Zoom?

I like my asses live.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Live_Chili_Cookoff_2008.jpg

https://cdn.britannica.com/40/141040-050-B1D8DDED/Asian-ass.jpg

me and a friend last March

aw, look at those ides

The ides have it!

Jesus, this shit in Georgia

it’s bad

Full on fascism. The 'illegal to give food/drink to someone queuing to vote' bit. Did they even bother to try and explain that one?