US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

Believe it or not, Biden “gets it”

.@NBCNews confirms the following Biden picks for US ambassadors:
- Rahm Emanuel to Japan
- Eric Garcetti to India
- Nicholas Burns to China
- Tom Nides to Israel
Reporting with @carolelee @albamonica @kwelkernbc

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) May 27, 2021

As I said before, this really feels like "How far away can we possibly send this fucking guy?" to me.

loooool Rahm to Japan

Imagine being Obama’s chief of staff, getting elected mayor of Chicago, then tripping over your own dick hard enough that the fucking President gives you a booby prize embassy to prevent you from doing anything worse

The most hated Democrat who hasn't taken a photo with his arms around Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

John Corzine and Blago are still out there somewhere in the wild.

Lieberman too is a total GOP suckup f'k too.

i dunno, those are real embassies, and it's that the jobs went to two of the worst mayors in america.

Lori Lightfoot is trying desperately hard to prove she can fail worse than Rahm at being mayor.

garcetti happened to be chairing the LA metro board and listening to public comment when the news broke:

So the mayor just unmuted and I'm pretty sure he just said he was going to make an announcement after the next or maybe last caller.

The next caller then ended their comment with: "See you later Mayor Garcetti, we won't miss you"

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 27, 2021

:D

they checked and no, there wasn't a bigger piece of paper available

President Biden just pulled out a list of Republicans who he says are touting the American Rescue Plan and who are trying to take credit for its impact but who refused to vote for the plan that was passed with only Democratic support. Wow. pic.twitter.com/DO38UDUX02

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 27, 2021

Baller.

The video's even better 'cause he laughs as he says it. Biden understands the power of ridiculing your opponents.

"Some people have no shame." pic.twitter.com/pPAmQXjppC

— The Recount (@therecount) May 27, 2021

Big Scorpio energy, LOL

Biden understands the power of ridiculing your opponents.

lol "power"

Not a single human being would be swayed by this shit. Republicans are... playing politics?!

Democrats are saying that they will take up whatever key stuff (climate, eldercare) is left out of the bipartisan infrastructure deal in a follow-up reconciliation Dem-only package. Experts/aides split dramatically on how likely that ishttps://t.co/QqOxWcssTc

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) May 26, 2021

Biden understands the power of feeding his most gullible followers complete bullshit.

It's good practice for elected reps to call out and/or put down shitty policies, beliefs and behaviours by their political opponents imo (did not watch this video)

Biden should try calling out Manchin and Sinema for blocking the minimum wage increase and voting rights bills.

yeah I wonder why that won't happen

sic posted a good tweet from a Wisconsin/Illinois news source about why that won't happen a couple of days ago IIRC

yelling at Joe Manchin in public is exactly what he needs to do to win him over imo

The pic in that last tweet really affirms Buttigieg's rat-fink shit-eater look. He makes me ashamed to be gay.

Not even Newt Gingrich will shame me for being gay.

let me understand and make sure i've got this straight. milo have you come here to this board today to tell us that there are democrats who aren't committed to a progressive agenda - yet have the power to swing legislation?! and that president biden is refusing to publicly embarrass and humiliate them!!!!?? color me completely fucking surprised at this information, and the messenger bringing it. it DEFINITELY doesn't feel like groundhog day in here and we all DEFINITELY need to be remorselessly reminded that biden isn't going to deliver all the things we want. if not for the milo daily delivery we'd just all be skipping blithely down the road singing kumbaya, biden is great, he brings us the chocolate cake! 100% a+ service thanking you

When someone deepthroats Biden’s political genius in, uh, ridiculing opponents in a video no one outside of Blue Twitter has watched, a little balance feels good.

yelling at Joe Manchin in public is exactly what he needs to do to win him over imo

The current strategy is having so much success, amirite? Remember when Manchin wrote a competing voting rights bill because the Democrats’ bill is DOA?

Doing the Morbs’ work

It's May. Reagan's major legislation, just as an example, didn't get signed into law until the summer. If we're in the same place in August without any movement, then y'all can rend your garments. I'll join you.

I mean, you can't even defenestrate Joe Manchin. The GOP governor will appoint a GOP replacement.

a little balance feels good.

in a thread devoted to Joe Biden's excellence, sure

You should tell unperson to take Biden's genius to that thread then.

holy shit he can barely get a whole sentence out at this point huh

I see nothing wrong with praising a guy you voted for doing an uncharacterically snide move. I guess you do.

holy shit he can barely get a whole sentence out at this point huh

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will),

dude, milo's doing fine here!

i dunno, those are real embassies, and it's that the jobs went to two of the worst mayors in america.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, May 27, 2021 1:18 PM (two hours ago)

isn't "ambassador" mainly a "stand there and don't commit a grievous faux pas, promote our unyielding friendship" sort of job, I'd love to send all bad mayors to other countries where they can't cause problems

make Jenny Durkan ambassador to Belarus

i think that's the situation in carribbean islands and second tier european countries, but ambassador to india or japan is a real job, the kind you give to a guy who was on your VP selection committee and in the running for transportation secretary in the mistaken belief they don't suck. but yeah, rather india than LA from my POV.

I mean if Eric Garcetti gets abducted and executed by the Modi regime so much the better right?

Having to interact at all with Modi is some kind of punishment.

Embarrassing that we even still have an Indian embassy frankly

it's very nice!

For no particular reason whatsoever here are some photos of Roosevelt House, the recently renovated Edward Durell Stone-designed residence of the U.S. ambassador to India pic.twitter.com/5jrLLVP2Hq

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 23, 2021

Are we letting Indian Muslims claim asylum in it

make Jenny Durkan ambassador to Belarus Palestine imo, she loves war crimes

this weekend is the anniversary of my first tear-gassing!

I think Japan ambassador is a bit more important these days, with all the N Korea shenanigans and the stuff in the South China Sea going on.. not just a Siberian appointment to keep him out of the public eye

Oh great Rahm is going to start a war with China by accident now

It's May. Reagan's major legislation, just as an example, didn't get signed into law until the summer.

This is a bad example since Democrats held the House, no?

Yet with the help of Boll Weevils our beloved Ronnie passed his tax bill.

They need to get decorated WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I & II vets doing ads shaming the GOP about 1/6 and calling out their BS.

Nbd just a sitting member of Congress calling for armed slaughter of American citizens…

Florida Man @mattgaetz, talking about Silicon Valley canceling conservatives says "We have a 2nd amendment in this country and I THINK WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO USE IT!" pic.twitter.com/FFEWnyEF0o

— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) May 27, 2021