US Politics June 2021 - "Where we're going, we don't NEED bipartisanship"

we have been dealing with my mother in law's situation for ages now, and it's so frustrating. yes, her (deceased) husband had a business that failed (largely due to bad partners); yes, they were immigrants who didn't really understand everything financial; yes, in theory they should have 'saved'; but, they didn't, he died, and she was left with nothing. She nannied for a few years (the family kept her on way past the point where she was useful which was nice of them) until the pandemic hit; shes been ok for the past year due to the extra unemployment, but that ends in SEptember. She has spinal compression fractures and frankly can't work and is in her 70s. Her social security, which is from her husband's income, is like $1000/mo. Her rent is twice that, let alone food costs. You'd think it would be easy to get her into some kind of affordable housing, but it is impossible in california. No other benefits are coming her way. It's a massive financial drag on us (because her other two kids are pieces of shit who are not contributing a dime).

Keeping most of the populace in a state of numbed wage slavery is the whole purpose of this supposed "democracy," or so it seems.

quite honestly it's a bit ridiculous that we put so much onus on individuals to be financially 'responsible' as it's not the easiest skill to learn, and it involves forecasting things that nobody can possibly forecast in the United States due to how much shit is shouldered 100% by the individual.

Not everybody is skilled at mathematics, and of course we as a nation are poorly educated. and we tell the average individual they should have 6-9 months of monthly expenses socked away, which requires them to actually know to the penny their monthly expenses (not just the recurring, but the projected monthly expenses), and actually earn enough to fuckin' DO that. until a few years ago, I made more than enough to do that, but due to my own folks struggles and me having to help, I break even now quite often rather than add some to the savings - fortunately I was at about 6 months of savings already).

but it's like, who can forecast an unexpected $10,000 hospital bill, a totaled car that necessitates a new monthly payment you weren't expecting, a period on short term/long-term disability which results in reduced income, a cancer diagnosis that makes you have to stop working entirely and rely on disability, etc. like nobody can possibly build that into their calculations and yet all of these things will make even the most fiscally responsible person of moderate income sink like a stone.

I think this is one reason why my view towards my folks has changed since I moved in with them - it was a bitter point in my family that my parents were irresponsible and have been 'borrowing' from my brother and I for 20 years, but I've softened on this point since I've seen up close that while that was true to an extent, it was a bit unfair to put it all on them. the Great Recession fucked them just like anybody else. if they had a house that they could sell, my dad would have a part-time nurse right now, probably.

Meanwhile ... someone tell Insane Clown Posse we figured out how magnets work.

https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/cleveland-doctor-tells-ohio-lawmakers-covid-19-vaccine-can-leave-people-magnetized-interfaced-with-5g-towers/

“I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized. They can put a key on their forehead. It sticks. They can put spoons and forks all over them and they can stick."

Uh no, actually I haven't, but I'm sure there are youtube videos, if only I were willing to just "do my own research."

Neanderthal OTM.

Were people this fucking stupid back in the day or was I just not paying attention?

Pres. Biden & Senate Dems should take a step back and ask themselves if playing patty-cake w GOP Senators is really worth the dismantling of people’s voting rights, setting the planet on fire, allowing massive corporations and the wealthy to not pay their fair share of taxes, etc

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2021

Were people this fucking stupid back in the day or was I just not paying attention?

Some people were, for sure, but they were isolated and easily ignored. Now they gather in FB groups and forums and empower each other.

And are invited to testify to state legislators!

xp i mean they could ask themselves i guess? but the answer would always be 'yes'

Remember when the urban myths were that Mountain Dew made you unable to cum and KFC were growing headless chickens?

Oh wait is Mountain Dew the reason why

semen doesn't stain the mountaintops

lol

Funny how conspiracy theories always come back to that.

Tenpenny wrongly says men have been advised not to have unprotected sex for at least six weeks after receiving Pfizer’s mRNA-based vaccine. She said that in her opinion, that is because the so-called “spike protein” from the virus could bind to the surface of the sperm and could change the sperm’s DNA, slow it or kill it, causing infertility or birth defects.

Free birth control, cool.

semen doesn't stain the mountaintops

― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.),

try the mountainbottoms

ayooo

Were people this fucking stupid back in the day or was I just not paying attention?

The latter. But back in the day it was blessedly easier to pay them no attention, since it was harder back then to aggressively push their stupidity at you non-stop.

McConnell says ‘era of bipartisanship is over’ as talks in Congress grind to a halt

Say it ain't so! Mitch has worked so hard to forge ties across the aisle, but the dirty socialists are staging a coup

this seems fine

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/politics/david-vigilante-cnn-email-secret-court-battle/index.html

TIL that there is a lawyer named David Vigilante

xp As a lawyer, I can't even imagine dealing with that - just ridiculous.

LIAM NEESON IS... DAVID VIGILANTE

Louie "Moonbeam" Gohmert (TX-GOP):

“We know there’s been significant solar flare activity, and so … is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun?” Gohmert asked. “Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate.”

Eberlien said she would have to “follow up with you on that one, Mr Gohmert.”

“Well, if you figure out a way that you in the Forest Service can make that change, I’d like to know,” Gohmert added.

What

the fuck?

Jesus Christ. That scanned even more batshit for the brief seconds before I remembered that BLM also stands for the Bureau of Land Management.

shoulda shot the Bundys

He's making some cutesy point that nature is 100% responsible for shifting climate (like the ice age) therefore the only way to rectify a warming planet is to shift orbits... I'd almost rather that he was earnestly talking about literally changing the moon's orbit, that would at least show some kind of willingness to address the problem.

yes, the explosive growth in the orbit of the moon since the Industrial Revolution is to blame

louie gohmert
john kennedy (senator, Louisiana)
ron johnson

that's my top 3

there's something weird going on, right now. in the biden administration, i mean.

BREAKING: Police did not clear Lafayette Park area so former Pres. Trump could hold "Bible" photo op, according to a new watchdog report. https://t.co/JGdF0MhzW5

— ABC News (@ABC) June 9, 2021

i think it's a tug-of-war between institutional protectionism and prosecuting the trump administration, and lo and behold, institutional protectionism is winning

"mistakes were made"

Yes, Fred didn't pull out

Greenblatt told ABC News that even though his office did not speak to Barr, the White House, or Secret Service for this review...

Of course they didn't.

it's also the IG for the US Park Service saying they weren't at blame, while also implying that DOJ staff/police played the dominant role

wait Trump is being protected by the Deep State? I better look into this

the rehab is starting early!!

think it's a tug-of-war between institutional protectionism and prosecuting the trump administration, and lo and behold, institutional protectionism is winning

think you’ll find we did need bipartisanship after all

So yeah nice to have t heading in the same direction that tear gas was being deployed fully as coincidence. & press just happen to be there as an upside down bible fell into his hands.
Amazing thing coincidence really

"it was a goof"

Justice Department says it can ‘vigorously’ defend religious schools’ exemption from anti-LGBTQ discrimination laws
https://t.co/dsVNfLuIHj

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 9, 2021

However, in a possible sign of the pressure on the administration, the Justice Department amended the document Wednesday, taking out the word “vigorously” to describe its defense of the religious exemption and retaining multiple uses of the word “adequate.” It removed wording that said the Education Department and the Christian schools “share the same ‘ultimate objective’ … namely, to uphold the Religious Exemption as it is currently applied.”

In a Wednesday piece entitled “No, the Biden Administration Isn’t Betraying Its Support for LGBTQ Rights,” Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern said the Justice Department was “trying to prevent a Christian organization from … mounting extreme arguments.” Stern said the religious exemption to Title IX isn’t “blatantly, invidiously unconstitutional” and thus the administration has no choice but to defend it.

A bushel of my nose hair fell out when I saw yesterday morning's tweet, but reading Mark Joseph Stern, whom I usually trust on LGBTQ and SCOTUS matters, reassured me.

Stern:

On March 8, Biden issued an executive order directing the Department of Education to take any “additional enforcement actions” necessary to implement Title IX’s protections for LGBTQ students. The administration is racing to enshrine Bostock in federal regulations that apply to secular schools. But there is nothing the president, on his own, can do about Title IX’s exemption. Congress created it, and Congress can abolish it; in the meantime, the Justice Department must defend it—not as a policy matter, but as a duly enacted federal law. There may be instances in which the DOJ has betrayed Biden’s principles in a misguided effort to preserve its own institutional prerogatives. This is not one of them.

House Democratic leadership puts out a statement attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar, saying her remark "foments prejudice and undermines progress toward a future of peace and security for all." pic.twitter.com/PusWVzVNfL

— aída chávez (@aidachavez) June 10, 2021

Quality leadership here.

a hit dog is gonna holler

complete idiots

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