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

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

what was the comment?

*foghorn leghorn voice* i say, well i say, these comparisons you’re makin are embarras- embarras- uncomforta- they’re IMPRECISE, that’s what they are

"we must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity."

that is what was unacceptable and “fomenting” prejudice

xxxp -

We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity.

We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.

I asked @SecBlinken where people are supposed to go for justice. pic.twitter.com/tUtxW5cIow

— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) June 7, 2021

how dare she compare us with those savages

It’s shameful for colleagues who call me when they need my support to now put out a statement asking for “clarification” and not just call.

The islamophobic tropes in this statement are offensive. The constant harassment & silencing from the signers of this letter is unbearable. https://t.co/37dy2UduW0

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 10, 2021

feel like she and AOC have both had enough of these bozos and it’s showing

Openly daring anyone younger than or to the left of Steny Hoyer to stay home in November 2022 is a good strategy IMO.

If Pelosi just had to wrangle a minority of 140 centrists into offering up token opposition it would be a less stressful way to ride out her golden years.

I hope she d*es

the one way in which biden is better than bernie: not even bernie could prompt this level of cope.

When a Democrat becomes a Republican. pic.twitter.com/ldSaxmaeep

— Rory Carroll (@rorycarroll72) June 10, 2021

new king crimson lineup looking solid pic.twitter.com/yXJAL0IYYu

— thee kendal mintcake (@MintcakeTime) June 11, 2021

In The Wake Of Joe Biden

Is Trudeau now sporting a Van Dyke beard?

Ilhan Omar, America's Greatest Centrist (in the idiotic "if both sides are mad at you, you must be doing something right" sense):

Hamas issued press release denouncing US Rep. Illhan Omar (@Ilhan) for equating the 'Palestinian resistance' to the 'crimes' of Israel & US invasion in Afghanistan. They appreciate her stance on justice, especially for Palestinians. But asks her to describe events 'accurately.' pic.twitter.com/gWO34xGQqx

— Joe Truzman (@Jtruzmah) June 11, 2021

Thread!

1. On May 31, Texas Republicans were fully prepared to pass a sweeping voter suppression bill

But the bill failed because House Democrats walked out, denying the GOP a quorum

The GOP will take the bill up again in a special session

But something EXTRAORDINARY is happening

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 11, 2021

In other Texas news, Greg Abbott is doubling down on the Trumpyness and wants Texas to take up the construction of its part of the border wall in addition to building state-run migrant detention centers.

that is some expert trolling from Hamas there

aiui, Texas doesn't own the border strip, so he would need permission from Congress to build on it.

Most of his voters don't know that.

He's really flailing at anything that'll win him back the brownie points he lost because of the ERCOT snafu during the February freeze.

Whomp Whomp

Still, no flyover, which Lindell attempted to have happen at the end of the anthem. Here is the clip from Lindell looking around, trying to find the jets in the air. pic.twitter.com/t6ruZhyJK2

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 12, 2021