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

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

I'm Dan Crenshaw and graphic design is my passion pic.twitter.com/RhzpFkjIrQ

— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 14, 2021

about time the one-eyed monster gets his adult film debut

As someone who freaked out today when I played a 40-year-old Culture Club video with some poorly chosen imagery for a group of grade 6 students (Donald Trump: Classic or Dud? immediately tried to fix the situation--I find it amusing that this woman can waltz back a month later with an "Oh, gee, sorry about that." Better late than never, I guess.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/06/14/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-shes-removing-holocaust-comparisons-from-her-past-rebukes-of-covid-measures/?sh=7bd161d6bf15

A little garbled, as usual: "--and immediately tried to fix the situation--"

I have found the cure for Impostor Syndrome.

All you need to do is watch this 87-second video. pic.twitter.com/8Dpc5h5bvA

— Anjan (@HeyAnjan) June 15, 2021

There are no words.

He seems like a bright young man who will go far.

Hopefully he gets his legal stuff worked out before he gets elected, wouldn't want that to be a distraction from his agenda.

cautiously optimistic that this recurring debate might go better this time around because republicans are totally focused on trivia/consipiracies https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/opinion/inflation-economy-infrastructure.html.

obviously the composition of congress (esp. after 2022) is a problem! but moving the terms of the debate while they're not paying attention is not nothing.

pompeo starting an overtly fascist superpac that seems to be themed around exonerating and exalting eddie gallagher, the war crimes guy trump pardoned. doesn't seem good!

(CNN)All K-12 public schools in Florida will hold a moment of silence at the start of the day starting next school year, according to a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Ron DeSantis...

Kids are free to listen to "South of Heaven" as long as it doesn't disturb fellow students

Among the key revelations:

Trump’s White House assistant sent Rosen an email on Dec. 14 that included materials purporting to document extensive election fraud in Michigan. The email included “talking points” that said there must be a “review of votes throughout Michigan.”

Just after this happened, a senior Justice Department official forwarded a similar email with these materials to U.S. attorneys in Michigan, which seems like it might have been an effort to get an investigation going.

Less than an hour after those emails were sent, Trump announced on Twitter that Barr would be stepping down, and that Rosen would be replacing him. Importantly, Trump had already sent Rosen his marching orders in terms of helping subvert the election.

On Dec. 29, Trump’s White House assistant sent a draft brief to Rosen and other top department officials that Trump wanted the department to file with the Supreme Court. It called on the court to declare that electors for Joe Biden in six states that Trump lost must not be counted. The email explicitly says Trump personally asked for the brief to be sent for those officials’ review, a direct presidential order.

According to the New York Times, that brief echoed the baseless claims made in the Texas lawsuit that also sought to invalidate Biden’s electors, which the Supreme Court had already dismissed. This shows Trump was fully devoted to subverting the election outcome now matter how fraudulent his legal claims were revealed to be.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/15/trump-recruit-justice-department/

i'm the kind of guy who gets a little stuck about 2/3 of the way through Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games. but is the bolded part above implying that Trump purposefully gave Rosen clear direction to subvert the election just an hour before Barr got canned, so that he could plausibly say "I have never directed the U.S. Attorney General to subvert any election, that is a lie" and get by on a technicality?

President Putin: The talks were very constructive. Personally, I was convinced that President Biden was an experienced person. We spoke for more than two hours. It doesn't happen with all leaders that you have such a detailed conversation.

lol at the subtle trump dig there at the end

i caught a bit of it on the WashPost website, with the captions.

the first things were:

five golf sorbets.
we have 1000 nautical miles

He also apparently wished Biden "good health."

Which I take to mean "maybe have someone else open that gift of caviar from Vladimir."

I would assume he's calling Biden old

this is the only bipartisanship worth anyone's time. AOC slumming it with the right wing of the democratic party.

High-speed rail connects people to opportunities, creates union jobs, & helps the planet.

Our infrastructure ask is simple: For every $1 the US puts into car infrastructure, let’s put $1 into rail.

Go to https://t.co/OcUUAqVEft & join me, @sethmoulton,& @Teamsters to get going. pic.twitter.com/YR8pkdT7hF

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 16, 2021

OK, so now I guess I'm a Putin stan now

Putin, through his interpreter, goes dark: "There is no happiness in life, there is only a mirage on the horizon, so cherish that."

— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) June 16, 2021

Putin otm after his one listen to Joy Divison's Closer.

More Werner Herzog than Ian Curtis

https://i.imgur.com/0WlWyrI.jpg

"Ian Curtis stole miserabilism from Dostoevsky. We're stealing it back!"

President Putin: The talks were very constructive. Personally, I was convinced that President Biden was an experienced person. We spoke for more than two hours. It doesn't happen with all leaders that you have such a detailed conversation.

Putin still giving big Einar Orn vibes in his statements

running the simulation in my head of what would happen if a sitting american president said "there is no happiness in life"

I know that Seth Moulton isn't in the DSA but in what universe is he right-wing?

right wing of the house dems?

Yup

He’s part of the “New Democrats” which afaict is the new name for the blue dog caucus.

thought it was the Neu! Democrats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition

These are not the same entities.

The New Democrat Coalition was founded in 1997 by Representatives Cal Dooley (CA), Jim Moran (VA), and Tim Roemer (IN) as a congressional affiliate of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.[12]

As of 2020, the caucus's issue priorities include addressing climate change, making college more affordable, bipartisanship on deficits and debt, lowering healthcare costs, passing comprehensive immigration reform, modernizing the nation's infrastructure, ensuring access to affordable housing, promoting innovation, and enacting tax reform for the middle class.[13]

In the 116th Congress, the New Democrat Coalition hosted eight task forces: Climate Change, Future of Work, Health Care, Housing, Infrastructure, National Security, Technology, and Trade.[14]

The Blue Dog Coalition "advocates for fiscal responsibility, a strong national defense and bipartisan consensus rather than conflict with Republicans". It acts as a check on legislation that its members perceive to be too far to the right or to the left on the political spectrum.[12]

The Blue Dog Coalition is often involved in searching for a compromise between liberal and conservative positions. Though its members have evolved on social issues over time,[30] the group has never taken a position on social issues as a caucus.[40] There is no mention of social issues in the official Blue Dog materials.[41]

It took about 5 minutes of googling to figure out the difference between the two, btw

At any rate, Ocasio-Cortez working out a deal with someone who voted the same way she did on 92% of the votes in the previous Congress and 98% of the votes in the current Congress isn't a stretch or even remarkable; it's relatively easy to work with someone who has the same goals as you.