Lady G Shook the Covid Tree - August 2021 US Politics Thread

from the same rally on saturday where a few people booed trump for advising people to get vaccinated, mo brooks also ran into trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9ZxQsggbM

“There are some people who are despondent about the voter fraud and election theft in 2020,” Brooks said. “Folks, put that behind you. Put that behind you.”

“Yes. Look forward. Look forward. Look forward,” Brooks said as the crowd declined to yield and boos continued to ring out. “Beat them in 2022. Beat them in 2024.”

Ultimately, Brooks was chastened, and he walked it back.

“All right, well, look back at it, but go forward and take advantage of it,” he said. But the crowd was still unhappy.

a little voice inside my head said /
well, look back at it but go forward and take advantage of it

but the crowd was still unhappy

by the end of the rally, mo brooks and trump led the cheering crowd backward in time, back to the stolen election, then back before coronavirus destroyed his presidency, then back to the other election he lost in 2016, then back to the golden years of birtherism, then straight back to antebellum south, back to where they were last happy

a new favorite for the GOP 2024 ticket has emerged

https://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/files/2010/02/6a00d8341c86cc53ef011571496b54970b-800wi.jpg

lol sorry hueg

oh shit, they're still going backward in time! now it's back before the mayflower, and they're eating raw onions while dying of the plague! go go go go!

oh shit, now it makes sense. they were wanting to go back to the crusades. well, fuck

I would like very much for republicans to seethe endlessly about the 2020 election and forget that there are more of them approaching. That would be a really spectacular turn of events. They're clearly just gagging to die horrible, preventable deaths so any stupid thing is possible.

lulz

https://www.salon.com/2021/08/23/arizona-audit-report-delayed-by-cyber-ninjas-covid-outbreak/

We Got Nothin' (except Covid-19)

coronavirus: welcome to the resistance

The #SpaceForce received the 2021 Space Achievement Award from the @SpaceFoundation at the 36th #SpaceSymposium. #TeamSpace #36Spacehttps://t.co/smcNr8dGDm pic.twitter.com/fISwftw2Fn

— United States Space Force (@SpaceForceDoD) August 24, 2021

Space

how high can you go

must click through the link for maximum spaceage:

Space Foundation News
Space Foundation Honors US Space Force With 2021 Space Achievement Award
Written by: Space Foundation Editorial Team

In Its Second Year, the US Space Force Has Successfully Established the World’s First Independent Space Force

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — June 23, 2021 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983 for the global space ecosystem, today announced the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as the recipient of the 2021 Space Achievement Award.

Did Space Force celebrate their space victory with a round of space shakes, I wonder

everybody get up, it's time to slam now

c’mon, the space force shouldn’t be eligible for the space award, that’s hardly fair.

Take it up with the space judge

Forget it, Jake. It's Space.

increasingly isolated! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/24/susan-wild-josh-gottheimer-house-democrats-infrastructure/

imagine how increasingly isolated the squad will be if they ever try this stuff

They should try it in space and maybe get a space award out of it.

There's a space guy in the Senate right? Maybe he can talk about his isolation.

no idea what's going on at this point

Pelosi wouldn’t even give moderates a fig leaf; they got “a clarification.”

Congrats to all involved! Josh Gottheimer really won this round! https://t.co/yVyg6fzniX

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) August 24, 2021

If this is true, then there will be no reconciliation bill and Biden's presidency is effectively finished https://t.co/fuDOtVy0d5

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) August 24, 2021

(see thread on that second one)

I think Stancil is misreading what is going on

hstancil, so much to answer for

Lol

The budget passed.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/democrats-near-deal-to-break-budget-impasse-506749

While the Gottheimer group did not get their initial demand, they have a public agreement with leadership that says the House will consider the $550 billion infrastructure deal by a specific date — Sept. 27 — effectively guaranteeing it will become law by next month if House Democrats stay united to pass the bill.

In addition, Gottheimer’s group negotiated what they say are meaningful guarantees from leadership about the potential size and scope of the $3.5 trillion social spending plan. Moderates in both chambers, including influential Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), have signaled they are not supportive of such a large price tag.

Progressives remained mostly quiet as their leadership negotiated the deal. But several prominent liberals did not hide their irritation after the deal was announced.

“You know the whole thing was a fiasco, to be honest," said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), chief vote counter for the Congressional Progressive Caucus. "I really don't know why they try to get into something without having an actual goal that they wanted to accomplish. It seems like amateur hour.”

"effectively guaranteeing it will become law" i.e. giving up some (all?) leverage for the big reconciliation bill?

It may just be theatre for the sake of those stupid moderates.

BREAKING: House votes 220-212 to pass the rule to

(1) begin writing Biden's $3.5 trillion safety net package

(2) guarantee a vote on the Senate-approved $550 billion infrastructure bill by Sept. 27

(3) vote on the John Lewis voting rights billhttps://t.co/JFrUwq4zWX

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 24, 2021

xp right, fingers crossed. i assume it all comes down to manchin and sinema anyway.

And they're not gonna write the bill from scratch -- they'll reconcile it with the Senate bill. She handed the moderates, it looks like, an insistence on a deadline everyone was already talking about. It's a non-binding resolution.

i'm not celebrating until manchin gets his space freeways

*cues 'Freeway of Love'*

i'm not celebrating until manchin gets his space freeways award

tbf to manchin, they haven't finished highways they broke ground on 50 years ago https://www.eenews.net/articles/infrastructure-bill-winners-highways-conceived-decades-ago/

Blundering conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman already face felony charges in multiple states. Now: a $5 million FCC fine! https://t.co/GtWZ0BZFUp

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 24, 2021

Inject it directly into my veeeeiiiiins

Did Space Force celebrate their space victory with a round of space shakes, I wonder

No, they went to the Space Bar.

Space Food Sticks and Tang, iirc.

Cool to see the 1/3rd Trump appointed Supreme Court force Biden to resurrectTrump era racist immigration policies. Seems good.

what if they won the space award and they just didn't have any room for it because they used up all their space

Let's start a nuclear war
Start a nuclear war
At the space bar, space bar, space bar

last year's winner was the guy who normalized a single space instead of two spaces between paragraphs. lifetime achievement award. I was robbed.

ALERT: US House Select Jan 6 Committee sends sweeping requests for records to federal agencies... including to US Justice Dept

Seeking: Agency communication before Jan 20 w/ M Meadows, S Powell, R Giuliani, J Ellis

Documents about possibility of invoking "Insurrection Act" pic.twitter.com/uutcxDTYs3

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 25, 2021

This will be going on forever.

if they get solid documentation, I'm good with this