US Politics, January 2022 — a pro-God, pro-family, pro-bitcoin state

this is good?!

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, January 7, 2022 2:19 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the world is terrible, etc. but can't imagine previous D presidents saying that.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, January 7, 2022 2:20 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah Biden is not good but that's quite out of context if you listen to the whole sound bite

It’s time for dem propaganda imo, they should do a biden and obama presidents in a car getting coffee every week or something, it would skew to olds and moderate knowlittle charisma lovers and it has uh, cars.

lol that Nicholas Kristof entered the race for Oregon gov without having even met the basic three year residency requirement. Dude apparently even voted in NY in 2020.

I don't think Democrats want Joe talking off the cuff any more than absolutely necessary.

Isn't that why yesterday's speech happened so early?

Unless he's chatting with Jay Leno about his sweet, sweet Corvette

The beauty of my propaganda is that I would not let any off the cuff stuff hit his socials. It would be fake as fuck like a buddy flick

the barack and joe and kamala and pete potlock tweet irl is propaganda i guess, sure

Fuck yeah, “America Is Already Great II: Electric Boogaloo”

The United States is the only major economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger now than before the pandemic.

— Secretary Marcia L. Fudge (@SecFudge) January 8, 2022

those kinds of empty pronouncements are like shouting into the Grand Canyon in hopes of hearing an echo. nobody anywhere pays any attention to them. except maybe milo.

They *are* kinda absurd though.

Like, yes, nothing has Fundamentally Changed. And yes, things are pretty good if you’re a property owner &/or invested in equities. But that isn’t going convince anyone with (and *especially* without) that kind of portfolio who still voted for Trump. And for people whose lives don’t reflect this Majorly Strongly economy, I feel it just seems like a cruel joke. Or more likely—background noise. Which, tbf Aimless, I presume is your primary point.

All that to say: what’s even the purpose of several staffers spending (no lie) probably hours of a working day crafting this message? Like I’m sure it will be a talking point on CNN or MSNBC or savaged on Fox. But who’re the folks watching? Focus-grouped abstractions based on data that really is a sliver of a snapshot of reality just annoy everyone who’s not a materially comfortable and consistent dem voter (<-which tbf describes me by p much every metric)

sorry y’all I took a delta 8 gummie pls ignore

Will, those are fair points, gummie or not

The Secretary of HUD tweeting out something like that is ludicrous and craven, and if anything shows how laughable the Dems are— the country is struggling, many people are starting to reevaluate their relationships to work and consumption, and yet since there is economic "growth," none of that matters. Growth of what? Who benefits? Are we okay with 1000s of people dying every day if some very wealthy people are becoming more wealthy, and the rest of us can still afford goods and services? Sick and rotten place.

will - how many mgs are we talking here

asking because i own the uncontested guiness book of world records on that, with somewhere between 60-100 mgs on some evening in 2021

I hope you're not suggesting we can't trust everything Secretary Fudge says.

asking because i own the uncontested guiness book of world records on that, with somewhere between 60-100 mgs on some evening in 2021

Double or nothing!

Us politics

yea that’s not a good thing man pic.twitter.com/AFRTBL78BB

— Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) January 8, 2022

Somehow nobody mentioned Lin-Manuel.

Watched 2 focus groups w/moderate voters last night, put on by a liberal group.

Moderator asked 1st group (five women) about Jan 6th. Long pause followed, before one of the women asked what he meant. Invoking "Jan. 6" didn't immediately mean anything, even days after anniversary

— Alex Roarty (@Alex_Roarty) January 11, 2022

2 focus groups w/moderate complacent, pig ignorant voters

“Democracy is under assault!!!” would be a more effective rallying cry if the Democrats governed as if democracy was under assault.

otm

Maybe this year will set the template going forward. Even once we're fully ensconced in the Christo-corporate authoritarian state, they will allow touching little memorials to democracy every year on Jan. 6. Sort of like Labor Day.

Christo-corporate authoritarian state

I think most Americans will be relieved to have somebody else do the voting for them

this is an actual question from Harvard's Center for American Political Studies survey. come on https://t.co/Krx5Vx9bZK pic.twitter.com/MxaE8HDMxC

— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) January 11, 2022

Q: Do you believe we should observie CHRISTMAS, where Santa and the elves celebrate the birth of Baby Jesus; or should observe cold, atheistic 'holidays' that promote paganism and a breakdown in family values? Y/N, pick one

Better question: Do you think white people who are suddenly freaked out about Critical Race Theory despite never having heard of it until a year ago are A.) racists, B.) political opportunists, C.) Confused and misled by Fox News, or D.) All of the above?

Harris's new comms director lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIg5_-1WUAkzpa-?format=jpg&name=large

12 year old tweet, but as relevant today as it was yesterday morning

Democrats regain Alcee Hastings' seat and their 222-seat majority -- and a progressive winner at that:

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a healthcare executive who won a crowded primary by a slim margin, was elected on Tuesday by a majority of voters in Palm Beach and Broward counties, taking a seat in Congress left empty by the death of U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings. By comfortably beating Republican Jason Mariner, Cherfilus-McCormick, 36, becomes the first Haitian-American to be elected to Congress from Florida and becomes the first Haitian-American Democrat to be in the U.S. House of Representatives. She received about 78% of the vote....

....Cherfilus-McCormick is expected to join a growing voice of progressive Democrats in the U.S. House. As a candidate, she campaigned on a “People’s Prosperity Plan,” a stimulus proposal that she hoped would give $1,000 monthly stimulus checks to adults making less than $75,000 a year. In an interview with the Herald, Cherfilus-McCormick said she supports proposals from other progressives in the House, like U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, to push for regular income checks. She has said she supports a Medicare-for-all type of healthcare policy, and was supportive of initiatives pushed by President Joe Biden to open up more opportunities to access capital for Black business owners.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article257204012.html

hey did you know campaign websites stay up longer than they probably should pic.twitter.com/YbUdXxi9B2

— David Sitrick (@davidsitrick) January 12, 2022

"Critical race theory" has become a stand-in for "things that make white people even vaguely uncomfortable."

^^ yep, whole depressing story on This American Life about it. Anything that gives a white person even the slightest whiff of discomfort is "critical race theory" and being banned from schools all over the place.

It's only cool to own liberals.

"Critical race theory" and also the classic "pornography"

Legislators in Iowa are really outdoing themselves — they’re arguing YA books about growing up on a reservation or books about police violence against black people are also ‘porn,’ since they now take ‘porn’ to mean anything that makes them slightly uncomfortable. pic.twitter.com/RM6GHrWpaT

— Madeline Marsanne (@MadelineOnMars) January 9, 2022

I get what you all are saying, but criticism/fear of "critical race theory" is quite simply anti-Black racism (plus other racisms); even acknowledging the paper-thin justification of "discomfort" feels overgenerous to me: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/calls-to-ban-books-by-black-authors-are-increasing-amid-critical-race-theory-debates/2021/09

A senior administration official argued to @davidalim and @adamcancryn that sending N95 or KN95 masks to Americans would make little difference because "half the country won't wear any mask” https://t.co/BK0cvHaCRg pic.twitter.com/ebcmYqyCvr

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) January 12, 2022

the paper-thin justification of "discomfort"

I wouldn't call it a justification, more like a pretext.

Also, they are clearly learning in some districts that simply screeching "CRT! CRT!" at board meetings is working, so why not just keep banning?

anyone ITT considering sucking it up and running for school board or other local elected position?

As penance for sins? Maybe.

NYC doesn't have school boards but I did run (unopposed, no one wants this job) for a very bottom level seat in the Dem party machinery and--surprise!--we spend all our time fighting the corruption and stagnation in the county party structure. Good times.

The far right believe in electoralism (along with violent suppression of dissent)!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/01/08/far-right-school-boards/

A little slice o' life on this very topic: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/us/minnesota-school-board-transgender-hate/index.html

anyone ITT considering sucking it up and running for school board or other local elected position?

I had in the past, but not after watching a close friend get elected to a local school board. Even in a very liberal district and setting aside the stress of dealing with the pandemic, her description of it has been "nightmarish" - multiple rounds of death threats leading to the entire board's houses requiring security oversight, months where she spends 50-60 hours per week on this unpaid, volunteer gig. Don't get me wrong, I am thankful daily that she is fighting the good fight and advocating for the right things, but I know I could not deal with what she's had to go through.

NYC doesn't have school boards but I did run (unopposed, no one wants this job) for a very bottom level seat in the Dem party machinery and--surprise!--we spend all our time fighting the corruption and stagnation in the county party structure. Good times.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:03 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thank you for your service (not a joke)

i'm starting to think about taking one for the team assuming we're a democracy by the time i'm a citizen.