We. Would. CRY.: US Politics, July 2022

Not to be confused with the limo liberal, of course.

Probably should be something more animal-like, so they can be hunted in campaign ads.

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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/07/joe-manchin-didnt-kill-biden-democrats-agenda-alone.html

Uh-oh, the Democrats have lost Chait

Donald Trump was able to unite his party behind an unpopular tax cut for the rich. Biden was unable to unite his party behind a popular reversal of that bill, or even a partial reversal. Political scientists have an explanation for both these things: The wealthy hold a disproportionate influence on both the elite in parties, pulling Democrats to the left of their voters on social issues, and Republicans to the right of their voters on economic issues.

Chait wrote this?! Damn.

Biden’s plan did include one measure that Democrats intended to seed permanent reform: an enhanced child tax credit. The bill funded the payments for just one year. They believed the payments would prove so popular that the public would demand they continue. Social scientists have unequivocally shown the payments reduced child poverty by impressive levels without the side effects on parental work effort that conservatives warned about. Yet Manchin opposed extending the payments anyway — reportedly muttering in private that his constituents were squandering the money on drugs

I think it’s important for normal people to understand that you’re really only ‘allowed’ to do drugs if you’re in your 50s and your parents are extremely wealthy & connected and can send you to a facility that costs 15k a month, where you will continue to do drugs.

The Hunter Biden Experience

https://prospect.org/economy/the-impossible-inevitable-survival-of-the-trump-tax-cuts/

Suddenly, the likes of Sinema, Gottheimer and Schrader and others were uninterested in raising taxes on corporations, capital gains, inheritances, pass-through businesses, wealthy households, or really anything or anyone else....Manchin finally became a full-fledged member of the pro-Trump tax cuts caucus last week, when he rejected any tax increases in reconciliation. The entire premise of Democratic policy for the last two years—use the rollbacks of the most unpopular (the only unpopular?) tax cut maybe in history to offset a new round of deeply needed public investment—was dead.

Republicans love to cosplay ICE agents the way 10 year olds like to pretend they're Avengers. https://t.co/UbarN9zzbd

— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 18, 2022

Suddenly, the likes of Sinema, Gottheimer and Schrader and others were uninterested in raising taxes on corporations, capital gains, inheritances, pass-through businesses, wealthy households, or really anything or anyone else....Manchin finally became a full-fledged member of the pro-Trump tax cuts caucus last week, when he rejected any tax increases in reconciliation. The entire premise of Democratic policy for the last two years—use the rollbacks of the most unpopular (the only unpopular?) tax cut maybe in history to offset a new round of deeply needed public investment—was dead.

― curmudgeon, Monday, July 18, 2022 12:29 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Look, the C-suite is hurting! After leaving the Delaware estate and pied-a-terre in Manhattan to decamp to Rockport for the pandemic, Junior got into another car wreck in his new Benz and the treatment facility is robbing us blind but they swear it works and he should be ready to run for Senate sometime before the decade is out.

Just when you thought MTG couldn't get any worse...

I'm really sick of this shit. Twitter should either enforce its rules and ban her or it should just get rid of the rules altogether and stop pretending. pic.twitter.com/17sUJMbOCF

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 18, 2022

twitter half took that post down (as in, they left it up but dont' display it until you click on it because they say it violated rules of hateful content, but 'people might want to see it anyway')

Probably should be something more animal-like, so they can be hunted in campaign ads.

― henry s, Friday, July 15, 2022 11:54 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Actually the DNC could do a really high-concept ad that’s a version of “A Sound of Thunder” where Bernie Bros go back in time to go DINO-hunting and return to a future of President MTG.

President MTG of the Penis Protection Party

Here's a little sideshow spectacle on my homefront, which is illustrative of various things: We have a state senate Republican primary where the incumbent is a retired U.S. Army doctor and heart surgeon who has been much better than most of his party on providing good information on COVID, and he is being challenged from the right by an aquarium entrepreneur and former pain patient who is a leading advocate for legalizing medical cannabis in Tennessee. Welcome to 2022.

"an aquarium entrepreneur"

"I am an American aquarium ... entrepreneur ... "

But can you boast a candidate from The Elven Way who looks like Haley Joel Osment cosplaying "Midsommar"? I think not. Though, frankly, he's no Goodspaceguy.

Conversions are possible...

Lunch with my male GOP co-worker:

GOP: Tea, I hate Beto. But I'm going to vote for him

Me (had to ask): Wait what?

GOP (tears): That tape, Tea.(Uvdale) No excuse. Abbott doesn't care. And Roe. (pause) And I actually believe that skinny motherfucker will fix that grid

Me: 🙆🏾‍♀️

— 🛹Alejandro Sosa’s Wife🛹 Red State Democrat (@SaintMystic) July 18, 2022

"that skinny motherfucker will fix the grid" = Underrated Prince Lyric

Put THAT on a bumper sticker

Beto: Cramp your calves, fix that grid

"that skinny motherfucker will fix the grid"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)

Underrated James McNew bootlegs I have owned

My make GOP coworker - “Betokanda forever”

Hopefully my state can get out there today (or went out last week, or mailed ballots) and show that we actually care about mid year elections in 2022

Mid term elections

WaPo: Secret Service cannot recover texts; no new details for Jan. 6 committee Not really dealt with in actual story, except for phones being replaced maybe, but otherwise, True Crime shows teach us that nothing is ever truly deleted---anyway, the story, with details I hadn't seen (and not paywalled):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/19/secret-service-texts/
Although it took me a while to get back to WaPo, after their handling of the 10-year-old rape victim-abortion refugee.

Clearly they just didn't want anyone to know how often they called out for pizza.

Or cocaine!

Either way, just some innocent goofery.

Cocaine-stuffed crust pizza!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l33b9BimCo

Not seeing an extensive post yet, but this one lists all the Congress perps:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/politics/congress-members-arrested-abortion-protest-supreme-court/index.html

17 in all, or listed so far

And speaking of double-digit perps:

The 16 Republicans who falsely signed certificates claiming to be Georgia’s valid presidential electors have been deemed criminal “targets” by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

Willis indicated this determination in a court filing on Tuesday fending off a legal effort by one of those targets, Burt Jones, to disqualify her from leading the grand jury investigation. Jones, who is running to become Georgia’s lieutenant governor, had contended that Willis’ actions were politically motivated, citing her political support for Jones’ opponent. But Willis said that Jones couldn’t show he was targeted over politics — and that, in fact, she had treated all 16 of the false Republican electors equally.

Like his signature wouldn't have meant nothin', if she hadn't favored his opponent. In Trumpworld, makes sense.

Da Probe

If a popular bill that united Democrats and fractured Republicans had just passed the House, I'd be inclined to put it on the floor of the Senate ASAP. But what do I know? I'm not a senior Democratic senator, just someone who can't shake some habits of thinking like a Republican. https://t.co/btAX5CfkJv

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 19, 2022

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Ugh , unless Durbin as the whip has been told that not all Senate Dems are on board. If that’s the case we should know who they are.

Of course Dem leadership will tell us the solution is to “Elect! More! Dems!”

“It’s not on the table for this week,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of a climate emergency declaration. “We are still considering it. I don’t have the upsides or the downsides of it.”

https://apnews.com/article/climate-biden-joe-manchin-and-environment-bed0159741405159639f800aec3b079b

Might be time to rework the schedule.

it’s entirely possible that leadership simply don’t remember what happened less than a month ago

fuckin do it Joe

Easy, broadly popular, uncontroversial ... I can see where it'd be tough for them to pull that off.

"Tough, that is!"

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Disgraceful, spineless lunatics who don't care whether we live or die.

this window is going to be gone for who knows how long.

so many missed opportunities.

since the financial crisis of 2008 we had extremely low inflation and essentially zero percent interest rates and did we get any truly transformative spending projects? did we fuck. that was the time for something on the scale of building the interstate highway system. it’s gone now.

August is coming, they're all running down the clock and making kayak bookings on their phones