“I can hear those champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow — like it’s Christmas every fucking day": US Politics, February 2024

the unstated thing is often that agriprocessing, farming, physical labor jobs generally rely on a stream of inexpensive younger laborers that’s been filled by immigrants

the Biden Administration has proposed minimum staffing levels at residential care facilities, and inexpensive younger labor can help with that as well

New border legislation the White House says it "strongly supports" would grant the Homeland Security Secretary the power to summarily deport undocumented immigrants at his "sole and unreviewable discretion" during border emergencies pic.twitter.com/lyLg7KPsyh

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) February 5, 2024

sounds legit

fuck this country

lol.. fuck this asshole

In a contentious interview, the senator also suggested that Trump should ignore “illegitimate” US supreme court rulings.

The interview ended badly, with the network cutting to a commercial break after Stephanopoulos told Vance he had made it “very clear” he believed a president can defy the supreme court.

“No, no, George …” Vance said before the sound was cut.

He went to Yale Law School, he knows better. Fuck him, the freakish little opportunist.

Pfft, just because someone went to an elite law school, you expect them to know about, and adhere to, laws?

Well, tbf, with Yale it is sometimes touch and go.

"Hi Dad, I'm at Yale!"

lol

A South Dakota tribe has banned the state’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, from one of the US’s largest reservations after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the southern border with Mexico.

The Oglala Sioux tribe president said Noem’s ban from the Pine Ridge reservation resulted from the fact that many arriving at the US border with Mexico are Indigenous people from places like El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico, who come “in search of jobs and a better life”.

“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.

Also... for the Great Real Names thread: Frank Star Comes Out

Good for them.

(Old joke: "Can you explain this four-year gap in your resume?"

"That's when I went to Yale."

"Okay, great, you're hired."

"Thanks, I really need this yob.")

Scott Adams did almost that same joke in Dilbert many years ago. “So Sven, I heard you went to Yale?” “I yust got out last week.”

Oglala Lakota in Pine Ridge is my tribe, she got banned from the rez a few years back once already IRRC, so it's nothing new.

The Oglala seriously should start erecting razor wire and guard towers at their borders. They’re an actual sovereign nation, unlike Texas.

Boring, I am shocked (SHOCKED) to hear that the knee-slappin' rib-ticklin' humor of Scott Adams might be somewhat recycled.

disgusted that this is probably good politics

President Biden: The toughest reforms to secure the border ever likely won't even move forward to the Senate floor. Why? Donald Trump. He’d rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it. So he’s threatening Republicans and they are caving to him pic.twitter.com/74IvYZ3sW5

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) February 6, 2024

(as suggested in https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/upshot/biden-economy-border-polls.html)

Yeah, I think they tacitly agreed to several really awful provisions because they knew it wouldn't pass anyway

Another case of 'dog catches car' for the GOP

doesn't seem thrilled

McCONNELL when asked by @frankthorp if he misread his conference: “I followed the instructions of my conference… It was my side that wanted to tackle the border. We started it. Obviously with a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate, our negotiators had to deal with them.”

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) February 6, 2024

pretty bleak that trump-era policy is basically the official democratic party line on immigration though.

We're currently harvesting what the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, sowed.

GOP- “policy not quite inhumane and racist as it needs to be.”

When the GOP presidential nominee says he wants to setup huge concentration camps to deport migrants, I guess they have a (sick) point.

The problem is, I don't know what the Dems want except what they're proposing: the most ruthless border policy bill in history, giving a president unprecedented power. Schumer and Jeffries know the GOP will reject it because Trump will, and so the Dems like the GOP stall until November. The Dem governors bleat because it's an election year and They Can't Look Weak. It's all a fucking pantomime.

except it isn’t, it has real consequences and people die because of it

i mean obviously you know that but that any of this is a debate at all makes me absolutely livid, sorry for my fire, not directed at you

That's my point, though! People will die between now and November.

The political class seems largely indifferent to such deaths.

It's not Aunt Dottie crossing into Macallan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhhXAe_mxE

And of course it’s the same fucking strategy that they tried under Obama, of looking so tough on immigration that Republicans will definitely give them credit and certainly not accuse them of supporting open borders anyway.

I thought this was a worthwhile interview on Radio War Nerd:

Radio War Nerd EP 424 — Iran Inside Washington's Head, feat. Trita Parsi
Feb 06 2024
Guest: Trita Parsi
Recorded: February 5, 2024
We talk to Trita Parsi about Washington's unhealthy obsession with Iran, what it means to be an Iran-backed Iraqi militia group & the absurdity of Late American Empire.

ppl generally like to be where they are. What policies would reasonably promote THAT? what does that mean for just policy?

Thread title delivers:

Tucker Carlson apparently pictured in Russia amid rumours of interview with Putin
Former Fox News host, who is sympathetic to the Russian president, appeared in Kremlin media at a performance of Spartacus in Moscow

(pops champagne bottle)

Impeachment fails I think

Holy shit-- Blake Moore of Utah voted no, final tally is 214-216.

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 6, 2024

nice

Jesus, imagine putting impeachment on the floor when you haven’t counted the votes

https://i.imgur.com/S5bmWcu.gif

PBS News Hour confirms it has failed

hahahahah

Three Republicans — Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher and California Rep. Tom McClintock — joined the Democrats in voting against the resolution to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

GOP Rep. Blake Moore joined the no side to allow House Republicans to bring up the vote again.

The House GOP also has three vacancies after the departures of Kevin McCarthy and Bill Johnson, and the expulsion of George Santos.

Lol

What a fucking embarrassment.

cool country

too bad, so sad

When you can't even get your shit together to do meaningless trolling.

Mike Johnson has obviously got off to a stumbling start, this is a self-inflicted face plant at the worst time for his conference

Tobo, that's where I usually keep my children. They are pretty cool.

I think the local guy who was in prison for J6 stuff is somehow close to release already. His public statement via his attorney was very much “I’ve seen the error of my ways” but I think there’s a close to zero chance that he doesn’t do something else dumb.

He violated his pre-trial terms once by using his wife’s phone to watch the mypillow guy’s conference

lol, that's probably one of the saddest sentences I've ever read. Imagine risking more jail time to watch the fuckin' mypillow guy rant.

put the mypillow guy in jail and everyone wins

Idiot wind is blowing gale force through many trees these days.

Hey what's the March thread title going to be?
I vote "Uncommitmentum"

What was that thing Trump's on to now, "Languages nobody's ever heard of before"?

"We have languages coming into our country. We have nobody that even speaks those languages. They’re truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them, and they’re pouring into our country, and they’re bringing with them tremendous problems, including medical problems, as you know.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOoR8m0oms

The whole Hunter Biden transcript is full of fun stuff:

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Hunter-Biden-Transcript_Redacted.pdf

US Politics, March 2024: The house of illuminati will NOT be holding any other event in the foreseeable future.