US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

I understand, milo. If Biden wins, he'll call for a new NAFTA, wonder why the Dem House and Senate haven't proposed a new crime bill, and nominate a moderate Republican to the Supreme Court on the advice of Vice President-Elect Kasich.

“His only real interest is political expediency” would make it more likely for him to kowtow to conservative backers, anyway. Then he can get things done with his grand bargains.

mmhmm I see

Presidency's gonna be dissolved anyway

xp - yes, that’s an unbelievable thought for the guy who last month offered up increasIng police funding by $300bn. Really reading the mood of Democratic voters and responding appropriately.

Like Obama, Biden is essentially a 1970’s Republican

how often is this argument going to happen

who's kerry duggan, is she the mom from that Holy Shit Sixteen Children show on tlc

remember them

how often is this argument going to happen

Every 12 hours until November, and every 24 hours thereafter.

it's as if a Bidensignal goes out in the sky for milo's benefit.

https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bidensignal.jpg

Biden is essentially a 1970’s Republican

1970s Republicans came in a lot of flavors, from Goldwater and Reagan to Tom McCall, Oregon's governor, who held a state-sponsored three day rock music festival smaller than - but similar to - Woodstock, including the drugs and nudity.

it's as if a Bidensignal goes out in the sky for milo's benefit.

More a “someone posted another dumb Yglesias take” signal.

no, the dumb take there was the idea that republicans will "have 10x more influence on Biden and the DNC than the entire progressive wing," which is so stupid that only the #neverbiden crowd could believe it

I’m sure that Jay Caspian King meant that as a literal percentage, being a measurable statistic and all.

Police activity is being reported at Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s farm in Perry County and the U.S. Attorney’s office said it is holding a 2:30 p.m. press conference today related to $60 million in bribes paid to a state official and associates.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Hoffman and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio David DeVillers are expected to brief the press on a federal racketeering case, a news advisory says.

Householder, a farmer and businessman in Glenford, has led the GOP-controlled Ohio House since January 2019. He previously held the speaker’s gavel 2001 to 2004 but left due to term limits....

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/breaking-news-fbi-agents-are-at-ohio-house-speaker-larry-householders-farm/JCKHFEK4ZFH5HJF5O4MCP3BY2M/

wow.

Larry Householder came to hold the most power in THE Ohio state House, and then he went mad with power

Lol in this picture the guy is giving Traficant a run for his money for "guy most likely to be corrupt."
https://www.daytondailynews.com/resizer/8GW1uXAscGBf2iqiuzBoyT6Bz_8=/1066x600/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coxohio/IKSRQNY2DWJC52R3CGTJK2HJDA.jpg

You don’t get those rolls unless you’re swimming in dirty money that’s for sure

Illinois speaker of the house seems to be on borrowed time as well.

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$60 million is some clown shit. At that point, you're basically screaming "ARREST ME PLZ"

Even for Ohio politics this is just carelessness. The nuclear angle is not confirmed as yet but I suspect that's what it is. https://t.co/iilOtFVtol

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 21, 2020

Idk I admire him holding out for a cool 60 mil, most of these machine freaks can be had for like 100 grand and a rub and tug at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

upgrading Ohio Republican corruption from the Mark Hanna/McKinley days

A million here, a million there... pretty soon you're talkin about real money

what are the most corrupt state governments? NY/RI/OH/IL pop to mind, but maybe i just haven't heard enough about FL/WI/NC etc

Florida isn't corrupt, just moronic.

The charter school racket might rank closest.

Rick Scott was kind of inherently corrupt coming in, he didn't require the state to take him there.

something to be said about how we elected a guy whose company was fined for Medicare fraud, but hey, the other guy was A LIBRUL

As a neighbor, I don't get the sense that Wisconsin is so much corrupt as it is just ground zero for GOP efforts to flip what remains of the blue state Midwest.

what are the most corrupt state governments? NY/RI/OH/IL pop to mind, but maybe i just haven't heard enough about FL/WI/NC etc

*raises hand, waves from NJ*

Fascinating that Chris Christie somehow isn’t in prison over the bridge thing

here's a fun one:

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to surge, nearly three-quarters of Americans say the behavior of their fellow citizens is making the pandemic worse, according to new Axios-Ipsos polling.

The survey finds that 74 percent of Americans overall feel that way. Among Democrats, the number is even higher: 83 percent. Meanwhile, 65 percent of Republicans think other Americans are making things worse.

The same survey, which was released Tuesday, also finds that nearly a third of Americans (31 percent) think the actual death toll from the pandemic is less than what is being officially reported.

Republicans (59 percent) and people who get most of their political information from Fox News (61 percent) are the most likely to say that the real number of deaths is less than the official count, according to the polling. Meanwhile, most Democrats (61 percent) believe the real toll of the pandemic is greater than what has been officially reported.

as usual, the ~30% of the country that makes up the core of trump morons believes the exact opposite of the truth

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/axios_covid-19_w17-v2.jpg

all them dead bodies piled up in mounds

You'd think those Republicans would see all the bodies piled up, given the prominence of all those FEMA death camps.

Oh, wait, wrong president.

more than half the population is abnormal

FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Hoffman

not the point I know but "Special Agent in Charge" is an actual position?? It sounds like something my kid would make up

Apropos of not much, and 10 days early, but I nominate "I'll be right someday" for August thread title.

what are the most corrupt state governments? NY/RI/OH/IL pop to mind, but maybe i just haven't heard enough about FL/WI/NC etc

I think WI and NC are outstandingly corrupt in the political dimension (undercutting separation of powers, lame-duck skulduggery, voter suppression, etc.) but WI pols at least are not known for the refrigerator-full-of-cash style of corruption.

the FBI Special Agent in Charge reports directly to the G.R.O.S.S. Dictator-for-Life, iirc

Special Agent In Charge sounds like a Kevin James movie

sounds better in the original German etc etc

State-level we're merely notable, tho not noteworthy. The city of Philadelphia, however, easily makes top 5 most corrupt cities.

the level of ongoing, insane corruption in city and state government is perhaps the most surprising thing about the US to me now that i've been here for a few years. real failed state stuff. on another level to anything i've seen in any other country, but it's considered completely normal here.

Frank Rizzo taught me everything I needed to know about Philadelphia's city government.

the partisan polarization is why. when state and local governments are always run by members of the same party, incumbency is an even bigger hurdle for primary challengers to overcome, and any sort of accountability that's supposed to happen at the ballot box erodes to almost nothing.

DC is seeing more of its old machine politicians thrown out because the demographics are changing, and the new-ish voters are much less trusting of the characters who've been in charge.

don't worry, the thriving local news industry will find the wrongdoers.

The Washington Post still loves the old incumbents lol

the western us has been ruled by real estate interests and has been since the louisiana purchase, "government" exists to facilitate that