US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

it's very nice!

For no particular reason whatsoever here are some photos of Roosevelt House, the recently renovated Edward Durell Stone-designed residence of the U.S. ambassador to India pic.twitter.com/5jrLLVP2Hq

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 23, 2021

Are we letting Indian Muslims claim asylum in it

make Jenny Durkan ambassador to Belarus Palestine imo, she loves war crimes

this weekend is the anniversary of my first tear-gassing!

I think Japan ambassador is a bit more important these days, with all the N Korea shenanigans and the stuff in the South China Sea going on.. not just a Siberian appointment to keep him out of the public eye

Oh great Rahm is going to start a war with China by accident now

It's May. Reagan's major legislation, just as an example, didn't get signed into law until the summer.

This is a bad example since Democrats held the House, no?

Yet with the help of Boll Weevils our beloved Ronnie passed his tax bill.

They need to get decorated WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I & II vets doing ads shaming the GOP about 1/6 and calling out their BS.

Nbd just a sitting member of Congress calling for armed slaughter of American citizens…

Florida Man @mattgaetz, talking about Silicon Valley canceling conservatives says "We have a 2nd amendment in this country and I THINK WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO USE IT!" pic.twitter.com/FFEWnyEF0o

— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) May 27, 2021

but listen, the long arms of the law are closing in on him as we type! you can't just be an openly corrupt fascist and keep getting on tv like that!

i heard that no ToS is legally binding if you have a gun (because of the constitution)

also what i heard

READ IT. LEARN IT.

.@SenFeinstein says this is “the first time” she has had heard about proposals to abolish the filibuster, but as reported in the @LATimes on 4/6/21, Feinstein was quoted discussing the filibuster & being “open” to changing “Senate filibuster rules.” https://t.co/wUuPvLmUsH https://t.co/pmfSBdIfbg

— Marie Coronel (@10NewsCoronel) May 27, 2021

Tbf she's always on the toilet

wait, what century is it again?

god she needs to retire so badly

When someone deepthroats Biden’s political genius in, uh, ridiculing opponents in a video no one outside of Blue Twitter has watched,

if you consider unperson's post "deepthroating" you must be a terrible lay

vote on 1/6 commission failed, what a surprise

can't wait to hear what Manchin has to say about this

I wish every one of those fuckers that voted against it would have had to look Sicknick's mother in the eyes while they cast it.

It's not like this was Beghazi, y'all. It was just the US Capitol, nbd

There's probably still more to learn about Beghazi, tbrr, let's get on that

holy fuck Sinema didn't even show up

God I hate her so much.

was there a huge sale at Talbots or something

lmao

Had to pick out a cute outfit for the next time she votes against helping out her constituents.

Abolish the senate

If there's ever a "Things People Did In The 2010s" thread, then 'Thinking Sinema Was Cool' definitely belongs on that list.

The House still has the capacity and the authority to investigate the Capitol insurrection, including subpoena power. Pelosi has indicated that if the bipartisan commission was scotched by the Republicans, she'd be open to passing that task on to a House committee, under full Democratic control. The main problem there is that it will eat up time and energy that could be used on other legislation, but if the Senate is going to filibister to death every bill out of the House that becomes a non-issue.

i would like for a whole bunch of sitting congresspeople to be expelled from congress immediately, in the same way that i would like for the angry sweaty man who is yelling at the receptionist for no reason to be expelled from the minute clinic

that is my only demand

https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/5afecb4/2147483647/resize/1160x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F00%2Fd0%2F0bfacc894ad1aed4c2c373b0d88a%2Fgettyimages-1320041418-1.jpg

Good morning!

11 Republican senators are out of town. You can literally change the rules right now to abolish it. Like literally right now https://t.co/4gcZXCzDMx

— Gasoline Bagger (@lib_crusher) May 28, 2021

ha I would like to see the vote count on that if it happened literally right now

At very least return it to the talking filibuster

god I wish they had the stones

xp otm

as josh marshall often points out, under the current setup the minority party doesn't even have to show up or exert any effort in order to filibuster. the final vote was 54-35 - they didn't even have to put up 40 votes today!

in fact, these days they barely even have to say they'll filibuster in the first place! it's just assumed that they will.

but i guess there's nothing that can be done

*flies home early to support the troops*

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/takeaways-from-the-jan-6-filibuster/sharetoken/DZnuesyHTI22

marshall - takeaways from the jan 6 filibuster

oops posted that link twice, sorry

don't sic me, that sharetoken+alphanumeros is important because that article is for PRIME members only, so i need to give you all my exclusive SHARE token so you can see it too

*beams like a granddad at a t-ball game*

I would like to think that some savvy progressive is lining up to primary Sinema, but then I think about the full court press of Democrats and their cable news mouthpieces spending months telling us how this “actually helps Trump and Putin” and it’s just like *sigh* wgaf

wouldn't happen til 2024 anyway

I'll most likely vote for any Dem who challenges her, but being that my US Rep is Paul fucking Gosar I find it a bit difficult to spare any loathing for Sinema.

At very least return it to the talking filibuster

I am so out of the loop on some things that I didn't realize it wasn't still a talking filibuster until last fall. what the ever living fuck is the point of this thing if you don't have to force them to actually stand there until they drop?

hasn't been for maaaaaaaaaaany years

so fucking dumb that they can't even manage to bring THAT back. it's clearly only to the GOP advantage that you don't have to show up. there are certain democrats capable of showing up and speaking AT LENGTH, ad lib, in a passionate and convincing way, without lying constantly. There are currently ZERO GOP politicians that can do that

It boggles my mind that there’s a 60 vote threshold to defeat a filibuster rather than a 40 vote threshold to maintain one

and not only that, but the GOP is demonstrably lazy and brittle. they don't want to stay in DC and talk all night. all they'll do is "accidentally" say something that offends 1/3 of the world. it's better to go home and golf. after a month and a half of talking filibusters they'd just say fuck it to the whole idea

That was one of the reforms Manchin nixed IIRC

wouldn't happen til 2024 anyway