US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

yesn

Not Postmaster General?

where's the tax returns?

oppo dump

Is red dawn still a film shown to the youth as something one should live by.

Morality once meant something. & not about lowest price one could go for.

I mean the shite that goes on in the US does have a lot of repercussion worldwide so i would watch what is sanctioned, innit.

don't you have a brexit thread to post in? why do you keep inflicting your idle musings on us?

I’m really warming up to Stevolende’s posting style. We should all start from the least cynical position we can stand and then, socratically, end up staring doom in the face.

also devote a line break to each of our thoughts
i guess i could talk about how much i hate republicans here
and then express some of my apparently infinite despair here

I wasn’t being sarcastic!

1992 was a good year for women elected to the Senate (partly because of Anita Hill I think) - Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Carol Moseley-Braun. We need to elect a lot more. The Senate should be at least 50% women

I wasn’t being sarcastic!

― El Tomboto, Friday, October 5, 2018 5:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

neither was i
ok maybe a little

sorry stevo that started feeling a little mean, i have no problem with your posting style

i could do without the functionally inert rhetorical form of a question expressing an uncontested sentiment of your audience though

Out camping this weekend and not really accessing news anymore but I hope y'all are doing ok

do you want us to catch you up on all the important tweets you missed

wish I were out camping

cosign

The Senate should be at least 50% women

― Dan S, Friday, October 5, 2018 6:35 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree with the sentiment here but also the senate should be abolished

yes

Ilx should be 50% women

But OH WELL

^^^

but also ilx shd be abolished

lol

Murkowski has emerged from this with some credibility

Ilx should be 50% women

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie),

I disagree. Not bc i dislike my bros at all but it would be better to have more women and more people in general

mods please only allow new regs from women

woke

Murkowski has emerged from this with some credibility

kind of, sort of. They had one vote to give, so she got it, one less Republican senator and she would be a yes.

yeah you're probably right

it's all pretty cynical isn't it

we need at least 50% women progressives / democrats in the Senate

and in ilx

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/House_Member_Introduces_Resolution_To_Abolish_the_Senate.htm

1911, sadly

obviously r/n abolishing the senate would just expose us to the gerrymandered house but otherwise i might make "abolish the senate" my "where's the tax returns?"

though tbh if it weren't egregiously spammy i would just get on ilx every morning and post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEsS5kFb8

Abolish any reference to religion within government communications or in federal/state buildings.

Remove all of the perks and prestige and force elected officials to wear maybe like a burlap sack or a diaper and also a set of those dumb redneck teeth.

though tbh if it weren't egregiously spammy i would just get on ilx every morning and post this:

good mourning

wheres those taxessss

I can’t stop watching this. pic.twitter.com/7GVvCLKR6M

— James Corden (@JKCorden) October 6, 2018

That is maybe the purest distillation of the Fox News essence

Final frame on a Clinton and everything

the performative fake normalcy of drinking bud light which they can't even do without short-circuiting
ingraham not stopping for a second to see if the hired chud is okay in her speed to deliver boilerplate whataboutery against the UCLU

it followed an item about an increased number of selfie deaths btw. Nothing political. Just innocently making fun of dead people.

ilx should be 50% less american

Kavanaugh decision necessitates massive, sustained civil disobedience from now until whenever Thomas, Roberts, "I like beer" or one of these other ghouls croaks

I hope nobody who voted to confirm this frat fuck gets a good night's sleep ever again

ilx should be 50% less american

My greatest fear right now is being unable to find a job outside of the US in my painfully cramped subfield. I can't think of a single Western nation I loathe nearly as much. Even fucking Italy and Austria strike me as less pernicious at the moment due to their limited power.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the fact that there hasn't been a May 68-like general strike all across the country since Trump got elected goes to show how strong the tacit consensus is ('this is a tad excessive, but still acceptable'). The resistance is there, but its numbers are frankly pathetic. The fact of the matter is that Trump represents the democratic will of the American people at the moment; he really does stand for what the majority thinks is tolerable, even though it disagrees with some of the 'finer' points. This wouldn't be a big deal to me if the epidemic were under quarantine, but the US is currently empowering fascism all over the world.

I'm not blaming any of you personally, btw. I just happen to be more convinced than ever that most human beings are ultimately kind of alright with fascism, and not just in the US.

I kinda think almost everybody thinks that fascism is totally bad and unacceptable. Unless... And it turns out a lot of people have really surprisingly low thresholds for when fascism is the least bad option. The 'Never Trumpers' now saying that they've been driven towards Trump because of Kavanaugh would be laughable, if it wasn't both so despairing and so utterly predictable.

It's as if the word 'fascism' were awful and unforgivable but not the thing itself. Same with 'racism', 'sexism', etc.

good mourning

― canary christ (stevie)

damn you!