US Politics, March 2020 — There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die.

Reid was a cold-eyed motherfucker who controlled Nevada. The last of the bosses.

http://www.iagreetosee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/senator-harry-reid-boxing.png

he was literally a boxer

Before Reid was Tom "I'm Deeply Saddened" Daschle.

Ugh christ dont remind me

wtf i'm a harry reid fan now thanks a fucking lot CHUCK

aoc should primary schumer when she turns 30

aoc should hit him in the head with the back of a skateboard

those two things are not mutually exclusive my friend!!!! walk and chew gum!

"Chuck, I am here to announce that I am here to surprise you by running against you in the primaries."

"...really? You think you have a chance against me?"

"Hey everybody! If I can have your attention. Please take one step forward if you have teeth. Not so fast, Chuck"

*wham*

guess someone wont be able to walk and chew gum anymore!!

its chuck schumer who wont because he has no teeth btw

keeps his caucus together = the new New Deal in Shakeyland

https://i.imgur.com/LBidpFC.jpg

Amazing shot

i bet pence and inslee did a quick shoulders only hug immediately after this

also: that facial expression!

TIL that you can get 2 years probation for dumping a glass of water on a (piece of shit) senator:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2020/03/05/blake-gibbins-sentenced-throwing-water-steve-king/4931991002/

Worth it.

(sorry, congressman)

Still a piece of shit, you got the important part right.

I have just one message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke, if you want to take everyone’s AR-15s, why don’t you swing by my office in Washington, D.C. and start with this one?

Come and take it. #2A pic.twitter.com/jG2SiXetov

— Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) March 6, 2020

Never not be hilarious to me how gun nuts think shit like that makes them seem the epitome of a tough guy, when all I see is a scared paranoid wimp

ken buck, whose parents were both lawyers, grew up in the northern nyc suburbs and was an all-ivy league punter for the princeton football team

pretty badass

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah plans to vote in favor of a subpoena as part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into Burisma, a key decision that could advance the GOP investigation into the Ukrainian energy firm tied to Joe Biden’s son.

Romney had raised concerns that the investigation had the appearance of a political probe aimed at hurting Joe Biden, who has reemerged in the 2020 primary as the Democratic front-runner to take on President Donald Trump.

But Romney’s office said Friday that Johnson alleviated his concerns of a “public spectacle,” so he agreed to back the subpoena to a public affairs consultant who worked with Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm that hired Biden’s son Hunter.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/politics/mitt-romney-supports-ron-johnson-subpoena-burisma/index.html

Ha, what a pussy.

xpost That red white and blue machine gun is full "Idiocracy."

maybe the Bidens can change the subject to busing

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-said-desegregation-would-create-a-racial-jungle-2019-7

Two confirmed coronavirus cases at AIPAC -

CNN: Six former wrestlers say Rep. Jim Jordan knew about abusive OSU doctor

surely jordan will have to resign in shame, right

oh you

mulvaney out?

Meadows?

FUCK

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to turn over the unredacted Mueller report, accusing AG Barr of misrepresenting its findings, and saying Barr lacks both candor and credibility.

I'm sure he'll get right on that.

iow, a federal judge making the most of having a lifetime appointment, which is just what the founders hoped they'd do - when it comes to kowtowing to the prevailing political bosses. sadly, there are now more than a hundred federal judges able to thumb their noses at any jurisprudence established after 1850.

Its a world question rather than a US specific question as the same story is playing out in country after country, but how do you stop the right winning elections by posing as insurgents, outsiders, and somehow not in power - running against an 'establishment' that actually isn't in power. Thats how 2020 is shaping up to be. This cake-and-eat-it strategy has yet to fail anywhere in the world (I think?)

^^ Brexit won (at least the 2019 general) by running on the principle that democracy is elitist

The way to stop it here is by declawing the senate and removing the electoral college. Pretty straightforward.

This is the wrong hour for me to start getting caught up in violent fantasies driven by hopelessness

There is a couple of ways to lessen it. 1) have every other party be mean to foreigners. This is morally a bad idea, and only pushes the right-wing parties further right to distinguish themselves again. However, they sometimes go to far and lose support. Otoh, now you have literal nazis in politics... 2) give them power and enough rope to hang themselves with. This has worked in Denmark recently, where the right-wing party got caught up in scandals and semi-corrupt policy decisions. 3) fix the underlying problems. Raise taxes, improve the welfare state. And also, refugees don't like fleeing, so less bombing / letting dictators bomb, and there's less foreigners arriving in the first place.

I'm sure none of you have ever thought of these ideas

well why would we think of something that has worked in denmark recently

give them power and enough rope to hang themselves with.

Aside from the last 40 years?

In the near-term the best hope is that a bunch of billionaires get coronavirus at one of their blood sacrifice orgies.

2) give them power and enough rope to hang themselves with. This has worked in Denmark recently

can we refer you to the UK since 2010, Australia since 2013, and the US since 2001 2017 as a counterpoint

Hey, Denmark 2001-2011 is a counterpoint too. It worked 2011-2015

semi-corrupt policy decisions

without knowing anything about Danish politics at all I'm going to point out that you're obviously wrong here. but I'm going to bed so you've got eight hours to explain how Australia's policy decisions in the last seven years have yet to reach the heights of Denmark's semi-corruptness

The thing I'm talking about is getting unnecessary highways to help traffic near a restaurant owned by a party member, stuff like that. Pork. Made them look like the same as the old guys.

Politicians of both parties do that in the US, it's considered a feature rather than a bug when it's your Senator/Rep/party member. Job creation! See also: the never-ending stream of Hunter Biden coverage we're about to receive.

Meadows?
FUCK

I... guess? Why does anyone care?

I'll take "unexpected silver linings" for $500, Alex.

"Cruz says he shook hands with the CPAC patient, will self quarantine"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/08/coronavirus-live-updates/#link-QCBW4IFSVJEKPOCRDYB2LSXTUU