US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

what is a "voice" really, I mean we can just type everything. do we really need vocal cords

I trust the GOP to surmise who I'm going to vote for, not sure what else needs to be done

tbqh Pelosi calling Trump "morbidly obese" is stupid politics

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 19, 2020 3:22 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it sucks and she sucks for doing it

pretty big talk for a lady with an ice cream refrigerator

I didn’t respond to the Census this year hoping to cost Texas an EV

if she was the bosskween her acolytes suggest she would have dunked on his adult diaper which I’m sorry is just good politics

burning down the house on the way out the door

President Trump says he will sign an executive order directing all federal agencies "to use any and all authority to waive, suspend, and eliminate unnecessary regulations that impede economic recovery"

"And we want to leave it that way," he adds https://t.co/Nj065CIsxp pic.twitter.com/OILEX1mu4G

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 19, 2020

I love that he only wants to waive, suspend or eliminate the "unnecessary" ones. Presumably, since they all were designed to serve a legitimate regulatory purpose, and so long as that purpose is being served they wouldn't be unnecessary.

I heard Andrew Cuomo say today that this is the first time the federal government has been "vital" since WWII so I gather there won't be a lot of pushback on what's "unnecessary"

The glaring part there is "we want to leave it thay way". I like my slopes slippery!

But waaaah it's the radical left who want to use the pandemic to institute their socialist agenda

Predicted response: "Sorry, we can't extend assignments for the sheer purpose of you getting benefits. It's bigger than one person."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/national-guard-coronavirus-267514

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-05-19/trump-says-u-s-virus-cases-are-badge-of-honor-for-testing

“I view it as a badge of honor, really, it’s a badge of honor,” Trump told reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. “It’s a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done.”

…

Contrary to Trump’s claim, U.S. testing levels aren’t extraordinary. The U.S. trails countries like the U.K., Italy and Germany in tests conducted per 1,000 people, Bloomberg data show. And the U.S. is finding a case for every 7.8 tests, far behind other countries like New Zealand, Australia and South Korea, who have to test far higher numbers of people to find a case, according to figures compiled by Our World In Data.

already sowing the seeds for cancelling the 2020 election on Twitter I see

Fortunately my father-in-law's house is dry, but he doesn't live too far from where the two dams broke in Michigan. He's also out of the evacuation zone, but still concerning.

And I wake up to see the asshole president is withholding any funds for Michigan because they expanded mail voting. Will this fuck ever experience even one tiniest bit of accountability???

Election Day.

already sowing the seeds for cancelling the 2020 election on Twitter I see

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

Only Congress can do that, so good luck

Here come some firings that we are told have nothing to do with this leak:

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/498697-cdc-officials-say-lives-and-money-lost-by-delayed

(lest anybody give me shit over The Hill, I'm at work posting shit in the two minutes I have to post)

I'm already excited for Susan Collins to clutch her pearls before every single member of Congress does absolutely fuck all once again.

Xpost note, no firings are happening. I'm predicting them after Trump is told about this article

Safe prediction, I'm sure firings will follow late Friday. And next week we can hear a few gasps and read one or two indignant tweets.

Only Congress can do that, so good luck
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9:37 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

so expect the Dems to give up mail in balloting in exchange for a second polling location in Milwaukee

Texas just had their right to mail-in voting for any reason affirmed, I'm looking forward to trying it

CDC actually posted a revised version of their reopening plan this weekend with no fanfare, but apparently they had to strip out all this language about Communion cups being risky. No shit. That apparently was the line that was too far for the administration.

and social distancing in schools. now the guidance is for schools to distance pupils 'if possible'. well it's not possible. so...... fuck it i guess

Good morning!

life come at u fast

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/498643-two-southern-churches-forced-to-reclose-after-leaders-and

Two churches in Georgia and Texas that reopened recently amid the novel coronavirus pandemic have since closed their doors again after churchgoers and religious leaders tested positive for the virus, according to multiple media reports.

A representative for the Catoosa Baptist Tabernacle in Ringgold, Ga., told The Christian Post in a statement on Monday that the church decided earlier this month to no longer offer “in-person worship services for the foreseeable future” after confirming some of its families were “dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 virus.”

the people that got covid19 must have been sinners, and their families are being punished as well

it's just like they say, the sins of the father, and all that

Adam raised a Cain

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/858600098/progressives-see-coronavirus-crisis-as-a-chance-to-make-big-lasting-policy-chang

I don’t understand anything anymore. Is Nancy Pelosi a “progressive” democrat?

"Democrats cannot stop salivating, salivating over the possibilities for partisan gain," McConnell said last week on the Senate floor. "Eighty-thousand Americans have died. More than 20 million have lost their jobs. I call that a crisis. They call it leverage."

for some reason i instantly thought of the great times when the republicans tried to shut down the government over the tyranny of ...raising the debt ceiling

Leverage to help people you fucking ghoul.

McConnell rivals Trump in the projection game

can't believe they have the temerity to try to help people. this is a crisis. we should be doing nothing

they are salivating over the prospect of helping people. salivating!!

In some idle moments, I find myself wondering if life would be easier to be a person gullible enough to believe every word out of Mitch's mouth.

It might be, but you'd also be too dumb to know how to undo your trousers when you needed the bathroom, which would get icky

fair

the House relief package is being spun in right-wing circles as something that just gives money to abortionists. I lurk on my extended family's FB pages and they keep reposting this and screaming about Evil Nancy.

We sent a check to our local Planned Parenthood yesterday. Women don't stop needing health services during pandemics.

I don’t understand anything anymore. Is Nancy Pelosi a “progressive” democrat?

― brimstead, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 1:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

not to ILXors but in terms of the broader American political discourse, she definitely is

A lot of people still see San Francisco is the epicenter of the Loony Left.

^^^Elon Musk for one. #redpilled

Left and right united in despising Pelosi, horseshoe in action

I guess I just figured she was “moderate” because she’s to the “right” of say AOC but to the “left” of “blue dogs” ugh whatever

calling trump "morbidly obese" was sloppy

you can just say it was bad

Pelosi’s a deficit freak, she’s only progressive in the Bay Area stereotype.