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

If only he hadn't personally put a stop to coronavirus testing back in 2015.

headline for today's white house propaganda eblast: "have you considered eating cake?"

Ivanka Trump: College Isn’t the Only Job Path, ‘Find Something New’

What are the odds that in 2024 the lingering effects of this calamity are blamed on Joe Biden, should he win the presidency, regardless of what he does or how effective it is?

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, July 14, 2020 10:34 AM (seventeen minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

its being blamed on him right now

― frogbs, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 10:40 AM (eleven minutes ago)

coronavirus is 50% biden's fault, 50% obama's fault, tbf

thanks, coronabamen!

I think most of us know it's all up to left-leaning Dems (and the Dem Socs) to pressure a Biden admin, and I do mean nonstop, bcz aside from the "back to never thinking about the prez again" types, the Pelosi/Schumer fanclubs will be content with owning the Republican supervillains by, idk, wearing red dresses and tweeting the latest meme.

Remember when climate change was going to be the #1 campaign issue?

ok wow from this stolid institutionalist:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/joe-biden-2020-filibuster-360587

DJP is OTM up there

DJP is otm and it reminds me of an awful exchange with a pink rose brigand friend of a friend to whom I tried to explain how legislation gets passed.

What are the odds that in 2024 the lingering effects of this calamity are blamed on Joe Biden, should he win the presidency, regardless of what he does or how effective it is?

Republicans will do this even if Donald Trump is still President in 2024.

just like Obama got blamed for the 2008 meltdown. I'm sure the Biden people expect it.

i'm not ascribing evil intent to every democratic politician operating within the confines of how Business Gets Done in DC ca 2020, but I certainly don't think it's controversial to note that legislation will typically won't even make it to the sausage grinder if it's not signed off by the donor class first. that's unambiguously awful.

ok wow from this stolid institutionalist:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/joe-biden-2020-filibuster-360587

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:03 PM (thirteen minutes ago)

this seems....really big? and a very good thing?

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday signaled he would be open to the Senate ending its practice of imposing a 60-vote threshold for most legislation, a positional shift from the Democratic presidential nominee who spent more than 35 years as a senator.

In comments to journalists Monday that were reported by The New York Times, Biden said he hoped to create systemic change on an array of issues in the U.S. and said he was open to measures that would allow legislation to pass the Senate with a simple majority vote.

...“I do think we’ve reached a point, a real inflection in American history. And I don’t believe it’s unlike what Roosevelt was met with,” Biden told reporters on Monday. “I think we have an opportunity to make some really systemic change.”

...Biden’s comments come amid a shift in messaging from traditionally centrist Democrats, who now are no longer ruling out aggressive action to pass legislation. Most prominently, Biden ally Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told POLITICO in June that he would not rule out banning the filibuster.

“I will not stand idly by for four years and watch the Biden administration's initiatives blocked at every turn,” Coons said. “I am gonna try really hard to find a path forward that doesn't require removing what's left of the structural guardrails, but if there's a Biden administration, it will be inheriting a mess, at home and abroad. It requires urgent and effective action.”

In 2017, Coons spearheaded a letter to support the filibuster and block measures from fellow Democrats to eliminate it.

the Coons thing, too. and i like how Biden is explicitly tying it to FDR/New Deal. this is not "winning", but this is a good sign

eg single payer healthcare xp

is there a VP pick thread? alfred will biden lose FL if he picks karen bass because she once said a nice thing about castro?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/karen-bass-joe-biden-running-mate/613975/

i find the speculation in that article that he wants to avoid being seen to anoint the next president by picking someone less likely to run in 2024 interesting.

Trump admin. just carried out the first federal execution in 17 years. In the midst of a pandemic. Against the wishes of the victims’ families, who both didn’t want the execution, and asked it be postponed so they could attend without fear of COVID. Two more planned this week. https://t.co/YYP7tzZQXR

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) July 14, 2020

as easy as it is to say 'twas ever thus, i just don't think the impediments to Better Things have ever been more entrenched or better financed

but hey, on a paradoxically hopeful note maybe the low-to-high-key immiseration of virtually everyone who's not a white boomer (and even a lot of those) is going to bring about a sea change.

as easy as it is to say 'twas ever thus, i just don't think the impediments to Better Things have ever been more entrenched or better financed

another way to look at this is "if things are always getting worse, right now might be the best chance you ever get"

"Ivanka Trump: College Isn’t the Only Job Path, ‘Find Something New'"

this shit is infuriating, it's the standard canard from rich republicans who went to school speaking to poor rural voters. in all honesty: I used to advocate for this too. And I maintain that a lot of money should be flowed toward vocational training as well as community colleges. But that doesn't mean you dissuade people from going to college and make it impossible for them to afford to do so unless they're already rich.

i'd been trying to find him on the record about this for a while. i think this is the first time? obviously doesn't matter unless he does something about procedural roadblocks, but this is good.

DC should be a state. Pass it on. https://t.co/xUJ1sud76f

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 25, 2020

(good in the context of him talking about the filibuster i mean)

an hours old quote, but:

2009-10 briefly featured a democratic supermajority in the senate

starring Joe Lieberman as the critical 60th vote

another potentially hopeful note on Biden:
if he has the capacity to gracefully accept his mortality (instead of this sociopathic generational preference for walking out on the check and then burning down the all-u-can eat boomer buffet) maybe he’ll just say Fuck it let’s be legends and go real big. He def doesn’t need to busy himself w careerist strategizing.

Live remarks on the climate plan for anyone who cares to watch https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/biden-climate-plan.html

BTW the "Biden is Planning an FDR Presidency" has been Dem messaging for months now.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/joe-biden-presidential-plans.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/22/joe-biden-radicalism-fdr-economic-crisis-coronavirus
https://www.newsweek.com/2020/06/12/joe-biden-moderate-plans-most-radical-economic-overhaul-since-fdr-1507674.html

Lmao they gave up

NEWS: Government has agreed to rescind the July 6 policy on international students and online learning and FAQ released the next day. Also agreed to rescind any implementation and will return to status quo of March 9 guidance

— Karin Fischer (@karinfischer) July 14, 2020

The more significant fact is that they even tried.

yes the damage is done

thatll show em

Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC and send key coronavirus information to a Washington database, alarming health officials https://t.co/hb3PHaA9xr pic.twitter.com/nvhPmmfa0P

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 14, 2020

morale must be rock bottom at CDC right now, among the career employees. 4 former CDC administrators blasted CDC for sucking at everything, and on the same day it's revealed that the trump admin is just bypassing them as much as possible (bypassing them to...what? another part of HHS? to the task force? to jared? god, the internal dysfunction is crazy)

The international student thing is a huge fuckin seal for my university

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/07/article-0-00D2E0E01000044C-735_634x444.jpg

Governors, big-city mayors, public health officials, and congressional leaders should be resigning in disgrace, firing those responsible, groveling for forgiveness, or fleeing town under cover of night.

Instead, they are mainly just waiting for the worst to be over, until the moment they, too, can put out celebratory posters...

https://newrepublic.com/article/158489/andrew-cuomo-coronavirus-mountain-poster-governors-should-resign

BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized for a possible infection, per a SCOTUS spokesperson.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 14, 2020

not to blow things out of proportion...WHAT IF

RBG dies, mcconnell and trump, with the backing of all republicans and conservatives, decide to push through a nomination 5 months before the 2020 election, even though they famously refused to raise Garland's nomination to vote 8 months before the 2016 election, and just to twist the knife, mcconnell invokes the "nuclear option" and obliterates the filibuster to push the nomination, reasoning that Democrats were going to do it soon anyway

on the other hand, maybe it's just a skin infection! DON'T DIE RBG JFC

they already eliminated the filibuster for supreme court confirmations with gorsuch

not to blow things out of proportion...WHAT IF

RBG dies, mcconnell and trump, with the backing of all republicans and conservatives, decide to push through a nomination 5 months before the 2020 election, even though they famously refused to raise Garland's nomination to vote 8 months before the 2016 election, and just to twist the knife, mcconnell invokes the "nuclear option" and obliterates the filibuster to push the nomination, reasoning that Democrats were going to do it soon anyway

Then we lose a Supreme court seat but (due to a tidal wave of Dem voter rage) gain the Senate - now minus the filibuster - and the presidency? Seems like kind of a mixed bag result for the criminals.

they already eliminated the filibuster for supreme court confirmations with gorsuch

goddamn that's right

they're saying antibiotic treatment so doubtful it's COVID but any infection at that age is nerveracking.

c'mon, RBG.....:/

full statement:

Justice Ginsburg was admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland early this morning for treatment of a possible infection. She was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. last night after experiencing fever and chills. She underwent an endoscopic procedure at Johns Hopkins this afternoon to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August. The Justice is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment.

they already eliminated the filibuster for supreme court confirmations with gorsuch

and kavanaugh still barely squeaked in even after the bar was lowered to 50 + Pence's potential tie breaker.

lol this fucking presser

just using an official Rose Garden presser as a campaign rally nbd

still deeply funny to me so many people are so gun shy from 2016 they think trump has some secret mode he’s gonna pivot into at any moment when all he does is go out in public and puke on himself in more spectacular fashion than the last time he did it

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 14, 2020

Per the presser... in America in twenty years: suburbs are outlawed, buildings have no windows, women vergender (?), lobsters something something.

are you pro-vergender or anti-window?? pick a side!!

Justin Vergender

Vergenders Endgame

Maybe she will retire

Women have a vergender, boys have a covfefe.