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

"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.

Hens fap

does anyone have thoughts on theresa greenfield (running against Ernst in IA)? her website looks like a squarespace demo

tell me more about the lobsters, I'm still deciding who I'm voting for

i donated to her because she's running against ernst. i have no thoughts on her.

(that's an xp to karl malone)

mh likely knows the inside scoop on ernst's opponent.

The people of Alabama apparently believe the rest of America should have to say the words "Senator Tuberville" without laughing.

lol I saw someone online suggest playing up the Alabama/Auburn rivalry as a way to get fans of the former to vindictively vote against him. In this situation that's so stupid it might just be smart.

fuck sports rivalries as politics

Caught about two minutes of his whatever-it-was today. Very satisfying to hear how robotic and lifeless--demoralized, I assume--he sounded.

things that are real:

If it’s Goya, it has to be good.
Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno. pic.twitter.com/9tjVrfmo9z

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 15, 2020

I literally just read about the Goya thing five minutes ago

https://frinkiac.com/video/S04E16/jIH3d9cvIon28WebnHsM6KV-aXc=.gif

I would have thought she'd be more of an all beans matter sorta person

ted cruz's grandparents ate two cans of goya beans every day despite their being made in nyc and unavailable in cuba at the time

that's how much they loved america

Goya was terrible before their politics. They gave me pantry moths and diarrhea. Maybe they’ll impart the same blessings to 1600 Penn Ave.

...ohhhhh boya.