Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

In the joe era, karl is a troublemaker. I like it. I need a new thing too.

― treeship.

i am at heart a troublemaker, i think.

(or is that karl speaking)?

but yeah, honestly, i've been really messed up, in a really weird place, recently. i wish this inauguration stuff would lift me up a little, but i'm feeling more dissociated than ever. i'm hoping that this weirdness, right now, is kind of like puking a bunch after a wild evening. it sucks, it's bad, it acidic as hell, it's going to take some paper towels to clean up in some spots. it's that little swig of water in your mouth afterward, to briefly clean some of the puke remnants out from under the back of the tongue and the roof near the tonsils. but then you brush your teeth, swig some more water, swig some listerine, and go to bed. and when you wake up, about 30 minutes, you go back to the bathroom and you REALLY puke your guts out, and there's that nauseous realization that underneath all the other puke was the true puke. but then you go to bed again, and joe biden is q, probably.

It's fair to speculate that Obama will be some kind of senior advisor, if not formally

i took the day off work to watch the inauguration, then overslept until 12:45pm. so now i'm watching the old c-span livestream. no gaga or garth or new radicals, yet

Obama retire

So many of these shitty orders getting undone today. I get that McConnell was an effective leader of the senate for appointments but it doesn’t seem like they accomplished much in the way of legislation that can’t be undone by Biden.

Restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments to be ordered today at 5:15 pm EST..... https://t.co/gC8aJf1BPb #MonumentsForAll #StandWithBearsEars

— P. David Polly (@pdavidpolly) January 20, 2021

That's the bee's knees

Another plus, I guess, it that this thread isn't (yet) 67,000 posts of Bernie sitting forlornly in a chair. Unfortunately that appears to be about all Twitter is capable of processing today.

I don't get why there can't be multiple U.S. politics threads for subtopics in U.S. politics, especially given how active the main thread is. There are multiple threads about rock music on ILM.

jesus i step away for a meeting, I see 3 million new posts, I thought maybe Biden got sonned by a wite kid after a AOL beef

tbh I'm not a huge fan of the multiple politics threads cos half the time I forget which fuckin' one I'm in and post in the wrong one but it's still simultaneously also the right one so it doesn't matter and oh dear now i'm crosseyed

#onethread

(in other words, gyac otm)

A former bandmate of mine got pardoned. Can't say I'm surprised, but it's still hilarious to me that he (K3n Kurs0n) was thought to be too toxic by the Trump administration for a post.

lol this knucklehead floated notoriously just out of the periphery of my college social circle. Here's a contemporaneous Baffler takedown

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/three-scenes-from-a-bull-market

Fox News' Sandra Smith wonders if Biden signing executive orders on his first day will show he's not for unity, asking "what message does this send."

Chris Wallace: "It says that he won. It’s as simple as that." pic.twitter.com/y1zGSBubtV

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 20, 2021

lol

me signing executive orders rather than passing laws: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

me watching my successor sign executive orders: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Cuts both ways unfortunately

'm a little baffled by all the cheering on of Empire that's happening here and elsewhere on the internet, though, so I'm peacing out for now.

― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table)

It was at best an OK show.

And, yeah, table, I love you, and I'll tell you the same thing I'd say if we had beers in person: to wish Joe Biden signs meaningful legislation also means a Celebration of the Empire, so I guess all that Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, etc. taught me how to do dialectical thinking real good.

In other words, stop virtue signaling. We get it.

in other words, I am really fucking happy Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are in the executive branch again. Joe Biden also sucks.

That work?

Is this a serious post lol
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 1:39 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

...yes?

if i had to see the madison cawthorn signature, you have to see the madison cawthorn signature pic.twitter.com/2KKym3vr5O

— alex (@alex_abads) January 20, 2021

xxpost OTM

It's nearly imperceptible, but I'm feeling just the slightest physical release after four years of clenching, and the sensation is a little euphoric.

I didn't realize Madison Cawthorn was in fourth grade. His cursive is coming along great!

Some labor news: SEIU has been pressing Biden to immediately fire Peter Robb, the NLRB's Trump-appointed general counsel. That's not normally done under a new prez. It would be a precedent-setting move that shows Biden willing to play hardball for unions https://t.co/IN6NHCYVxS

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) January 14, 2021

Scoop w/@josheidelson: Biden demanded the resignation of the federal labor board's top attorney just after being sworn in today. No word yet whether he'll leave voluntarily or force Biden to fire him. https://t.co/iYyDZ6lIio

— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) January 20, 2021

I thought Madison signed right under Dick Van Dyke. I need new bifocals.

xp the good news just keeps comin'!

I want to read a hundred little items like that over the next few days as each little tick Trump embedded in various positions is plucked off and flushed away

And unlike the Trump White House, which replaced (or didn't!) each chump with a worse chump, there is pretty much nowhere to go but up.

The incoming Biden admin has hidden a message for IT folk in https://t.co/vF4SFEypzm's source code: pic.twitter.com/au0kdv0Fgp

— Raphael Satter (@razhael) January 20, 2021

I keep remembering all these outrages that would have been a huge deal if they weren’t just one of many. Like, are there any plans to move the FDA back from fucking Kansas?

In other words, stop virtue signaling. We get it.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 20:12 (seventeen minutes ago) link

Saying some is 'virtue signalling' is a textbook example of not getting it

My bad, USDA apparently

Saying some is 'virtue signalling' is a textbook example of not getting it

― xyzzzz__,

well, your posts here are textbook.

One of the good ones

I need to order t-shirts that say EMPIRE on them.

Have we even mentioned the coolest part of today? (After Kamala's swearing-in, that is)
There will be a rescue dog AND a cat inhabiting the White House

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1431677460.6399/ssrco,classic_tee,two_models,101010:01c5ca27c6,front,tall_portrait,750x1000.1.jpg

Alfred “virtue signaling” is a fake idea invented by reactionary trolls so maybe pick a different line of attack if you don’t want a reputation as a reactionary troll

gotta say, garth's amazing grace was pretty good! it was honest.

oh shit, i just his last verse. i'm being asked to sing along...i don't..is this the famous verse, shit here we go fuuuu

lady gaga's anthem was terrible but it's a terrible song

xps his candidate won, he doesn’t have to pretend to be progressive any more

watching a good national anthem is inspirational because it's like making strawberries out of a tarpit

Alfred “virtue signaling” is a fake idea invented by reactionary trolls so maybe pick a different line of attack if you don’t want a reputation as a reactionary troll

― Canon in Deez (silby)

If there's one thing I know, my public record suggests I'll earn a reputation as a reactionary troll.

So to be clear, table rolled in here with “Biden’s executive orders are good” followed almost immediately by “I don’t get why people are Celebrating The Empire” as if it’s not actually a big deal that a Black and Southeast Asian woman is Vice President for the first time in our history, but non-white posters are not allowed to push back on this blatant disingenuousness because it would make us neo-Nazis.

Why don’t you all go gush over Bernie’s mittens some more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EZujn_aU0

xxpost lol, was gonna say

First they came for the sotos

I'd say “virtue signaling” is often used by reactionary trolls as a stick to beat people espousing progressive ideas. but to say it has no referent at all in reality shows a rather narrow experience of human beings.