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

Oh and we mustn't forget Franco:

https://www.miradorarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-Franco.jpg

maybe we really will go down to a few posts a day. you love to see it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Bigpink.jpg
#OneThread

When I woke up today the world seemed less filled with immanent threats to my physical and mental well-being than it has since late August. I realize that the scale that is graphed against has been unnervingly out of whack lately. It's not like today's reality is all sunshine and puppies. But my sense of threat reduction is real enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v_4SJ4lZxk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z3xHMNHQUs

man, Fauci looks euphoric at this press conference.

https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/7034/7034247_so.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/tQ1mqX2.png

Only trust them as far as you can throw them, but this is what normal looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr6S0rZhDWk

You constantly hear about how much contempt the public has for the media, but keeping them on your side--or at least not hostile--makes life much simpler.

Lol it’s so good how her cadence just sounds like she’s Johnny Knoxville about to ride a lunch tray off of a water slide https://t.co/Ll7r8Tk8ho

— so, ,uh, (@Hegelbon) January 21, 2021

i hate her so much

"we'll see how this goes... nowhere"

assuming they get referred to House Judiciary Committee, this means Obama is still the only post-Carter prez to not have any articles referred against him lol

it goes to the committee...and dies.

AS should she

I have a mild curiosity who has co-sponsored it, but not enough to make any effort to find out.

bush's paintings have more pathos in em because they are driven, maybe unconsciously, by guilt

― treeship., Thursday, 21 January 2021 bookmarkflaglink

but churchill's landscapes were fine, idk. sterile and empty but i'd rather have that on my wall than a childish portrait of putin.

― treeship., Thursday, 21 January 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Gonna print and frame these.

LOL Trump Jr. pretending he's never watched Fox News: Imagine how much easier it is to run as a Democrat when you have a multi billion dollar main stream media complex willing to lie and run cover for you at all times! Our media is broken.

Gonna print and frame these.

I don't know, I kinda think you should paint your own versions before you frame 'em.

I'm hearing Alec Guinness saying "sterile and empty."

richard prince style

would alec guinness say it like "ster-eye-ull"?

Lol that Johnny Knoxville comparison is so otm, that even looks and sounds like an old Jackass intro

"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Articles of Impeachment"

*cut to guy getting hit in the balls by a garbage bag filled with moldy peaches*

would alec guinness say it like "ster-eye-ull"?

― treeship.,

exactly

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXpost: re Biden xpost holding off on immigration 'til builds up momentum etc.---not gonna do that:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-immigration-plan/2021/01/18/f0526824-59a8-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html

Still really amazed this is allowed

House Republican Lauren Boebert now sets off the metal detector and refuses to comply with US Capitol Police, waking into the chamber. USCP not making a big deal but $5,000 fine comes out of member’s pay.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) January 21, 2021

Second offense is $10,000.

She'll be running a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs of her Freedom! any day now.

can we idk have the police actually not let them in?

She'll be running a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs of her Freedom! Grandstanding! any day now.

definitely

Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur

@LeaderMcConnell
proposes a MID-FEBRUARY start to impeachment trial.

His pre-trial pitch: House reads articles on 1/28. Trump’s answer and pre-trial brief due 2/4. Then Trump gets a week to submit his pre-trial brief (2/11). House gets two days to submit rebuttal brief (2/13).

https://t.co/fI9CdkNLfT pic.twitter.com/125SJ14rES

— croatianx tony (@AnthonyRescan) January 21, 2021

I'm running down the road, trying to loosen my load, I've got seven senate Democrats on my mind.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/senate-democrats-ethics-complaint-cruz-hawley/index.html

oh wow ethics complaints might actually result in action again

Boebert wishes she was as witty and cutting as AOC, but she’s totally ‘Girl you wish you never started a conversation with at a party.’

More like "Girl you wish you never started a conversation with at the grand old party", amirite?

I'm not savvy enough to know how this would play out in the long term, but the logic feels compelling to me

Get rid of the filibuster and pass everything: healthcare, childcare, family leave, minimum wage, etc. Pass it all. Make Republicans have to try to take those things away from people instead of letting Republicans stop those things from ever happening. You’ll win every time.

— Jon Zal (@OfficialJonZal) January 21, 2021

the courts would take them away from people

why not try and see if the courts bother

they don't have 50 votes to get rid of the filibuster

Dream logic.

Sounds like McConnell is already starting to be obstructive so is the 2nd Impeachment going to be a farce too. apart from most of the things that Biden is trying to do at the start of his incumbency and the mess that was left by the outgoing mess.

Is taht utterly predictable or what.

Damn, felt optimistic for all of 2 days and hoping that this can be allowed to not just be a nominal good start by the Dems.

Opening arguments the law/politics podcast works through the actions of Biden's new incumbency on its first day
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Ng6iAlrpUhNVSdd5nWwpG?si=0gQmM6_4RwaCC5H_EkFbpA

podcast also available on other platforms but that's the one I use.

I don't understand how you listen to so many podcasts! I don't even listen the ones I've been on lol.

Long thread, by a reporter, about a couple of things in Buttigieg's mayoral background, only a few of which I'd read before:

Pete Buttigieg testifies today on his nomination to run the Dept. of Transportation.

I spent almost a year covering Buttigieg. He refused to speak with me, so I’m going to thread some of the things senators could ask him about today.

— Jonathan Larsen (@jtlarsen) January 21, 2021

Wait, you're telling us a clear CIA plant with no ethical sense is also a racist asshole?

(sorry, my absolute loathing of Mayo Pete has been ratcheted up again now that he's back on these scene. What an absolute turd of a human he is)