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

I was listening to a podcast this afternoon saying that some of teh pardons t issued were way too specific and this open to creating a lot of trouble for those he'd granted them to . Manafort having confessed to a few crimes he wasn't convicted of and him being pardoned for those crimes he was convicted of was one thing the presenter directly mentioned and something very similar with Stone.
Would be really great if it was that easy all around. Fingers crossed.

JUst really hoping that they are all just about to get a further comeuppance.
Any chance of that scandal from a couple of years ago concerning Chao and McConnell reappearing now that people are trying to make the idea of law mean something again.
& Kavanagh had a scandal I was hearing was likely to get investigated if the election went the right way I thgought.

anybody else about to face precarity over past lack of ethics.

Finally, he strikes me as the sort of person who would order the most expensive glass of pinot noir at a Cheesecake Factory.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 January 2021 17:49 (one hour ago) link

The heart wants what it wants. I don’t see a reason to shame him for this.

Hard to believe the US Politics thread went straight from high anxiety in the aftermath of an active insurrection to a mellow love-in. But it's nice to see, all the same.

I am very angry about the image of Buttigieg boning a glass of wine you put into my head

love knows no countries, no bourdeaux

Resisting temptation to post a certain Titus Andromedon video.

Tbh, I don't think PB would order Pinot Noir. He's more of a Sauvignon Blanc type of guy.

and sleeve, I bet you're right— we probably know some of the same people...

finally, Aimless, re: my comment above about going to serve, my point was exactly what you surmised and summarized— to volunteer for a demonstrably evil war when one already has an undergraduate degree from Harvard is clearly a resume-building move for a future political career. It's nauseating.

splin-ter! splint-ter! splin-ter!

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is staring down just over a majority of House Republicans who support toppling the No. 3 House Republican from leadership after she voted to impeach now-former President Trump for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

According to reporting from Politico, at least 107 House Republicans have communicated to the leaders of that effort that they would support removing Cheney from leadership on a secret ballot, while others have threatened boycotting future conference meetings if she remains in power.

The intensifying campaign against Cheney, who called her decision to impeach Trump a “vote of conscience,” signals that Trump’s ideological stronghold on the party continues to echo in the chamber since his departure from office on Wednesday.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-week-the-trump-supporters-disappeared

(given my dumb remarks yesterday, i feel i should clarify that i don't think either party is going to splinter any time in the next 4 years

I won't be surprised if they ditch Liz Cheney, it will play well with the base voters of every Republican in a safely gerrymandered district. I don't think it's a good move in a realpolitik sense, because I think the time for craven Trump pandering being a long-term good thing for the party ended Jan. 6, and a lot of the smarter Republican reps know it. But that's exactly what gerrymandering does, it fosters insular short-term thinking.

i assume some people here hate bruenig but, that notwithstanding, this is good

Some very big improvements in the design were made very quickly. I will of course keep pushing for perfection on this (why settle for less). But I'm glad to see the responsiveness to the critiques. https://t.co/aB0Gi9kWBQ

— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) January 22, 2021

It’s an incredibly stupid, shortsighted and self-destructive idea which I support and encourage 100%.

The Cheney thing, not the Breunig thing

Senior Democratic lawmakers are moving to fulfill President Biden’s desire to expand the child tax credit by drafting legislation that would direct the Internal Revenue Service to send recurring monthly payments to tens of millions of American families, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share knowledge of the internal discussion.

Under one draft of the plan being discussed, the IRS would be tasked with depositing checks worth $300 every month per child younger than 6, as well as $250 every month per child aged 6 to 17. That would amount to $3,600 over the course of the year for young children, as well as $3,000 a year for older children, the officials said.

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The benefit could prove costly, increasing the federal deficit by as much as $120 billion for one year, according to estimates by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group. But it could curb child poverty in the U.S. by more than 50 percent, researchers at Columbia University have found.

hmm. tough choice.

Then people will just have more kids to get more money, right?

spencer cox, the new governor of utah, said biden's inaugural speech was "incredible" and then compared him to reagan, lol. i believe he also wants to fund public schools (gasp!). meanwhile billboards are encouraging commuters to spend money they don't have on skiing. probably following romney's lead, republicans in utah, the reddest of red states, seem unmoored. like.. you could just.. i don't know.. switch parties? christ. but they'd rather form a more purely eagle scout yahoo party than touch "socialism" with a ten foot pole. things aren't changing here so much as stuck in a republican era of the past. we need reeducation camps. $300 per kid per month would also do. - your dispatch from the boondocks

Liz Cheney, welcome to The Resistance

If the filibuster falls and the democrats go all out on an agenda that is weighted heavily toward economic justice, where the very popular center of US politics is, the republican party won't have to splinter in order to falter badly and be kicked to the curb. If the democrats permit the republicans to keep politics muddied, slow and ineffective, the nation and the world are screwed for decades to come. It is time to push all the chips into the pot.

That's how I break it down.

now they make both bourbon and hand sanitizer, too, so there are options.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, January 22, 2021 1:41 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

how's the bourbon sanitizer

yardsign updates:

Kenosha County, Wisconsin. pic.twitter.com/dlr5YBaa86

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) January 22, 2021

god I would love to drive there and put up a "No problem! You're welcome!" sign right behind it

that's not a real haiku

me too, and that's why i envision dems losing every. fucking. chip. xp

Shame-staining is my kink tbrr

Can’t wait for the worst /r/childfree people in the world to whine “what about me?!!!!” on the proposed child payments.

as a child-free person, pay the fuckin' parents!

Cosign.

yerp

whole reason I stayed child free was so I wouldn't need as much money to live, lol

Doesn't that sign person know it's spelled Demonrats

I should be getting paid to not reproduce tbqh

r ya gonna hold the government hostage if not?

1/2 toward paying off debt, 1/2 toward malort and donkey sauce cocktails

I wouldn't know how xp

i know i'm just speaking for my weird little shithole but if utah people got 300 per kid per month for a few years, utah culture would start to change big-time for the better. these people are going to breed like rabbits anyway, you might as well give them an independent means so they don't have to rely on living in lockstep with the head fascists in order to survive imo. would be a good way to put a damper on mlm schemes.

how's the bourbon sanitizer

Beats Dry-anuary.

universally giving people money is a good way to loosen local tribal strangleholds / hierarchies of exploitation

I'm OK with parents getting the money provided they have to sign something saying they won't talk to me about their dumb weiner kids for one full year.

lmao hard agree

Re: that sign, I almost went up to Kenosha this week to buy beer, but then I was all ... nah, I don't want to deal with the weird vibes.

That sign, btw, looks like the awkward punchline to a Mad magazine fold-in.

About time

NEW: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announces a civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

— Andrew Blankstein (@anblanx) January 22, 2021

that's great news, hoping it goes somewhere

child benefit comes to the US?!

$120b would have accounted for... 1.83% of federal spending in 2020. a lot, but interest rates are zero and that money will go right back into the economy. it’s obviously worth it.

long-term it’ll be interesting to see how hard it is to reel all the way back in.

hopefully very hard and they keep giving us money

Okay well I don't want to, you know, approve of too many things, but it's a real pleasure thus far to watch Jen Psaki work.

they have to pass this shit first.
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feel like the most likely trajectory at this point is big promises squandered as democrats self-own / appease their true masters and media finds ways to soft-pedal / blame republicans until everyone's tired again in 6 months and big win for republicans in 2022, another loop in downward spiral completed