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

Haha https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/biden-executive-orders-trump.html

One former senior Trump aide, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear or retaliation, agreed. “Very little of what Trump did was done to ensure permanence. At the pace Biden is moving, everything Trump did will be gone by the time the sun rises on Monday — except his judicial appointments.”

While Mr. Trump lorded over Twitter, important lessons for him lurked, unwatched, on YouTube.

In a remarkable interview 10 days before his death in 1973, Lyndon B. Johnson, the most skilled legislator-president in the country’s recent history, explained why he had resisted the temptation to ram through landmark civil rights reforms by using executive orders.

didn't Trump already have aides leaking negative shit to the press like, in Week 1?

another enjoyable diff with Biden admin (or literally every other admin)

Punster the thread title comment about cutesy has more to do with the flurry of puns that were sparked when it was announced this month had a part 2 coming. Which is a precedent caused by the events of Jan 6th causing much debate when there was also going to be an inauguration and new incumbency later. So this would be a very full thread if kept as 1 part.

So weird to me that politicians have merch. Not campaign merch, just merch-merch.

They literally only hold their jobs as a result of regularly scheduled popularity contests.

It's ok to pirate their podcasts, they make all their money off merch and touring

Blimey, this thread having a day off?

May need to get used to things like taht, head of state not going out of his way to embarass himself several timesa day and the ex having no media access.
May have to go cold turkey on teh trepidation of the other boot dropping for a while. YOu could always read back through the monthly threqads for the last 4 years if you are too addicted.,

On the other hand McConnell is going to be a pain wherever he can and Biden is goingto be struggling with trying to do all the good he can but not having a significant majority.

Ha funny that, didn't think the speed of additions to the thread was going to tail off after about the 20th since nothing untoward regularly happening. So the idea that there would be bound to be need for a 2nd or 3rd thread for teh month may have been based on a habit taht was just breaking.

The monthly thread may have to be ditched at this rate :-O

Good

I noted it last night and was...quite surprised and pleased

Blimey, this thread having a day off?

― Mark G, Sunday, January 24, 2021

I loved it!

i have like 3 different depressing news updates i could post, and one of them involves trump

but in the year of extra-magical thinking, 2021 - no i don't, all the news is good

There's a difference between depressing and urgent. There was plenty of depressing political news before Trump, and will be plenty after. But a lot fewer things that will prompt the "JFC DID U SEE THIS LATEST ASSAULT ON ALL THINGS DECENT" reactions that have fueled these threads for the past 4 years. Or here's hoping anyway.

oh, for sure. the things i want to post about today are just expected things - mcconnell is doing his best to make sure as many people die of covid as possible and biden takes the blame; trump is trying to start the Patriot party, and smart people in portland thought burning a biden flag (lol?) on inauguration day would be a good thing. but yeah, none of that compares to what happened a couple weeks ago - trump trying to overthrow the election in yet ANOTHER way by trying to get the acting attorney general thrown out and then installing a stooge to overturn the Georgia results (via...magic?)...anyway, holy shit. the trump years chewed me up and spit me out. i'm a whiny piece of half-solidified blood, hardened bloodsnot after a violent sneeze. the silence of this thread is comforting in some ways

So, no need for a January part two thread, and Feb will most likely be...... quiet

This is the January, part two thread.

It does all feel pretty weird. The silence of the Trump. I do not miss him even a tiny little bit, but it's just like some asshole with a jackhammer has been right outside the window for the past four years, except the jackhammer was hate speech and crazy talk, and now it's just ... gone. Or at least muted to an extent you have to strain to hear it. Takes some adjusting to.

thank god twitter booted him

Both amazing and I guess predictable what a difference that made.

yep

also, fuck those dumbasses in Portland, smdh

🙄

there was a good roasting response on twitter but I've already given it more attention than it deserves

which assholes in portland are these?

some dumb anarchists basically re-enacting the argument we had here on the 20th

Given it's Portland, I guess it could be any number of assholes. Meanwhile:

The Bidens stop at Call Your Mother, the bagel shop in Georgetown, en route back to the White House -- already a big change. Trying to remember but can't recall Trump ever stopping anywhere in DC other than his own hotel.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 24, 2021

I'm not sure I understand why Donnie didn't just create his own alt-website in order to directly funnel his parasitic filth into his hosts' willing brains.

Trump is getting warm welcome from the skies near Mar-a-lago today pic.twitter.com/S6uUFx3t30

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) January 24, 2021

really looking forward to the impending eviction from M-A-L:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-neighbors

nah Portland protestors otm

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/protests-portland-seattle-biden.html

anyway, i'm in portland for work. first time I've left my house for my job since covid hit and i'm *extremely* unhappy about it.
we're staying downtown and it's pretty much a boarded up ghost town compared to when i was here last. if things are popping off around our office & hotel it can't be much, or it's happening pretty late at night.

on that NYT headline:

Change in Headline pic.twitter.com/35VI67L5JP

— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) January 23, 2021

and here's the washpost version:

https://i.imgur.com/kbGl20N.png

I'm not sure I understand why Donnie didn't just create his own alt-website in order to directly funnel his parasitic filth into his hosts' willing brains.

He knows the best people:

I have a son. He’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it’s hardly do-able. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing, but that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester and certainly cyber is one of them.

What has Biden done since inauguration that they are protesting?

existing

He has continued to be Joe Biden.

can't speak for everyone but for me probably not saying "Damn i'm sorry that was really stupid of me to say i'd veto M4A if it came across my desk"

The systemic racism and brutality of the police continues, as evidenced by feds teargassing people protesting against it in Portland, and a cop in Tacoma accelerating an SUV through a crowd and running over / hospitalising one bystander last night. Biden repeatedly campaigned on treating brutality by increasing funding to police, and training them to shoot protestors. As the interviewees in the article say, continuing to protest continues to keep attention on the issues in a way which ceasing protests does not.

and this is more Dem party in general rather than Biden specifically, but the little tapdance about "vote for us and $2k is yours" to "hahah sike we were already including the 6 hundo you fucking rubes and the GOP hasn't even begun negotiating" probably didn't win them any friends

xp agree w/all of that and also think waiting a week would have been a better choice

yeah, i think those are valid reasons to protest, i don't know if the timing was productive and worry it gives the republicans space to "both sides" jan 6, which is bullshit but

As one person held a lighter below a Biden-for-president flag, another chanted a phrase often seen on conservative message boards: “Not my president.”

republicans are going to respond to all left protest exactly the same regardless of when it happens or what happens, though

“Not my president.”

Should've been "not any president".

Optics, people!

I'm every President

Fillmore's in mmmeeeeeee

As one person held a lighter below a Biden-for-president flag, another chanted a phrase often seen on conservative message boards: “Not my president.”

Incredibly stupid framing here, heard this at every Bush era protest.

Protesters were seen drinking water, as was common at many STOP THE STEAL events. Clear liquids are also fond with RUSSIANS.

popular with RUSSIANS, damn it