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

hysterically

There is saying in there somewhere

in light of his predecessor's lack of transparency re: Putin phone calls, seems like getting asked about same by a major news network wld be a softball for a civics lesson *and* Putin smackdown, nice to see libs getting all excited instead about "owning" FOX

eh fair point, but honestly after the last 2 decades (ramping way up in '08, and then turning it to eleventy and ripping off the knob when Trump waddled into the fray) I have no real issue with pols treating anyone from Fox with the appropriate derision, including - or perhaps even especially - their "hard-news" personalities.

that, too, wld seem to echo Trump behavior...I don't think witholding on nat sec issues from even the shittiest reporters because you don't like the way they cover you is a precedent worth recognizing

There’s a readout of the call made public. It’s not exactly Trumpian to give a non-answer to a question shouted out at the end of a press briefing like that.

Dems have won every statewide election in WI since Trump's election. they've been close but I feel like a good D candidate will probably win here, especially given what an unparalleled disaster RoJo has been

I'm usually overly optimistic when it comes to stuff like this but 2020 was looked upon as a horrible year by basically everyone and Trump & the Rs played no small part in that, if things are back to normal after 2 years of Dem rule I think that'll really boost their chances. not to mention every R Senator is gonna have to go on record as either betraying their party or their country and I can't see either being good for their electoral chances

― frogbs, Tuesday, January 26, 2021 11:08 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

what’s feingold up to?

― k3vin k., Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:45 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

President of fledgling liberal Federalist Society counterpart the American Constitution Society
https://www.acslaw.org/

I'd be shocked if he ran for statewide office again; he really pissed off Wisconsin Dems with what even his voters saw as a listless "this seat is rightfully mine, give it back mmkay" campaign against Johnson in 2016. He ran well behind Clinton here!

Really no different from when he had the same joke reply to the same guy when he asked him if he picked his running mate yet.

One low key hilarious thing about stuff like that is Joe yet again demonstrating he’s quicker and funnier than people who spent months saying he “doesn’t even know where he is” and “can barely speak” etc

well now i'm not going to get too excited that slappy joe's synapses can still randomly access a zinger

i just want Peter Doocy to get laughed at.

re: feingold, I guess I don't know a ton about wisconsin politics or why he'd be disliked by dems. I do remember him running behind clinton which stood out as biazrre to me at the time, but I never understood why that happened. surely he's a better pick than pretty much anyone else they've got

Surely there's a beloved Buck they could run (lol)

of course if he wrecks him with some decent 'your mom' jokes i'll reconsider

xpost

Feingold gave a speech where I work - I thought he was pretty good, idk how he ran behind Hillary

Love yourmom

And jokes

Ha ha xp

well now i'm not going to get too excited that slappy joe's synapses can still randomly access a zinger

yeah, it doesn't take much to shout ".......NO U" at the same guy repeatedly

that said, you do like to see it

Technically, Bernie's bill was 5 years (2019-24), the new bill is 4 years (2021-25), so it's only one year difference between when we get there.

seems like going into the midterms with your "$15 minimum wage" promise having resulted in a $15 minimum wage is a better position than going in with a $9.03 minimum wage and the new promise that you absolutely won't reach $15 before the next election btw

this all seems chill:

https://www.tiktok.com/@claudiamconway/video/6922092264554646789

into this

These are the people a President Sanders or Warren (or Inslee) would have appointed. https://t.co/kNDbnGoKtE

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) January 27, 2021

part of me reads this and things: this guy is nervous

Today, I made clear that if Democrats ever attack the key Senate rules, it would drain the consent and comity out of the institution. A scorched-earth Senate would hardly be able to function. It wouldn’t be a progressive’s dream. It would be a nightmare.

I guarantee it.

— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) January 26, 2021

Dumbass toothless bluff, only likely to work on the many Dem senators who are much dumber than McConnell

Senate would hardly be able to function.

Yup, Mitch. Under your wise guidance the Senate functioned like a dream. Wouldn't want to mess with that level of success.

Making the Senate hardly able to function is my job dammit!

tbf that is exactly what he says

surely this emoluments clause thing does need to be investigated to prevent it being abused again.
Can anything be done?
JUst hearing that it wasa procedural thing that was worded to combat abuse during the actual incumbency.
Cos otherwise like obvious major flaw in ability to prosecute overt crime.

Cult deprogramming is gonna be a process

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/01/26/hakeem-jeffries-family-threat-462920

News: Sen. Tom Carper introduces the Washington, D.C. Admission Act to make DC the 51st state.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 27, 2021

News: Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema protest.

Would be nice to see some sort of sign that Schumer has any plan whatsoever to navigate this shit. At this point, I assume it's reconciliation and nothing else.

.@mtgreenee, is this you harassing @davidhogg111 weeks after the Parkland shooting, that my daughter was killed in & he was in? Calling him a coward for ignoring your insanity. I will answer all of your questions in person. Get ready to record again.pic.twitter.com/aQjL74x7kh

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) January 27, 2021

Jfc, yes, I knew MTG was a terrible human being already, but I was not prepared for how angry that video would make me. An abhorrent human being.

Senate President Pro Tem Patrick Leahy will open today’s Senate session at 10:30; LIVE, C-SPAN2

— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) January 27, 2021

I hope this thread is correct

☀️ Punchbowl AM: The ghost of 2009

Dems controlled all of govt. it took them forever to pass obamacare bc they first waited for Rs to support. then they squirmed

They later regretted doing too little too late. unemployment went to 10%. they lost the majority

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 27, 2021

Nice

Thune, 60, said he’d make his announcement "at some point in the future.” Johnson, 65, said he didn't think he had to decide "for a while." Grassley, 87, said he would make his announcement in "several months." Shelby, 86, said, "I'll let you know." Murkowski says she’s running

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 27, 2021

Nice bag of euphemisms

re the jake sherman thread, i hope so too. i think we all do lol.

i keep wanting to call my senators but they're the worst gop trash

"I am running for the border first, and reelection second," said Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy.

this sounds like he's gonna pop into a Taco Bell

he would

it's truly insane that Chuck Grassley even thinks there needs to be an announcement of running for a SIX YEAR TERM at 87

can we put the Dairy Queen tweet on his tombstone as his epitaph

xpost Never underestimate the restorative powers of infant blood.

Isn't that a Dem thing?

Ugh no blood libels for anyone, please.

hard to believe it's a battle to sell the american public on getting the same level of healthcare afforded a shitheel like Richard Shelby. we are truly the most acquiescent creatures to ever walk on two legs

if Thune doesn't run (maybe even if he does) Noem is going to run for his seat and given how fucked up SD is, she will win, and the prospect of her in the Senate is much worse than Thune, who sucks, but doesn't suck as much as she does.

i suppose it's theoretically possible that a Dem could win that race but unlikely

As recently as 2005, all four Dakotas senators were Democrats. But yeah, hard to imagine going back to that any time soon.

what the hell happened there? is it oil/gas money?

that, FOX news, Obama, racism.

I was in SD last year and was in a restaurant with a TV and there was an opinion thing running where someone was talking about it being time to bring Kaepernick back and at least two tables of old white people next to me almost had fucking strokes, they started twitching, shaking their heads, "no, absolutely not, no way!" while eating their pancakes.

there's also been increasing suppression of Native voters.

Yep, https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/10/04/for-some-native-americans-no-home-address-might-mean-no-voting