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

That NYT article reminded me of this anecdote (as recounted in Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk):

On his visits to the White House soon after the election, Jared Kushner expressed surprise that so much of its staff seemed to be leaving. “It was like he thought it was a corporate acquisition or something,” says an Obama White House staffer. “He thought everyone just stayed.”

The thing is, if I brought a scythe, I'd try to scare him into retiring. He's stared down Nino and Alito, so who the fuck knows the limits of his selfishness.

omg that Kushner quote

It’s like he’d never read or thought much about how federal politics work.

(Which he probably hadn’t.)

I just finished reading 'Golden Gulag' and yeah, that private prisons EO is fine but doesn't actually accomplish much.

It’s like he’d never read or thought much about how federal politics work.

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, January 27, 2021 7:04 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

(Which he probably hadn’t.)

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings)

Breyer?

Hahaha

Nah the Kush

btw I do think Breyer will retire this year, just not now. There's too much other shit going on.

Joe Biden had won it,
The Democrats had done it,
And Donald read the comics all the while.
Covid babies being born,
Mitch McConnell we would scorn,
So down on the beltway,
SCOTUS went on trial.

sometimes i wonder what a guy like Kushner would end up doing if he were not born into wealth & privilege and "raised" by unscrupulous jackals

middle school principle, relentlessly mocked by the teachers every bit as much as the kids?
TPS report guy at Initrode?

marjorie taylor greene makes complete sense when you realize she doesn’t even live in the rural district she represents. she lives in a wealthy north atlanta suburb and she used to come into the whole foods i worked at to yell at my friend for cutting her ham too thin

— Mohammad (@MargBarAmerica) January 27, 2021

One of Obama's first EOs was to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay... look how that worked out.

Why we still have a base on Cuba is beyond me... it's barely 90 miles from Florida, we're no longer at war with Spain.. let it go.

have you lived in Miami

No.. forgot about that

Xpost MTG is every moderator on local Re-Open Our Schools Facebook Groups

xpost I know a lot of Cubans actually work on the base, so they probably wouldn't mind if it stayed.

i knew MTG was a wealthy real estate lady. impressive how much better she connects with the crazy than Loeffler. i suppose it helps if you really Believe.

AOC's on Chris Hayes' show now unilaterally praising the Biden EOs on climate push.

Hmph, how dare she, time to cancel AOC

huh funny all the assholes that said AOC should know her place and stfu, she's had pretty non-negligible effect on the party platform as a whole (not just her, obv, the squad, Bernie, etc).

“I’m feeling extraordinarily encouraged,” says @AOC discussing Biden’s executive orders on climate. pic.twitter.com/e41hk8Qe15

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) January 28, 2021

huh funny all the assholes that said AOC should know her place and stfu, she's had pretty non-negligible effect on the party platform as a whole (not just her, obv, the squad, Bernie, etc).

I disagree with this. The party platform has absolutely shifted to the left, in no small part because of Democrats like Sanders, Warren, and the Squad.

I think you will find upon rereading that you do agree with that.

Lol you are correct, I blame the wine

SCOOP: Sen. Dianne Feinstein fails to disclose husband's stock purchase, says she's willing to pay a fine https://t.co/REpoFJomGk via @businessinsider

— Kimberly Leonard (@leonardkl) January 27, 2021

AOC's on Chris Hayes' show now unilaterally praising

omg she's broken from the party to praise Biden

xpost "leading by example"

fined by fiat

xp why would jared kushner have gone into education and become a principal?

that is one of the weirdest things i've read on ilx.

when AOC's lost sic

yeah idk I guess he sort of reminded me of a middle school principle I had once

and not a cool hero educator by any stretch

xpost
so yeah probably more of the TPS report guy.

I just caught up today with the story of that crazy Q congresswoman being named to the Education and Labor committee (checked back and it was discussed here a week ago). That's so awful. All those Parkland parents should ask for a hearing or something where they can confront her.

less truth and reconciliation, more truth and hardsonning

“There are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence. No consequences for racism. No consequences for misogyny. No consequences for insurrection. And no consequences means that they condone it. It means that that silence is acceptance," says @AOC. pic.twitter.com/4jkKfb718K

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) January 28, 2021

I've heard a few people over teh last couple of days saying taht the new administration's security set up hasn't come into being yet so the actual effect of things can't have been fully felt. GOP are scum which is pretty much a given by now isn't it?
Hopefully there will be wider cosnequences.

Have heard taht a possible overlooking of th enon ringleaders in teh insurrection has been changed. Sounded like FBI etc were going to let those people not 'actively involved' in the insurrection weren't going to be prosecuted which sounds a bit loopy since those people were involved in being inside the Capoitl in an armed mob which should be bad enough in itself and would have been unthinkable under most circumstances. Heard people talking about their disappointment in that yesterday morning which may have dated from at least teh night before but it seemed that thought had evolved since then and prosecution would be done. Does seem like i might have been right about FBI etc having sympathy with the right wing which is outrageous or at least should be.

Not sure if this si going to be up after teh end fo the live transmission but this si a talk bewtween Angela Davius and Palestinian Profession Ilan pappe.
It starts with Davis talking about the events of January 6th
Talk with US activist Angela Davus and Palestinian professor Ilan Pappe tht is just starting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKVY-yRE78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKVY-yRE78

Not sure if you can copy URL from those. Or you can look up the 2 names. Can't get the link to work anyway

link is fine for me

Their discussion of the zero sum game approach to politics reminds me that yesterday I got lost in comment thread before realizing that I had just read a fox news article and the main take in there seemed to be coalescing around the idea that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats allowed the riot to happen by ordering the Capital Police to stand down. The suicide was obviously because a Capital Police officer "knew too much". What Dems stood to gain by risking their lives and having one of those officers murdered during the last week that Trump was in office was never fully explained, but they all seemed to understand it. I'm guessing that they saw it as a 5d chess gambit - that Dems planned to take advantage of angry Trump supporters by letting them into the Capital after Trump's speech, which allowed them to call it an insurrection and draft articles of impeachment so they could prevent him from running again. But now the Republicans have recognized all of this for the charade it was and are outsmarting the the Dems by voting against convicting Trump. It isn't some Q crazy secret history or hidden voter fraud that makes Biden illegitimate, it's just how they see politics as usual -everything that happens must come down to the battle between us and them and is driven by projection that the other side must be approaching it the same way, there is no such thing as win-win or even compromise from this perspective.

In non-vaccine news, our Joe Biden approval tracker is up! So far he's at 54% approve and 35% disapprove.https://t.co/n2XzvOgs0J pic.twitter.com/v4Z8sJ6wbG

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 28, 2021

The 35% who disapprove are not disapproving his actions, but his existence.

Polls are fake! if you add the approve and the disapprove you get 89.. may i remind you that 8+9=17, and the 17th letter is... Q

Lol Trump is gonna be mad that Biden's numbers are better'n his were.

Was gonna say, it's interesting he has the lowest net approval of any new president they chart, excepting Asshole.

In a polarized era, that's the best we can expect

seems like a similar approval rating to dubya in the beginning, but yeah a much higher disapproval. nobody gives anyone a chance anymore