US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

It boggles my mind that there’s a 60 vote threshold to defeat a filibuster rather than a 40 vote threshold to maintain one

and not only that, but the GOP is demonstrably lazy and brittle. they don't want to stay in DC and talk all night. all they'll do is "accidentally" say something that offends 1/3 of the world. it's better to go home and golf. after a month and a half of talking filibusters they'd just say fuck it to the whole idea

That was one of the reforms Manchin nixed IIRC

wouldn't happen til 2024 anyway

I know I know bold of me to assume we’re even allowed to vote in 40 years

I know I know bold of me to assume we’re even allowed to vote in 40 years

Bold of you to think this not scrimulation

We have the Senate, the House and the Presidency.

Stop negotiating with a losing insurrectionist party who are trying to sabotage our democracy, pass the infrastructure package through reconciliation and abolish the filibuster.

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 28, 2021

sorry that’s just not Who We Are

can you imagine being the dipshit on Manchin’s staff who has to type this garbage out. what’s your life look like bud

Choosing to put politics and political elections above the health of our Democracy is unconscionable. And the betrayal of the oath we each take is something they will have to live with. My statement on the January 6th Commission vote: pic.twitter.com/tlPme9LMIo

— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) May 28, 2021

Putting politics above the country, interesting

what exactly has he done for the health of the democracy?

he held the line! when push came to shove, he held the line!!

?!!? fuckin dipshit manchin, asshole senator

A new poll released by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core shows that these dangerous and conspiratorial beliefs are not confined to the country’s dank backwaters.

Fully 20 percent of more than 5,500 adults questioned in all 50 states — and 28 percent of Republicans among them — said they agreed with the statement that “there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.”

Even more worrisome were the 15 percent overall — and, again, 28 percent of Republicans — who were of the opinion that because “things have gotten so off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”

28% of Republicans are ready for the civil war/apocalypse, whatever it ends up being called.

74 million votes for trump. 28% of that is 21 million people.

People will just say whatever on a phone survey

the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core

that is a interesting set of words to string together and may have some deeper meaning than what it appears to say.

28% SAY they're ready for civil warpocalypse. 72% say they can dunk on LeBron.

People will just say whatever on a phone survey

And I'd particularly since they saw the hammer come down on the 1/6 douchenozzles and realized that, oh shit, there might actually be unpleasant consequences that follow from behaving like a lawless knob.

I'd

i have to admit, that was on the response i expected from ilx

i've over here, postin, lookin

that was not, rather, heh

postin

That number and the 52% of Republicans don’t think Biden is President sound scary but I wonder how far out of the historical norm they are. The threat of reactionary political violence is more American than apple pie. Conservatives have considered every Democratic win since JFK stolen.

It doesn't cost a thing to talk tuff. Like my laptop isn't working right, say, and I just start bellowing YOU'D BETTER START WORKING RIGHT NOW OR I'M GONNA SMASH YOU INTO POWDER, LITTLE MAN! But I'm not gonna actually do that because I need a working laptop so I just swallow my frustration and impotently grumble. Even though there are way too many unhinged wingnuts, the majority of huff 'n' puff wannabe insurrectionists are just going to impotently grumble and then go watch a Last Man Standing marathon.

I'm on the scuzball GOP house guys mail list around here and I got pissed off when I got some email for Memorial day of him supposedly honoring all these vets service. I emailed him and told him that he definitely did not honor one vet - Brian Sicknick.

I don't know what the fuck happened to Mitch McConnell to so embitter him, but he is just a parasite Renfeld to some of the worst bloodsucking vampires on the face of humanity. The man's legacy is pretty much legalizing bribery. The man is a walking cancer. No point emailing him about anything. Only time my family ever emailed this choad was my dad's Medicare would not pay for him to go for a year to a dialysis at a new center about 2 miles from our house and he had to go to one 18 miles away, even though they were owned by the same fucking company. Of course that was the one winter we got 2 blizzards... "Not my job was his reply...no shit."

As for Rand Paul, there is not enough room in his mirror for anyone but himself and swindling these dolts is a family business.

I thought I heard that investigation into the turtle couple that had been quash3d last year had reappeared a couple of months back. Did it go anywhere?
I mean is there any use for optimism that he might get a more personal scandal wash him away.
Thought Chao had a few other things coming to light that were also being looked into
Turtle must have a powerful shell.
Would be so good to get him gone. If we all wished hard enough couldn't he get some majorly fitting ailment.

I don’t see this Gosar gem itt yet, so:

They took her life. They could not take her pride. #onemoreinthenameoflove https://t.co/i4u5HTNzSi

— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) May 28, 2021

#wednesdaybloodywednesday more like

Jesus

Where the Tweets Have No Shame

bitter lol

Proud of Texas House Dems.

They fought voter suppression with everything they had & kept the hope of free & fair elections alive for another day.

There will be a special session with another voter suppression bill. But they bought Texas some time.

Let’s make the most of it. https://t.co/nFbQ7LTCuL

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) May 31, 2021

are there any actual ways for them to stop this?

After it is passed, the US Supreme Court (lol, yeah right).

isn't having a revolution every 100 years or so healthy for electoral systems or something.
Probably even more frequently.
Gosh can't wait for a return to American leadership after the last fiasco, or not as the case may be.

Can everybody who has to deal with US interference point to the US and what a mess it is for the next while. & of course how its all their fault anyway.

Meanwhile if you're wondering what Rev. Moon Jr. is up to.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dp8j/gun-church-that-worships-with-ar-15s-bought-a-40-acre-compound-in-texas-for-its-patriots

Missed this from the weekend, but a buncha folks on Twitter had fun spamming Crenshaw & Cotton's "Whistleblow The Woke" snitch site.

Good evening Dan Crenshaw. My name is Brady Bulldozer (pseudonym) and I am in SEAL Team 6. Last night, when Biden ordered our unit to infiltrate and eliminate Kim Jong-un, he demanded that we first list our pronouns. That’s when I knew the wokes had won. https://t.co/iFQQSricbL

— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) May 29, 2021