US Politics June 2021 - "Where we're going, we don't NEED bipartisanship"

Brad freakin Parscale. wonder what that guy is up to

helping Caitlyn Jenner's floundering campaign for Governor of CA

lol his lawsuit is that Dominion and Smartmatic legally filed suit and won and that's not cool?

"i want to sue these companies for suing me because it sucked for me"

> I hear they have thousands and thousands of boats parading in Jupiter

There has NEVER been a boat parade for Joe Biden!

would you even know, though? maybe Joe is just humble about his boat parades.

good morning!

Trump has continued posting multiple blogtweets per day to his press releases webpage. Imagine the savings!

Or the expense, whichever.

this fuckin chucklefuck

Manchin: “I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act. Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.” https://t.co/P1N79VG1Wa

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 6, 2021

“partisan legislation to curtail voting rights and partisan legislation to expand voting rights are actually the same thing because they’re both partisan”

It still amazes me the Democrats didn’t take him to the broom closet Sopranos-style and tell him to get the fuck in line or else on Inauguration Day.

count me among the folks that think Manchin, undoubtedly a huge pos, is running cover for probably some 10-15 other Dems who agree w him 100%

I heard taht idea expressed on one of the podcasts I was listening to yesterday. Major shame, could really do with the world progressing when its just come out of the shadow of regression. But, like they're politicians and while there's still money in it what do you expect.
Do wonder if there is any hope for things to be cleaned.
Drain the swamp would be a nice phrase to have some actuality to it, but it was born with stigma attached , like.

ppl will say this is doomerism, but it’s literally going to happen

GOP takes the House in 2022, refuses to certify Democratic win in 2024 https://t.co/ZLuwk62xON

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 6, 2021

oh no worries I believe it!

Will the GOP House impeach Biden in 2023 or drag it out closer to November 2024?

couldn't you just get together and have a revolution now rather than waiting til later.
Or is picking who's going to be first up against the wall too competitive at the moment?

I tend to think this is more relevant

During our dive on the filibuster, a Sen D aide told me: "You think all Dems are completely on board w S1 except for Manchin? F*ck no. But they don't want Stacey Abrams knocking on their door so they stay quiet." Still, Manchin is lone Dem against it. https://t.co/KxKodJm2NI https://t.co/S2YpU6hu45

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) June 6, 2021

I’m left wondering if the The Adults just don’t believe that the GOP will do these things? or just not care?

Or are they secretly rooting for it bc hey, why govern (hard!) when you can point to the crazies on the other side and pluck the chickens

and of course Beltway reporters love their access too much to divulge the name of these brave senators

I’m left wondering if the The Adults just don’t believe that the GOP will do these things? or just not care?

Or are they secretly rooting for it bc hey, why govern (hard!) when you can point to the crazies on the other side and pluck the chickens

i do want to point out that this whole scenario - Trump claiming he won while a bunch of his supporters believe he won, and he just goes on, acting like he is the actual president (or soon to be "reinstated") - is one that was repeatedly postulated here (and by me) in a kind of humorous/half-serious way, but still, as a possible scenario that would lead to some sort of peace or something. Like, "just let him think he's president and issue some executive orders at maralago for better shrimp tacos or whatever!" and...he's doing that...and yet...there's no peace and in fact it seems like another flashpoint is approaching

It's also possible Manchin will support a one-shot filibuster nuke for the sake of the voting rights bill he supports.

i haven't had my coffee...didn't manchin just say he doesn't support the bill because he's against the filibuster?

If 10 Republicans don’t sign on to his bill he’ll just go “garsh I tried oh well.” That was obvious from the start.

At least the upside of 2024’s constitutional crisis will be that we might finally wrap up this whole America situation.

The Biden-affiliated militias will need their own Punisher skull symbol.

“I’m not ready to destroy our government,” Manchin said last month. “I think they will come together, you have to have faith that there’s 10 good people.”

patriot news hourly: BREAKING: Socialist Manchin implies that there are at least 40 evil Republican senators; not "good people"

Manchin will write another voting rights bill that lets Mitch McConnell personally draw the maps for all 435 House districts in order to forge bipartisan compromise.

Just tried to get into a Ron Desantis press event in Miami and they literally had military personnel with FL Department of Law Enforcement documents with my photo and information waiting to stop me. This how terrified Ron Desantis is of criticism. pic.twitter.com/KDBoMld484

— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) June 7, 2021

Agitators are indispensable to washing machines' ability to clean dirty laundry. No wonder Desantis want nothing to do with them.

Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.

Gaetz contacted Newsmax early this year, a source at the outlet said. That was around the time that news broke Gaetz was the subject of a federal investigation into possible sex trafficking of a minor.

Investigators are seeking to determine whether Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old, according to news reports and a law enforcement source who spoke with Reuters. He has not been charged with any crimes and has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

Spokespeople for Gaetz, a vocal Trump supporter, had no immediate comment about any Newsmax job rejection.

"Newsmax has had no plans to hire Rep. Gaetz," said Brian Peterson, a spokesperson for the website.

A source familiar with Newsmax's policies said: "Earlier this year, (Gaetz) reached out and said he might leave Congress early and was interested in TV work."

i would've thought hiring gaetz would be a good formula for maximum news. false advertising, newsmax.

I’m left wondering if the The Adults just don’t believe that the GOP will do these things? or just not care?

Or are they secretly rooting for it bc hey, why govern (hard!) when you can point to the crazies on the other side and pluck the chickens

Joke’ll be on them when Qcongress executes them all at Gitmo.

― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, June 6, 2021 5:44 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm kind of blown away by by how opaque this seems to be for so many people. this is a crucial role democrats play for the interests of power, and it's a great situation for them to be in. they have excellent scapegoats and the roles are locked in. they're only going to be rewarded for it when republicans take office. i mean it will look like they lost but materially they won't have lost anything. the people executed will be poor, maybe tilted more toward one definition of "degenerate" over another.

its true and its good to harp on the Dems for this but ultimately America was just built to be taken over by a hostile minority party against the "big tent" moderates. give Manchin all the shit you want, dude certainly deserves it, but he comes from a heavily conservative state, one which any other Democrat would never win, the problem isn't necessarily him it's that this country gives all the power to those who represent the least amount of people and the GOP has gamed the system so that everything but judges & tax cuts would require 60 votes

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i'm honestly stunned that newsmax turned him down

My hope is that means there are enough rumblings about the validity of his investigation that he's even untouchable for them...

maybe we can manchin coked up and confident and then sell him on this crazy idea: he becomes the key person to help abolish the filibuster, he gets all the infrastructure shit he wants for WV, and in 4 years he gets to retire from the senate at age 76 to enjoy his immense wealth, and, uh, his family i guess

xxxpost It also reflects that the vast majority of Americans I suspect are, through dint of disposition or indoctrination, literally conservative, even the ones who are not Conservative. It's tied into the country's endemic contrarianism.

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i didn't even look up manchin to make sure that he's fabulously wealthy. he just is. i know he is. they all are, except for like 3

I have to remind myself Manchin voted to impeach Trump (twice!) and voted against confirming Barrett.

maybe we can get Manchin eaten by a shark and the resultant flesh used to make a new Manchin that we can program

people turn that noses up at uploading themselves into VR and flying like a bird for the rest of their conscious existence, but 1) it's not here, and 2) birds get to shit on everything

It also reflects that the vast majority of Americans I suspect are, through dint of disposition or indoctrination, literally conservative fucking idiots... It's tied into the country's endemic contrarianism.

The claim that no one but Manchin could win in WV is somewhat specious. It’s been less of a one party state than a lot of the country and even in the depths of Jim Crow liberal populists managed to win seats in the south.

Centrists like Clinton and Biden eat shit - Manchin’s schtick is more “populist” than “centrist,” which is the eternal argument for trying to run progressive populists in red states instead of troops and former CIA wet team guys who get slaughtered.

While I won't dispute that our country is overpopulated by idiots, I do think that gives cover to how awful a lot of these people are. The most strident and vocal conservatives I've encountered in my life are rarely stupid, just incredibly selfish. They don't give one shit about anyone else and want to empower any one who ensures them that they can keep every penny they have and that those pennies will never get shared with the less deserving.

But every time that’s an option they circle the wagon for the most conservative candidate they can find because they can avoid governing.

I do think that gives cover to how awful a lot of these people are. The most strident and vocal conservatives I've encountered in my life are rarely stupid, just incredibly selfish.

I consider emotional intelligence here, too. Anyone who can't see beyond themselves in such a way is a fucking idiot.

The temerity of some of these people to call themselves Christians is the most laughable part of the whole thing.

the really laughable part is that their vote counts just as much as yours or mine (more, probably)