Can We Try De-Exhuming McCarthy, US Politics July 2021

The hearing aid one is interesting. It seems like my grandfather had to go to an audiologist regularly to dial in his hearing aids to work correctly but maybe apps can do that these days?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/562480-trump-i-got-impeached-twice-i-became-worse

“He became a different man when the Democrats viciously stated that they wanted to impeach him. They went wild. We want to impeach him. We're gonna impeach Bill Barr. We're gonna impeach him. He became different. I understand that. I didn't become different. I got impeached twice. I became worse,” Trump said, garnering applause from the crowd.

“I became worse,” he emphasized.

Fucking hell. I hate how predictably the media jumped right back on breathlessly covering every loose turd that falls from his mouth hole. Stop covering this shit, for the love of everything.

xp we got him

yeah, the whole 1/6 event was basically a set-up to kill this one person, because....?

once again, like #benghazi, it just doesn't even fucking matter

fwiw i think cutting child poverty by half is Good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/us/politics/child-tax-credit-payments.html

(payments start this week)

one of my good friends is a single mother of 3 and this is literally saving her ass

But in West Monroe, a 90-minute drive away, Levi Sullivan, another low-income parent, described the program as wasteful and counterproductive. Mr. Sullivan, a pipeline worker, has been jobless for more than a year but argued the payments would increase the national debt and reward indolence.

“I’m a Christian believer — I rely on God more than I rely on the government,” he said.

With four children, Mr. Sullivan, who has gotten by on unemployment insurance, food stamps, and odd jobs, could collect $1,150 a month, but he is so skeptical of the program he went online to defer the payments and collect a lump sum next year. Otherwise, he fears that if he finds work he may have to pay the money back.

“Government assistance is a form of slavery,” he said. “Some people do need it, but then again, there’s some people that all they’re doing is living off the system.”

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how do you live with people like this

i try to avoid people like that at all costs if possible. trouble is, they're everywhere

if you dont' want your government assistance, my mother would love it right now

at my grandpa's funeral my dad said that welfare was worse than slavery, during the eulogy

this is a thing that white supremacists do

At my grandfather’s funeral last year my aunt told a super fun n cute anecdote during his eulogy about a trip to DC with him and asking if wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial to which he replied “why would I? We weren’t on the same side”.

This was weaved in with a bunch of flag waving treacle about his service in WW2. It’s like, do you fuckos even hear yourselves?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that the state's House Democrats who fled to DC to block an effort to pass a new voting law will be arrested "as soon as they come back." https://t.co/n2JWS8J8vW

— Axios (@axios) July 13, 2021

good luck with that, I'm sure it won't generate a mountain of bad press. Dude is laser focused on finding as many ways as possible to piss off a major portion of the state's population.

the wind hums: "alright alright alright...."

It will generate a ton of good press on OAN and Fox and owning the libs helps Republican primary voters forget about Abbott’s incompetence and corruption.

there's a significant and growing portion of us who are not Republican primary voters

you know that SSA Trump-appointee who likes to his freeze his cum and eat it like popsicles before bed all the time

But you’ll never vote for him so why does he give a shit if you’re mad? Democrats still aren’t really competitive in statewide races (see: 2020 Presidential and Senate results), Republican primary voters are the only people who can take away his job.

skeptical of the program he went online to defer the payments and collect a lump sum next year. Otherwise, he fears that if he finds work he may have to pay the money back.

he does have a point here, though I doubt if he's been on assistance this long in the year that would happen. But I'd rather this was not an advance payment of a credit and was just handed out gratis.

i was definitely of the thought process that it's a bullshit move to flee to deny a quorum/vote until Republicans did it and then threatened to shoot anybody who came to arrest em. now i say fuck it, give em their own medicine all the time.

I may be wrong, but after freezing out his entire state and then shrugging in response, people may be less receptive to images of tough guy Abbott slapping handcuffs on elected officials all in the name of expanded voter disenfranchisement. There's only so much goodwill left for this asshole to mine.

but after freezing out his entire state and then shrugging in response

That's why he needs to shoot two revolvers in the air like he's Yosemite Sam while arresting every Democrat in the lege.

The only people this hurts him with wouldn't vote for him anyway, the people this helps him with can be taken by Don Huffines because he's a bizness man like Trump.

Everything Abbott's done since the freeze is about making his base forget about the freeze. He was getting called a RINO by the harder core then, and has been overcompensating ever since.

He seems like he's lost antivaxx mom's tho, which is something.

Sicker Moms

Khanna is getting tired of the admin’s bullshit on Yemen.

Meeting with Salman w/out demanding end of blockade is not treating the Saudis as “pariahs” as Biden pledged. Yemen disaster continues. Lenderking is failing. Admin must change course fast or Congress will act. ⁦@BernieSanders⁩ ⁦@jaketapper⁩ https://t.co/QfrNo6FRoE

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) July 14, 2021

mostly good news about what's making the cut on the reconciliation bill

From the Terminal: SANDERS CONFIRMS PRO ACT INCLUDED IN SENATE BUDGET AGREEMENT

— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) July 14, 2021

*MANCHIN SAYS SUPPORTS IMMIGRATION REFORM IN THE BUDGET DEAL

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) July 14, 2021

unclear if medicare age eligibility age is going down. that would be a big deal electorally (people like getting healthcare).

manchin grumbling about climate stuff but unclear where that goes.

no one appears to be concerned by the price tag.

did you guys watch the nytimes documentary on jan 6? really well done.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/state-departments-federal-au-pair-oversight-plan-draws-critics?context=search&index=0

The Biden administration plans to advance its predecessor’s proposal to keep state and local worker protections from applying to foreign au pairs, angering labor advocates who doubt the Department of State—as overseer of the visa program—has the means to shield the young and mostly female workforce from abuse.

“There is a huge problem with the federal State Department’s inability to actually administer and provide oversight of this program,” said Rocio Avila, senior employment law counsel and state policy director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

The live-in childcare workers are recruited through sponsor companies and can stay in the U.S. with a J-1 exchange visitor visa. Families pay an agency fee, and those they employ can work a maximum of 45 hours per week and get paid weekly at a rate of $4.35 per hour, as the cost of au pair room and board is deducted from their federal minimum wage. They’re tied to their host families and sponsoring companies. Many have reportedly faced threats of deportation, as well as financial, physical, and sexual abuse.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men for conspiring to attack the Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., with authorities saying the men also tried to coordinate with an extremist militia group.

Ian Benjamin Rogers, 45, and Jarrod Copeland, 37, “began planning to attack targets they associated with Democrats after the 2020 presidential election and sought support from an anti-government militia group,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a release Friday.

Copeland is a former member of the military who was discharged in lieu of court martial. He then joined the “Three Percenters,” an anti-government extremist group...

The ex-military thing is what kinda freaks me out. Seems like they're harboring a bunch of kooks, not just in the U.S. but in Europe (Germany) as well.

hell yeah let’s go

SCOOP: The Biden admin. has weakened proposed health & safety rules for public housing.

HUD no longer plans to require fire extinguishers, circuit breakers to prevent electrocution, & other key safety features — contrary to codes adopted in many states.https://t.co/k2tiioP9A4

— Suzy Khimm (@SuzyKhimm) July 14, 2021

jfc

A fine use of horseshoe theory

Pushed him so far left that he popped out on the right side I see

— a tiny manatee (@ateenymanatee) July 16, 2021

crypto + drugs is the mystery zone where the horseshoe connects

The Biden admin stressed the new inspection standards haven't been finalized—HUD is still accepting public feedback on them: https://t.co/qZHFhaAodA
HUD has already promised to make one change—to prohibit fire doors from being propped open—in response to one of my questions.

— Suzy Khimm (@SuzyKhimm) July 14, 2021

they're just making this shit up as they go along I guess

can't they finalize the one that says you have to have circuit breakers and a fire extinguisher? seems uncontroversial. unless you are a section 8 landlord, of course.

Landlords, property managers, and other industry players lobbied against some of the safety standards that HUD initially proposed, arguing they would be too expensive to implement.

They warned strict requirements could drive away Section 8 landlords & reduce the housing supply.

— Suzy Khimm (@SuzyKhimm) July 14, 2021

Literal Grenfell

If we insist that public housing not be constantly on fire, there may not be enough constantly-blazing public housing for people to die in. And then where would we be.

It's still a public comment period, make your feelings known! (see follow up tweet from the reporter that got way less engagement).

why are you assuming i don't already have the relevant hud.gov page open

make sure you impress upon them that you and all your friends are in fact powerful landlords

from a good thread about the au pair legal human trafficking thing

That's exactly what one congressional staffer who wants to reform the program told me pic.twitter.com/ZGVfYrel2j

— Zack Kopplin (@ZackKopplin) July 16, 2021

Like why did they even bother replacing Ben Carson if this is the result. 'Ben Carson' is the situational low bar that anyone can and everyone should clear.

It should not be necessary to tell a Democratic administration that killing poor people so landlords can be richer is a bad thing.

fair

Reporter: "What's your message to platforms like Facebook?"

President Biden: "They're killing people." pic.twitter.com/jrAvQpG7i0

— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2021

why are you assuming i don't already have the relevant hud.gov page open

Facebook is killing people? Damn, hardcore. ILXor just gave me a mild rash that one time