Lady G Shook the Covid Tree - August 2021 US Politics Thread

i'm not sure how evergreen of a link that is. at the moment, it all goes to a california teacher - later, it will go to something completely different

A California teacher is hospitalized after he's allegedly attacked by a parent over face masks on the first day of school
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/us/teacher-parent-fight-face-masks-trnd/index.html

Couple violently attacks Indigenous Filipina nurse distributing face masks in New York subway
https://news.yahoo.com/couple-violently-attacks-indigenous-filipina-185336808.html

On this day, things are not going well for three patients. One in particular, a woman in her 50s, will not live much longer.

“This patient is trying to die right now. We’re trying to get ahold of family to let them know transitions are happening,” said Monica Schulz, the nurse who manages this ICU.

1984. that's what that sounds like, feels like

At one point, two people -- a masked man and unmasked woman -- got into a yelling match. The woman accused the man of spitting on her and the man accused the woman of hitting him in the mouth.

from another cnn story. wtf

clay higgins (r-LA) is ready to beat somebody up

A man from Alaska named Joel Dolphin roasted Higgins in the comment section of one of the congressman’s posts on Tuesday, saying that “Higgins and his ilk have made it abundantly clear they are domestic enemies to our Constitution” and that “sycophantic fools like Traitor Higgins happily amplified” ex-President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.

Higgins exploded.

“Joel Dolphin, you be the messenger son. You. I’m easy to find,” he wrote. “Higgins out.”

Dolphin said he would “happily take the time to repeat myself to your face” if Higgins ever visited Anchorage.

The Republican told his internet detractor that he’ll be visiting the state with Rep. Don Young (R-AK) next year

“Locate us a ring, or a dojo,” Higgins wrote. “I’ll give you a few rounds to make your point. Be seeing you. Higgins out.”

higgins out

xp hate it when someone wearing a mask over their mouth spits on me

that's me btw, i am clay higgins and those are my views as expressed in tens of thousands of posts to this very message board, you may risk your body in disagreement should we ever cross paths

higgins out

xp

i will fight you clay, in a place of my choosing and a time of your choosing. so tell me what time it's going to be and we will duke it out.

what's sad in that story is that BOTH the congressman/pugilist and the rando alaskan guy are ex-cops

Well, we are residing in the absolute worst of all possible timelines, lest we ever fail to be reminded every five minutes.

Higgins out.

HIGGINS OUT

I always thought you could be arrested if you walked around in public with your higgins out.

Nice

Scoop: Multiple House Dem moderates have fielded calls from DCCC that they took as a warning they could be cut off financially if they oppose the budget next week. https://t.co/wK4UtHZjj8

— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) August 20, 2021

hig is the hot new verb:

Dude, scored some really lit vape juice last night. we were totally higgin' out.

Yeah babe, I meant to txt u last night but CSI Miami was on, and I higgined out.

Every time I mention capybaras to my boo, he totally higgins out.

When you hig out, you usually have a reason for the action

This is how you Higgins Out:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EptcPyDXMAAnBVB.jpg

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-media-coverage-afghanistan-withdrawal_n_612014d6e4b0c69681087cd7

I spent too much time last night trying to find a “Seacrest out” YouTube video

The internet seems to have forgotten that

You tried, and that’s what matters.

and this is why JD Vance is getting his ass handed to him. you can't fake real Conservative Brain https://t.co/1yyZbR2FdU

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) August 21, 2021

Gettin Higgy with it

xp

oh lindsey-paws. i guess one measure of how the world has changed so rapidly (in my view, at least) is that graham's statement doesn't even register as newsworthy. it's just what everything is now, it's expected

The era of perpetual presidential impeachment is probably upon us.

Six months after the conclusion of the last impeachment, Republicans have begun calling for President Biden to be removed from office over his handling of the evacuation of Americans and allies from Kabul.

“If we leave one American behind, if we don’t get all those Afghans who stepped up to the plate to help us out, then Joe Biden, in my view, has committed a high crime and misdemeanor under the Constitution and should be impeached,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) said Friday on Fox News.

On Monday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the No. 3 Republican in House leadership, called for Biden’s ousting amid the evacuation chaos at Kabul’s airport. “Joe Biden is unfit to serve as President of the United States of America,” Stefanik wrote on Twitter, a phrase she has reiterated several times since.

Add those comments to the sentiment from GOP provocateurs who draw outsize attention on conservative news, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who announced Thursday night that she would introduce articles of impeachment related to Afghanistan.

It’s now increasingly clear: If Republicans win the House majority, Biden is very likely to be impeached.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/biden-republicans-impeachment/2021/08/21/90538f4c-01c9-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/17/16-republicans-voted-against-special-visas-help-afghanistan-people/8163392002/

A lot of journalists who were around (and implicated) at the start, seem furious/baffled that most people either don’t care or are cynical or sad about what happened over the past 20 years but otherwise supportive of withdrawal (Rubin is terrible for other reasons but she’s not one of them afaict)

in NBC poll Afgh is literally nowhere on the list of concerns: Economy/Jobs (26%), Immig (10), covid (7), corruption +healthcare (5)... not even 1 %?? https://t.co/Ik5DJOEKr3

— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 22, 2021

Rubin, I hate to say, has been consistent about her swing away from the right in recent years. But she does like war, I think.

i don't read her much - did she used to be more of a "centrist" or a bush supporter? when i read her column these days she just sounds like she picks up things that other people blogged about 5 days ago and used that to put together her own column

and also seems SHOCKED at all these really obvious developments that are foreseeable for months in advance. like when Biden gets impeached after the 2022 midterms, she is going to be SHOCKED

She was fanatical about Romney iirc.

lol

i never understand how people like this get a gig writing a prominent op-ed column in a national newspaper

she did manage to pick the ONE republican senator with a spine though

She adored Romney.

for all the ways romney sucks, at least he already had enough attained enough personal wealth and political power to be temporarily able to make a very, VERY obvious stand against all of the bootlickers in his party. no one else did

Her valentines to Romney in 2011-2012 were the closest contemporary equivalent to George Will's gay-ass paeans to Ronnie Reagan.

Though apparently immediately after Romney lost she wrote a scathing article about all the aspects of his campaign that she had praised a few months earlier.

I just posted that tweet because of the survey result. I don’t endorse her or even think she’s particularly worth talking about.

Her Wikipedia page is clearly written by someone with understandable contempt for her.

" The boyfriend" looks nice and the girls seem to have eaten their spaghetti and meat balls!

— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 19, 2020

the picture is grim, the tweet is weird af

lol

i never understand how people like this get a gig writing a prominent op-ed column in a national newspaper

yeah she was one of the loudest Cuomo-boosters.

these people are so profoundly silly it’s almost like we’re being punked

looooool harbl, that tweet. whaaaaa!?

xp is that right boring, MD? i've never had the "real" version of the washpost, only the digital subscription. it does make me curious, though, about the relevant numbers of physical vs digital readers. i'd assume at this point that it would be much more of a relegation to be banished to physical-only, rather than digital-only?

90-year old Senators don’t read the digital edition.

that tweet. whaaaaa!?

I'm thinking the pressure on professional journalistic 'pundits' to tweet incessantly eventually results in their babbling incoherent nonsense just to fill their daily tweet quota.

lol what’s your excuse

i think 90 year old senators just wake up every day and cackle and how fucking evil they are

"i'm 90! i think i'm the best suited person to be one of just two senate for my entire state! my power is immense, and i'm fucking 90 years old! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! oh hi jennifer, who is this spaghetti boyfriend i keep hearing about?"

could be. or maybe Cuomo is a legit vampire and JR is in his thrall?

"tiiiiiiiiiiime to go to a hearing on cryptocurrency! i don't even know what that means!! :P :P :P AND I'M RICH!!!"

hahaha, i'm in charge of an investigation now! i just hired this new researcher who is SEVENTY YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME! hope they know how to read these adobe PDFs

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime for my 90-year-old ass to talk out loud about RACISM in the united states! i was born in the 1930s!!!! loooooooooool