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

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

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

― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Sunday, August 22, 2021 12:59 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Romney said his father, Michigan Governor George Romney, had told him, "Mitt, never get involved in politics if you have to win an election to pay a mortgage."

lol what’s your excuse

must amuse myself while coasting toward death

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

careful out there James

*from the direction of the u.s. supreme court, the soft sounds of blood and other liquids oozing out of ancient justice's bodies can be faintly heard dripping onto the hardwood floors. the floors are easier to clean this way. some of justices believe that the floors are kept hardwood for this reason - to make it easier to clean up their failing body, the liquids trying to escape from the host.*

"looooooooooool we're all fucking old too, except for the federalist society wing! loooooooool"

CNN reported this morning that Trump's audience at the Sat. Alabama rally "stopped in mid-cheer" when he spoke favorably about vaccination (guess when they first heard the word, thought he would go negatatory)--- subsequent mention of outright booing---

So then, in footage, he was like, "We all have the freedom to chose, that's great, but I'm just sayin'"--for how long? CNN also showed Hannity backing down, after previously having said, "I believe in the science behind it" etc. (CNN also pouncing on actual Fox corporate policy, and control room masked up while talking heads rant vs. masks and vax)

careful out there James

There is/has been a lot of digital content at the post that doesn't make it into the dead tree print edition, mostly commentary. That's why it confused me for a while to see that mustache prog guy (Weigl?) described as a Post writer, he's mever in the "paper" edition I read. (I like getting newsprint on my hands).

I don't think there's any Post content that is only in the dead tree but not online.

must amuse myself while coasting toward death

^^New Borad Description?

^seconded

.@TheProspect has learned that "several" of the nine conservative House Democrats who insisted to Nancy Pelosi that they would not vote for a budget resolution without a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package first have flipped. There are no longer 9 Dem holdouts.

— David Dayen (@ddayen) August 22, 2021

.@BernieSanders just sent an extensive email to his list explaining why he’s hitting the road at the end of this coming week. pic.twitter.com/uusdmeE3Uj

— mike casca (@cascamike) August 22, 2021

good lord, i thought that said "hitting the end of the road" and my heart stopped for a second

It meant he's covering Boyz II Men cover band.

let's let bygones be begones and have FUN out on the campaign trail this year!!

Dear White House staff, please share the below polling to @POTUS. He said he had not seen it yet. https://t.co/dW09nTjQeX

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) August 22, 2021

These fucking dweebs

Am I right to be mildly concerned that this Elder fuck might actually take over California? Or are the Dems just finally getting out the message that they actually need people to not sit this one out?