Retire, Breyer: another September 2021 US Politics thread

it was a nice reminder. i think "abortion is boring. it's a simple medical procedure" isn't a great thing for a man to say, but what do i know

i'm in favor of people not calling it a "painful decision" when they don't know whether the person's decision was actually painful. maybe it would be less painful if people didn't act like it's more justified in the two dramatic circumstances listed above. also "assailant planted his seed"? barf emoji

notes app screenshot definitely a man, maybe marc loi

Yeah, "the infant", "planted his seed" just shut the fuck up Mr Pro-Choice

Marc Loi. wow.

takes me back

wait if you click the image there are 2 more poorly written nightmare scenarios

i'm pro-little Cathy one is THE WORST

https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Cathy-Comic1.jpg

there are a non-zero number of people who call themselves "pro-choice" who I'd really call "pro life with caveats"

hold on, i need to make this pro-choice argument even better - you wanna know something REALLY FUCKED UP?

there are a non-zero number of people who call themselves "pro-choice" who I'd really call "pro life with caveats"

I would guess this is true of many of the people who polls identify as pro-choice

I mean that could be said about any number of non-sociopaths whose frame of mind is basically 'I would personally never do x bit I don't feel the need to legislatively impose my preferences upon every other person who isn't me'.

Millions lose unemployment benefits this weekend, in one of the largest and most abrupt ends to government assistance in American history. W/ @yjtorbati and @andrewvandam. https://t.co/gLwzcAmjYJ pic.twitter.com/W6uJDLRWdS

— Alyssa Fowers (@alyssafowers) September 5, 2021

House Dem @WhipClyburn tells Jim @Acosta the $3.5 T figure for budget reconciliation is just a "celling" and not a "floor". Clyburn says there is $2T worth of negotiating room. Worth noting that progressives like @BernieSanders & @AOC have said $3.5 T is already a compromise. pic.twitter.com/JXZiVB73iA

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) September 8, 2021

so the “whip” is negotiating with himself on national tv? this is what makes the democratic party so unique

he's trying to reach across that aisle, see what kinds of hands may be over to shake. you know what they say about political compromise - "you have to put a blindfold on, turn the movie theater lights out, and just start walking over on the other side, even if you hear them screaming and hissing you and feel like it may get violent soon. it doesn't matter - you just have to start it off yourself even if you don't think anyone is there at all. to show the people"

the classic move

what did wee willie keeler say?

go ahead, think about it. what did wee willie keeler say?

he said "hit 'em where they ain't!"

that means hit them where they ain't looking, and THAT means negotiating when they weren't even thinking they were going to get to negotiate at all. no one's looking there, then you just SOCK 'EM!

“We believe we have compromised significantly, and we're prepared to compromise further"

- wee willie keeler

in addition to getting a bunch of their voters killed, now the GOP has to worry about this

A new study by researchers at three universities have concluded that ivermectin causes sterility in 85% of men. https://t.co/7v8bbZj91g

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 9, 2021

So-called "tort reform" has been near the top of the GOP agenda now for a couple of decades in preparation for just such eventualities.

Dr Rasmussen suggested people are greatly misunderstanding that study so I'd take witha grain of salt

yeah that headline is pretty misleading but its still pretty funny

Clyburn has been nothing but a fucking pain in the ass lately. Has he always been this annoying

Clyburn has probably always had a high level of annoyance potential, but there must be some formula that calculates effective annoyance as a ratio of potential annoyance to Congressional seniority that increases from one term in office to the next.

Whatever the science determines on Ivermectin, seems like most of the men taking it would be in their 50s+, and thus past their prime babymakin' years?

Perhaps it's an outdated assumption but my mind tends to conjure up grumpy Fox-watchin' olds in MAGA hats who already have adult children. They're not threatened by a chance of sterility.

This should not be surprising as the drug industry pretty much helped create the opioid crisis issues in the US. It's not like the Purdue Pharma people had to give back "THEIR" money. The business is gone but they have their money.

Being Ivermectin is a horse drug, I would not doubt at all that some of the fools pushing this shit for fun and profit probably donate money to clowns like curly haired Randy Paul.

Building boom in hell to house all of them...

Want a government job? There might be openings soon for positions formerly filled by anti-vax chuds.

that ivermectin story had a sample size of 37 so I'm not sure why people are claiming it's credible

hmm my fed office had to delay reopening by a month (required to be there at least 1x/week) because we had too many unvaxed and needed to establish a testing program. hoping this will delay it another month to give them a chance to get their shots.

The biggest side effect of ivermectin is schadenfreude among the vaccinated left -- the thought of these rugged, conservative individualists all taking the same horse drug, shitting their pants and turning sterile is just too great to be contained by a scientific study.

In the journalism biz we call that "too good to check."

about fuckin' time, imo:

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce sweeping new vaccine mandates designed to ramp up pressure on the unvaccinated, putting in place additional requirements for federal employees, large employers, and health care providers that the administration said would affect around 100 million workers, more than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce.

Biden will ask the Department of Labor to issue a rule requiring all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or produce a negative Covid test at least once a week, said a senior administration official. The requirement could carry a $14,000 fine per violation and would affect two-thirds of the country's workforce, the official said.

Biden will also order that the vast majority of health care facilities require their staff be fully vaccinated as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, a move that would affect 17 million workers at 50,000 health care providers, the official said. As of July, 27 percent ofthe country's health care workers were unvaccinated, according to a study by the Covid States Project.

gonna be some epic Fox personality meltdowns tonight

get ready to learn about Freedom and God, for real.

Tucker will wear the striped tunic of a Dachau survivor

rip usa

I guess we'll soon see if the USA has become ungovernable.

#BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer tells NPR he will retire on his own terms.

"When exactly I should retire, or will retire, has many complex parts to it. I think I'm aware of most of them, and I am, and will consider them," he said. https://t.co/8WqyYV0k6l

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) September 9, 2021

Time to get out the heart attack gun.

get ready for the "is 7-2 really that much worse than 6-3?" takes

If we’re this close to rock bottom, shouldn’t we just go ahead and hit it really hard?

Just goes to show that my attitude toward judges— narcissistic dick-swinging assholes— is otm

lucky guess

Name one “complex part”.

He loses the free SCOTUS lunch buffet

Which of his houses would he live in? Who would read him his mail and help him answer it? What would he do after breakfast? It complicated stuff.

This vaccination speech is not very good but the meltdowns are going to be marvelous.

this is a good line tbf

“Some of the biggest companies are already requiring this,” President Biden says of mandatory vaccines and testing.

“Even Fox News."

— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 9, 2021

Just goes to show that my attitude toward judges— narcissistic dick-swinging assholes— is otm

Judges start life as lawyers, so...yeah.

Breyer's creepy grin creepier

South Dakota will stand up to defend freedom. @JoeBiden see you in court.

— Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) September 9, 2021