Joe Money, Joe Problems: the November 2021 U.S. Politics Thread

yeah, any subdivision named after an animal comes about when the animals are gone.

“Quail Brook” sounds like the title of a lame solo Malkmus c-side from 2003

in orbit otm

the assholes are just louder, maybe more likely to be in the office workplace, and have land to put their trump signs on. it's selection bias.

If they all moved back to the suburbs or cities, it also wouldn't matter (to the climate or anything else), aside from making the rapidly diversifying suburbs as unaffordable as the cities.

En route to Fresno, saw a bunch of variations of this: "Newsom! Stop Dumping Our WATER INTO THE OCEAN!"

Even ancient watersheds and rivers are now the democrats' fault

idk how much I trust the whole yard sign thing my area was fucking slammed with Trump shit in 2020 and he wound up actually losing here by a small amount. Trump is just an entire identity to some people. It goes way beyond politics and policy. as crazy as the people putting up the Trump/Rambo flags are if I ever saw anyone do that with Biden I'd think they were fucking insane

those are not the ONLY people who live in far-flung suburbs and rural areas.

Did someone say that though? I thought it was an example of a person ironically complaining about gas prices and that is exactly what you will hear out there. They gotta have at least one truck, an ATV and a lawn tractor but they aren't farming anything. They like being able to shoot their guns in the back yard. And family farms that can no longer stay afloat are understandably cashing out by selling their land to them. The rural midwest is increasingly becoming a conservative/libertarian playground and they blame Biden for the higher gas prices that are cramping their rugged individualist lifestyle.

Top House Democrats are considering whether to take action against Lauren Boebert for her “harmful and dangerous” comments implying Ilhan Omar is a terrorist threat, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says.

https://t.co/gII8QYhcMT

— Axios (@axios) November 30, 2021

hmm gonna have to mull this one over

Has the sitting President ever not been blamed for gas prices? I don't see that as telling any greater narrative - Bush's popularity (or lack thereof) correlated strongly to rising gas prices from the start of the war on terror onward. The 2006 blue wave midterm came around the same time as record per gallon prices.

"oh no don't censure me" she says as she readies the fundraising emails

Jesus

.@IlhanMN just played a voicemail she received a few hours after she got off the phone w @RepBoebert:

“There’s plenty that would love the opp to take you off the face of the earth… you’re a fucking traitor, you will not live much longer bitch. I can almost guarantee that.”

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) November 30, 2021

VM not left by Boebert, kind of a confusing tweet

Still though..

Jfc

Boebert is garbage, but that's also a bad tweet

I didn't appreciate how Biden has all but halted the drone war, especially compared to Trump https://t.co/kjTNuWdw3r pic.twitter.com/wE7qyqjAmO

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) November 30, 2021

NEW: Patrick Leahy, the longtime former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman + longest-serving sitting U.S. senator, says it's time for Native American activist Leonard Peltier to go home after 44 years in prison. https://t.co/jrNBVJ6uS6

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) November 30, 2021

past time, I'd say. the FBI agents deserved jail time at least as much as the AIM resistors did.

"more just that those are not the ONLY people who live in far-flung suburbs and rural areas."

Do you genuinely believe anyone was under that impression??

Of course I didn’t. But every time it was pointed out that these lazy, broad brush stereotypes were lazy, broad brush stereotypes someone had to chime in with, “gee I dunno, all the rural people *I* know are Trump supporters with massive SUVs”, so I thought it a point worth belaboring. But ilx loves few things more than sneering disdain of anyone who doesn’t live in an urban center.

and with that I want to just bid this thread farewell

may this be its last dying breath

good night sweet thread

may flights of angelzzzz

Going... going...

Come ooooooon, the suspense is killing me. Plus I have to post a thing.

Someone else start whatever this thread is gonna be

"I have had it up to here waiting for the U.S. Congress to be remastered"

lol

I was just thinking of the same title idea lol

ok

US Politics, December 2021 — I have had it up to here waiting for the U.S. Congress to be remastered