US Politics, January 2022 — a pro-God, pro-family, pro-bitcoin state

xxpost if only!

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Alas, too late

https://www.medicaldaily.com/world-famous-cat-man-who-spent-years-morphing-himself-tiger-may-have-died-suicide-243516

Susan Collins: “As you know, I felt that the timetable for the last nominee was too compressed. This time there is no need for any rush. We can take our time, have hearings, go through the process, which is a very important one it is a lifetime appointment after all.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 27, 2022

we can't nominate a new SC justice so close to the informed vote of Americans in the 2022 midterms! and once we reach 2022, of course, it would be unconscionable for a democratic president to nominate a left-leaning judge when the GOP controls the house and the senate. by that time we'll be postponing the trial of donald trump for shooting 400 people in the face on a fox news special, because it'll be too close to 2024

we can't do anything about trump murdering people, the GOP passed a law in january 2025 making it legal

tbf Collins voted against ACB because she supposedly objected to the rushed hearings. She's signalling that the process is going to be to her liking this time (she also said she'd already discussed the timeline with Durbin)

I often wonder if even Susan Collins puts any stock in anything Susan Collins says.

the only thing more embarrassing than being Susan Collins is being the person who voted for her

I often wonder if even Susan Collins puts any stock in anything Susan Collins says.

Susan Collins should be put in stocks.

the only thing more embarrassing than being Susan Collins is being the person who voted for her

How about the person who lost to her?

Ergo being Amy McGrath is more embarrassing than being Moscow Mitch?

Doesn’t that person still have eight digits of leftover campaign money? Probably feeling fine tbh

lol yeah speaking as someone who almost certainly (I’d need to check my records) rage-donated a little $$$ to Gideon at some point, I’m probably the biggest rube of all.

Lol no way is a biden appointed SC judfe getting thru the senate- Breyer str8 up trolling everyone who was saying a year ago that he shd retire

cool thanks!

It will be party line + Romney maybe but someone is getting through. If you control the Senate (and they do) and can't get a nominee through, you should just close down the party and go home.

This isn't Garland, McConnell has no actual power to stop anything.

I'm not optimistic, but I'd be more likely to bet Murkowski or Mindy Moderate joins Dems, not Romney.

Manchin and Sinema have voted for Biden nominations for appeals and District courts ( as noted above somewhere I think) . Hopefully they will do the same here

lmao Beto might be the worst political campaigner of my lifetime

Abbott is a corrupt socialist.

He encouraged his corporate buddies to make obscene profits during the grid failure and forced us to pay for their windfall in higher utility bills.

He privatized the gains to a few and socialized the losses to every single ratepayer in Texas.

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) January 28, 2022

u ok Beto?

I get what he's trying to do, but it is far too dumbly clever to be effective

yeah man this sux.

at least clearly anchor it with some ‘socialism for the rich; laissez-faire fReE mArKeT bootstraps for everyone else’

(which ‘socialized the losses’ I guess is an attempt to do. idk, maybe don’t make ‘socialism’ the bogeyman)

maybe he's going for "socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor," but, no, he's not bright enough

Yeah I was going to say he’s just a dummy

but nah I think he’s just being honest (but also dumb)

He's got the brain of a labrador, minus the ability to catch a frisbee in his mouth.

My son has gotten into watching basketball on YouTube, for some reason he decided to watch the entire 2009 All-Star game this morning

Anyway John McCain was there and he did an interview with a sideline reporter. It’s weird how much shit has changed, you would never see a prominent Republican politician at an NBA game now, and they sure as hell wouldn’t be getting interviewed

And it sure as hell wouldn’t be John McCain.

Another in the long line of "visit a small town and talk to paranoid conservatives at a diner" articles, noteworthy to me only because it's my wife's home town.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/01/28/in-one-small-prairie-town-two-warring-visions-of-america

The angle of the newspaper publisher is a bit interesting, I guess.

He criticizes conservative politicians for trying to make it illegal to burn the American flag, but worries about far-right accusations that U.S. soldiers are hunting down American conservatives.

“Maybe five or 10 years ago, I would have said ‘That’s crazy!’” he said. “Now I acknowledge it might be possible. I’m not saying I think it’s happening, but at least I don’t dismiss it the way that I would have.”

His brain then began to dribble out of his ears and nose, having finally turned into liquid.

No. He's right. The US government freely admits that U.S. soldiers have used remotely-operated drones to kill American citizens because of their conservative religious and political beliefs. Foremost among those beliefs was their sworn active allegiance to ISIS.

having been to visit this town dozens of times over the past ten years or so, I can say I've seen some of the shift they're talking about, but the only salient aspects of it are things like the Fuck Biden/Fuck Your Feelings flags and banners—the change in minority presence in the town is not as palpable as they make it out to be, and people like my mother-in-law are very welcoming and excited to have new faces in town… it's depressing the reporter didn't speak to people like her and her friends (her neighbor across the street has an FYF flag, lolsob)

my MiL's politics are such that during election season she dutifully puts out a well-worn Paul Wellstone sign along with those of current Dem candidates

My late cousin had one of those (and he was my best friend’s poli sci prof at Carleton).

I bet Roberts is glad someone will come to shake the conservative majority off its haunches. I am figuring he is part of "the experiment" but have been warned before that this is wishful thinking.

tell us more of this "experiment"

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what a horrible looking "suit"

quoted from near the end: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/us/politics/biden-breyer-retirement.html

The photo of Biden, Hatch, Teddy, and Strom Thurmond at the bottom of the story should tell you everything about a forgotten era of comity *throws up*

xps - If you mean Justice Roberts, I suspect he is very comfortable with his ideas and sees himself as occupying the ideal middle ground, so that he most likely will welcome having a liberal justice other than Breyer who will add a new perspective to the court's deliberations. Of course, he'll continue to complacently congratulate himself for doing such a wonderful job as Chief Justice -- as the court churns out a long series of highly reactionary and retrograde 6-3 decisions, with the occasional 5-4 decision that he declined to join, which collectively set the country back 100 years and cement the anti-democratic white ruling class in place for the foreseeable future.

his idol

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Yes (xp). I thought he might want to retain the middle but that it might be more than self-interest but agree that it is overly optimistic to think **anyone** (please excuse ignorance regarding markup) would care about an institution of government or politics more than oneself.

I guess I also had some notion that the middle would shift on account of personality/temperament/reputation/significance (yet TBD) although strictly by counts no and that there would be accommodation.

crazy how that’s all it takes to bridge the bipartisan divide pic.twitter.com/CbM2iqY6PR

— taft-hartley was an inside job 🪧 (@truthdotnet) January 31, 2022

I don't care how rude it is to say, but Jim Clyburn is a total asshole

yeah he sucks

Agreed.

I was really ready to stan for Clyburn til the end. He was there man. But screw that guy, wtf.