U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

The nearest Sambo's quietly turned into a Denny's in the early '80s. Hm.

The first & last one in Santa Barbara (?) kept the brand going for a really long time.. and then reluctantly changed it to Sam's or something

There was a Sambo's where Sherwin-Williams is now... Sambo's used to be there... Sambo's was farther up on the parking lot, more where the paint store is now... I know Sambos was where the paint store is now... I think Sambo's was actually about where Sherwin Williams is now... Sambo's where paint store is... Sambos was where the Sherwin Williams paint store is... Sambos was never on the corner. It was behind it on the hill. It was were Sherwin Williams Paint is now... Sambos was where the paint store is right behind... Sambo's is where the paint Store is now that's next door... There was a restaurant called Sambos... Above where Sherwin Williams is now was Sambo's... Sambo's Restaurant was on the hill behind Lindsey's Steak where Sherwin Paint is now... Sambos was up the hill where the Sherwin Williams store is now...

THESE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME GODDAMMED THREAD.
― pplains, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 8:31 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

from Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

lol

Dying

our sambo's had a mascot / greeter / clown in a furry tiger suit. my parents still make fun of me for being scared of the tiger at age 3

Wow, the Santa Barbara location held on until the bitter end:

In late May 2020, George Floyd protests against racism in the United States began in cities across the United States, including Santa Barbara. A petition drive asked the owner to change the name of Sambo's. In June 2020, the name on the original Sambo's sign was temporarily changed to the motto "☮ & LOVE" ("Peace and love"). In July 2020, the restaurant was officially renamed to "Chad's"...

Should be Chodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMZpq5C401M

the chad not sambo's vs the virgin racist

I remember diners with separate jukeboxes in each booth. Mercifully, hardly anyone ever used them. Can you imagine if everyone was playing a different song at the same time? Horrendous.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, January 25, 2023 11:37 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

In my experience, these were separate jukebox controls that would feed into the overhead restaurant PA.

See what he did here?? Pretty good

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Tuesday introduced the Pelosi Act — or the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act — renewing a legislative push to curtail stock trading by lawmakers that has failed over the last few years.

I haven't seen anything Pat Buchanan has written about talked about in any significant manner in years, and have not seen him on tv in just as many (the latter is surely down to MSNBC deciding that his hideous views were incompatible with its late 2000s olbermann era priorities)… surely this retirement announcement is more about his being at death's door…

He was the founder of the American Conservative mag, which is still around I think, though I don't know if he still wrote for it.

I have no idea what this bill actually consists of, and I'm sure there's lots of ridiculous showboating and bullshit involved, but the base idea is... fairly reasonable?

Pat Buchanan's career arc:

- dead-eyed Nixon goon (1970s)
- Reagan-era cable news shouter (1980s into early 1990s)
- multiply failed presidential candidate/cable news shouter (somehow this was OK) (mid 90s through early 00s)
- "avuncular" cable news presence, sort of "if Grandpa Munster was a Nazi" (mid 00s till...Obama's second term, maybe?)
- wait, that guy's still alive? (2012-present)

Hawley is a chud and naming that act that way is a major troll, but it's one of the only things he has ever done that I support.

Reagan's second-term direftor of communications too.

xpost - I'm sure Hawley knows this can't and won't pass as many of his GOP colleagues hold stocks and investments, but he came up with a clever acronym, and it will allow him to showboat a bit on C-SPAN

maybe Hawley's giving the bill a name that will stop Dems from voting for it because he doesn't actually want it to pass

xpost

If Hawley is not actively insider trading himself, all the Republicans who are will take turns kicking him in the balls in the House parking garage until this bill is withdrawn or dies.

I can see his shit-eating grin when he came up with that name for the bill

You'll love the new bill I am drafting: Congressional Oversight of Federal Visibility of Economic Feasibility Extension, or COVFEFE

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2884

maybe Hawley's giving the bill a name that will stop Dems from voting for it because he doesn't actually want it to pass

― symsymsym, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 4:05 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

One-dimensional chess!

Hawley could have named it the RICK act, Republicans Involved in Chicanery and Kickbacks, in honor of Rick Scott, who's way wealthier and shadier than Pelosi, but hey way to troll.

xp - that's giving Hawley far too much credit, one-dimensional connect four maybe

screw Hawley but I like this bill and can't really get too upset about it being named after Pelosi

well I guess I don't know a thing about it so for all I know it actually makes it easier to inside trade if you're Republican but yeah it's real shitty how people in Congress all seem to suddenly double their net worth every 2 years

John Ganz has thoughts about Buchanan: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/good-old-pat

I’ve long believed there’s a case to be made that Buchanan, not Buckley, not Goldwater, and not even Ronald Reagan, is the most consequential right-wing figure of the past century.

none of those dues are even 'right wing' by today's standards

NARRATOR: And yet they are.

Andy the grasshopper OTM.

Yeah lol nowadays it's Gingrich (founder of the current rightward swerve, even if he doesn't know it). Then the functionaries like Lott, McConnell, Delay, Cantor, Graham. Politicians all, but with at least some vestigial public spiritedness.

Then came the fuckitall crew and their infotainment allies: Limbaugh, Bannon, Trump, Epshteyn, Lin Wood, MyPillow guy, etc.

Here's where I disagree: Buchanan, even in the Reagan administration, was, ugh, an avuncular dude who actually got along with libs and didn't mind hanging out with them. Gingrich actually demonized them, turned them into roaches and other vermin.

Gingrich is the ground zero for where we are.

maybe, but I can't forget how virulently anti-gay Pat Buchanan was, I didn't see him as avuncular in any sense

Not my definition, dude, it's how the press greeted this brownshirt. I'm gay.

I don't disagree, your lordship. I am on record - voluminously - as saying Newt is the founder of our current predicament.

He has had many enablers. And he even got demonized from the right as a squish/melt for being open to bipartisanship and sitting on a couch with the alleged enemy.

I won't go so far as to say he invented evil (obviously, evil preexisting Newt). But in my lifetime he is the person who did the most to kick off the weaponization of palarized politics.

There were precursors, like the Confederacy and Massive Resistance and Reaganomics. Later practitioners went further into nihilistic horror territory, white male grievance, and undisguised racism.

But in modern terms the Contract with America is a clear through-line to the Tea Party and Trumpism.

Totally! I was responding to Dan S.

Gore Vidal called it the Contract On America.

Nicole Hemmer's recent book Partisans makes a case for Buchanan's influence as well.

https://www.basicbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/9781541646872-1.jpg?fit=435%2C675

John Ganz is writing a similar book, about how the early 1990s set the stage for today.

The Know Your Enemy interview with Nicole Hemmer gets into a lot of this.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-1990s-partisans-nicole-hemmer

I don't listen to her own podcast, but she's a very good podcast guest.

This was the first time I'd heard her, yeah she's smart.

caveat: exclusive interview with raw story. but this tracks

In an exclusive interview with Raw Story, California’s senior senator announced she’s not not running. In fact, she has no plans to decide—let alone announce—her 2024 intentions until next year.

“I need a little bit of time, so it's not this year,” Feinstein told Raw Story at the Capitol Wednesday.

The 89-year-old incumbent says she isn’t fazed by her current—or potential—Democratic challengers.

“Oh, I don't mind it,” the senator smiled. “The more, the merrier.”

“Yeah?” I ask.

“Yes,” the former mayor of San Francisco replied.

“Do you think there’s gonna be a lot of people jumping in?”

“Oh, I have no idea,” Feinstein replied. “But however many there are, that's fine. I mean, I'm a big girl. I've run in a lot of races, so I know...”

“So you’re not worried?”

“Not particularly.”

“Are you going to be running?”

“Umm,” Feinstein thought aloud, “I don't know…”

https://i.imgur.com/odvcRwh.png

There's more than one answer to these questions

Pointing me in a crooked line

The less I seek my source for some definitive

Closer I am to Feinstein

Manchin proposing raising the FICA cap, surprised to see this coming from him. IMO doing this is a fucking no brainer.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/manchin-proposes-easiest-social-security-182706704.html?guccounter=1

what's up with this crazy GOP talk about a 30% national sales tax?

I mean.. some kind of VAT is probably not a bad idea - those who spend more will pay more tax.. but 30%??