US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

People who kill themselves go to Hell according to most Christian dogma that I know/remember.

We can send those who wish to join the Kingdom of Heaven to an island and we can hunt them win win

…while we’re taking our inspiration from classic works of fiction

xp that’s dogmatically true. The trick is to put yourself in a position to die where you don’t technically kill yourself

that's why they're so mad that biden is gonna ban all the red meat!

For example, “I will take this poisonous snake with the power of the lord!”

Er, tame. But some try to “know” the snake as well

They’re pretty much dying of whiteness anyway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness

I want to white out

The problem is they're killing the rest of us, too

otm

"Dying of Whiteness": Underrated Vampire Weekend Bop

my favorite Carly Rae Jepsen couplet:

white problems
who's got'em?

Dying of Whiteness is a great book, highly recommended.

Looks like Matt Gaetz has a long weekend ahead of him

Breaking: Joel Greenberg, Seminole's disgraced former tax collector, is now set to change his not-guilty plea during a hearing Monday morning. This signals that he has reached a deal with federal prosecutors. Deadline had been Saturday.

Story soon on https://t.co/YW9kPUGr6P

— Jeff Weiner (@JeffWeinerOS) May 13, 2021

and yet, he's still a sitting member of congress. i seriously expected to get back from a recent vacation and find him in jail. but the gop, etc

tbh, i'm surprised they ever found the courage to take away the committee seats from neo-nazi Steve King

I'm really excited to see just what it takes to force him to resign.

imagine going into work and everyone's waving hello at the guy who makes fake IDs so he can sleep with teenagers, and everyone knows it

like, that one thing alone would be enough for me to make a huge fuss and quit my job, if they didn't throw the fucker out IMMEDIATELY. i guess congress is different, because there's over 100+ dudes who are completely corrupt and also actively try to fuck teenagers

tbh I'm guessing that fucking teenagers has long been a bipartisan activity in Congress. (I'm also going to stipulate without googling that there is a Capitol Hill-themed porn movie out there called Bi-Partisan.)

let's not forget what a scumbag Greenberg was too. he was my tax collector at one point, and one year during Trump's admin he was engaging in flame wars on Twitter with people and actually looking up their tax records and using it against him ("maybe you'll pay your registration tax on time next year" or something, he said to one person)

(in addition to what he was already accused of, obv)

Gaetz is on tour right now, and you know what tour is all about, right?

a girl in every high school

it's called the fucking America First tour, it's un-fucking-believable. i believe greene is fundraising off of the fascism tour as well

it's called the fucking America First tour, it's un-fucking-believable. i believe greene is fundraising off of the fascism tour as well

greene sticking it to the libs by touring with a guy who is trying to fuck teenagers

(I'm also going to stipulate without googling that there is a Capitol Hill-themed porn movie out there called Bi-Partisan.)

I did google and it's not Capitol Hill-themed

the Fucking America First tour

this thing is the first time i've learned about private citizens being "tax collectors." it seems like something that would happen in a smaller, older state, like delaware.

greene sticking it to the libs by touring with a guy who is trying to fuck teenagers

I think you mean "a guy who fucked a teenager"

it's still infrastructure week

Biden on Thursday reiterated his willingness to compromise on an infrastructure package as he welcomed a group of six Republican senators to the Oval Office of the White House, a meeting he said came together at their “mutual request.”

Biden said he believes the Republicans, including Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who has taken the lead in promoting a more modest infrastructure package than one proposed by Biden, are operating in “good faith.” Biden said he hoped the discussion would include what “constitutes infrastructure from both our perspectives” as well as funding levels.

Asked by a reporter if he is prepared to make a lower offer, Biden, said, “I’m prepared to compromise.”

Biden was joined by Vice President Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Other Republican senators attending the meeting were John Barrasso (Wyo.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Patrick J. Toomey (Pa.), and Roger Wicker (Miss.)

will be shocking when these same senators support a GOP coup in 2024

I'm really excited to see just what it takes to force him to resign.

The head of his party was just impeached twice, yet served his full term and retired with full benefits. With such a clear example to follow, why on earth would he resign?

Infrastructure? Each state should have its own plastic recycling plant, no more shipping our garbage off to Asia

sometimes when i get a little sloppy drunk i like to advise everyone to never, ever admit you're wrong, and to always fight back and punch back 10x harder, no matter what. it's usually triggered by seeing someone be completely wrong and realizing they'll never admit it, but the true inspiration is the today's GOP. as much as they've been supporting fascism since 1964, at least they had at least SOME sense of shame for many of those years. it is completely gone now.

again, the infamous "i could shoot someone on 5th avenue" bla bla bla was an important threshold. most people thought he was just being dumb or crass or whatever, and most of the others who took him seriously were shocked that he would say that. but now i realize that the GOP and conservatives were listening closely and were very excited by the possibility that they could be above the law

Biden, said, “I’m prepared to compromise.”

He's working from an old script, but I'm fine if the amounts to be spent change somewhat at the margins, so long as those "margins" do not include the spending designed to strengthen minority communities and fight climate change. The exact dollar amount isn't the core issue, but it's directly coupled to how strongly the policies will be implemented.

seems like a compromise bill with broad republican support plus everything else pushed through reconciliation would be the way to deal with this

this has been coming for a week or two apparently

Joe Manchin just proposed a really aggressive voting rights bill that goes well beyond the bill that Democratic leaders are pushing.https://t.co/uES8dbXdsm

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) May 13, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html

Be cool if the CIA heart attack gun got turned on Erik Prince.

huh that's surprising from manchin

It’s a big who cares if he’s expecting (lol) 10 GOP votes for cloture.

Yeah it seems like an obvious feint?

really don't get what his angle is here

To even analyze this as strategy breaks my brain, but he wouldn't float this proposal if he wasn't "signaling" movement of some kind, I guess.

he wants bold voting laws but we absolutely must preserve the sanctity of the filibuster? ok....

Fun detail from the AZ dog & pony show audit:

According to documents released under court order, however, Cyber Ninjas prepared for sinister antifa agents to disrupt their efforts.

For instance, they worried that a nearby chemical storage area could be sabotaged by leftists as part of an orchestrated attempt to breach the counting area.

This hasn't happened.

yet

Manchin probably thinks if he proposes a *really* strong voting rights bill that, darn toot it, he *really* means, well, the Rs will just *have* to come around and compromise on a weaker voting rights bill, without him having to nuke his precious filibuster. Manchin would be wrong.