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

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I still don't get why it does everyone a favor, though.

the "logic" is that someone else who doesn't have antibodies will get the vaccine sooner, even though logistics don't really work like that

it's not like vaccines are in short supply in the US right now. He's not doing anyone a favor by allowing others to 'get it first' if that's what he means.

i'm starting to think this Ron Johnson guy doesn't know what he's talking about

and if he's so blatantly wrong on this, that could raise questions about his beliefs about many other things....but best not to think about that

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Friday that he and an aide to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) got into a confrontation over the use of face masks on the House floor.

The incident is the latest involving allegedly disruptive behavior by Greene and her staff.

“I had a mask on as I stepped off the Floor,” Swalwell said in a tweet. “An aide with @mtgreenee yelled at me to take my mask off. No one should be bullied for wearing a mask. So I told the bully what I thought of his order. Predictably, he went speechless. I regret I wasn’t more explicit.”

Greene’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

According to Scott Wong, a reporter for the Hill, the aide involved was Greene spokesman Nick Dyer. Wong reported Dyer as saying, “Biden says you can take off your mask.”

Swalwell “confronted Dyer” and “got in his face,” Wong said in a tweet. He added that, according to Dyer, Swalwell said, “You don’t tell me what to [expletive] do!” The Washington Post could not independently verify the exchange.

Under new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaccinated Americans can now mostly ditch their masks indoors — but lawmakers must still wear them on the House floor.

Asked by CNN whether the House’s mask mandate would be relaxed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said: “No. Are they all vaccinated?”

i'm beginning to understand how julius caesar ended up getting stabbed by 40 senators. it starts with words, and then the annoying people get aides that even more annoying, and then eventually it escalates to fistfighting, and then shortly after that the stabbing starts

I would fund a Karl Malone speaking tour.

i think that tour would end in me getting my ass kicked halfway at a a microbrew open mic night

but tbh i've always wanted to go down fighting

Caesar is only the most famous stabbed Roman politician, those guys were constantly stabbing each other!

I would advocate for more of this in modern politics but all that would happen is Greene, Gosar, and Boebert would all stab Manchin repeatedly in the neck while he burbled “but my bill is bipartisan”

maybe senators from both parties could stab manchin

although the stabbers are really the representatives in the house. senators are more like mafia bosses. house reps are the ones with the knives

Doing everyone a favor...by getting COVID?

Yes I think anything that temporarily incapacitates Ron Johnson can be accurately characterized in this way

Meantime

BREAKING: Matt Gaetz's confidant, Joel Greenberg, admits to many crimes in plea(+80 pgs). He doesn't name Gaetz. Greenberg says he and "other adult men" engaged in "commercial sex acts" w/minor. Greenberg says he witnessed the other men having sex w/minor. https://t.co/qzPBYLEopm

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) May 14, 2021

Fairly typical not to have the cooperator name the co-conspirators in the cooperation agreement, at least at this stage — prevents tipping them off. You would name them in a cooperation agreement reached after charges were filed against everyone. https://t.co/QbGxW4CrI2

— EveryKneeShallBowHat (@Popehat) May 14, 2021

Bear in mind federal prosecutors likely wouldn’t go against a defendant — let alone a sitting Congrrssman — without very substantial corroborating evidence to support any testimony from Greenberg, who is supremely skeevy and a terrible witness.

— EveryKneeShallBowHat (@Popehat) May 14, 2021

From yesterday's Politico Playbook:
PALM BEACH MAKES CONTINGENCY PLANS IN CASE TRUMP IS INDICTED — Law enforcement officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., have actively prepared for the possibility that Manhattan District Attorney CY VANCE could indict former President DONALD TRUMP while he’s at Mar-a-Lago, according to two high-ranking county officials involved in planning sessions.

Among the topics discussed in those meetings: how to handle the thorny extradition issues that could arise if an indictment moves forward.

An obscure clause in Florida’s statute on interstate extradition gives Gov. RON DESANTIS the ability to intervene and even investigate whether an indicted “person ought to be surrendered” to law enforcement officials from another state — which means that as Mar-a-Lago prepares to close down for the season and Trump relocates to Bedminster, N.J., it isn’t just the Florida heat he’s leaving behind: He could lose a key piece of political protection.

“The statute leaves room for interpretation that the governor has the power to order a review and potentially not comply with the extradition notice,” says JOE ABRUZZO, clerk of the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County, the official who would be in charge of opening a potential fugitive-at-large case.

One wrinkle to Abruzzo’s potential role in all of this: He is a former close associate of President JOE BIDEN’S younger brother, FRANK. Abruzzo tells Playbook that despite his friendship with the Biden family, “the full extent of the law will be followed and carried out appropriately, without bias.”

If an indictment comes down while Trump is in Bedminster for the summer, this could all play out very differently. New Jersey’s extradition statute is similar to Florida’s, giving the governor the power to investigate an out-of-state warrant. But its governor is Democrat PHIL MURPHY, who is no fan of Trump’s, and would not likely intervene to stop Trump’s extradition. In the event of an indictment, Trump’s lawyers could also negotiate a condition of surrender, which could cut local law enforcement out. An attorney for Trump declined to comment.

With Trump settling down in New Jersey for the next few months, Florida is unlikely to have to sort through this any time soon. But the clock is ticking on the Manhattan D.A.’s investigation: On March 12, Vance said in a statement that he will retire at the end of 2021, and speculation abounds that his office — which is currently investigating whether Trump and his businesses committed banking and tax fraud, among other lines of inquiry — could issue indictments before passing the case along to his successor.

And that means that Palm Beach County may yet have to get involved — depending on whether Trump is indicted, of course, and whether that happens after Mar-a-Lago reopens in the fall.

The message here is that Trump should remain in FL and never, ever come up north again. Ever.

but if i'm reading that correctly, if he stays in FL then DESANTIS will probably step in and pull some bullshit if he's indicted

oops, DeSantis I mean! i subconsciously absorbed the Playbook STYLE

last I saw he actually relocated to New Jersey for summer.

is MTG a ... is she a drinker? she seems a bit drinky drinky.

It appears from that article that Mar-a-Lago shuts down entirely each summer. No way would he stay at a completely empty resort all summer, being served by a skeleton staff.

Like an inverse of The Shining

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it is true that MTG likes to enjoy an adult beverage (OR TWO!) with the gals at lunch, what is wrong with that?!

https://i.imgur.com/vZ186jB.jpg

MTG would hang out in town, working out, or just working, period. And yes, she would hang out and sometimes enjoy a beer or two with friends as they talked life and football!

https://i.imgur.com/9wgyOrS.jpg

so she drank beers with her friends. Sometimes she has too many beers. She likes beer!

https://i.imgur.com/CkZkNKo.jpg

so this is what it has come down to, in this country. a patriot drinking a beer in her backyard with her friends, talking about life, and football, and yes, having a beer or two at lunch with the gals. You people make me sick. I hope you're proud. I hope you're proud of what you've done to tear down her down, you SICKOS!

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sweet jumping MARY AND JOSEPH!! Let MTG give the old lady a BATH!! You know she’d give HERSELF a bath if she could!! But she CAN’T!! So let MTG DO IT!! You think she LIKES smelling that way?!! For GOD’S SAKES, have some COMPASSION!! Good.. Lord..!

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https://i.imgur.com/vZ186jB.jpg

and yes we enjoyed beer pong, everyone did!

dammit, that second to last one was supposed to be

https://i.imgur.com/77zGnoR.jpg

you have to imagine the golden boy doing the "i am so fucking proud to be brave in public" face as lindsey serves justice

horrifying, thank you

is based on a horrifying true story

i think i'm going to post the same thing on twitter, so get your mute buttons out

sex dungeon

Well I hope she like plant-based beer because that's all there is these days

btw KM - did you get retweeted by Noname yesterday?

god i hope not, i believe i was shitposting even more than normal yesterday! although, i did "like" one of her tweets yesterday, so maybe twitter did the thing where it let you know that i liked it?

i'm pretty sure you did - i saw it but then when i tried to click the tweet the tweet of yours was deleted

i did not see the full twitter handle of the person she was retweeting but it was yours up until it cutoff

Maybe it was

@weinventory
Independent inventory company providing objective inventories, check-ins, check-outs, mid-term reports, covering Surrey, Hampshire and Sussex

that seems like a good follow, especially for people in the inventory business!

the only thing i remember deleting yesterday was a follow-up to this important message:

I took a few weeks off Twitter to do a residency/retreat regarding NFTs. Turns out that everyone that supports them should be eating shit! documentation to follow

— Zach TBD (@weinventyou) May 13, 2021

i then posted a link to foundation.app, a devastating burn on the company and cryptocommunity. however, no one responded and i didn't like the idea of ever directly linking to them without smartass commentary in the same tweet. so maybe she retweeted the foundation.app tweet? that would be weird. but also, it illustrates the problem of having a tweet that's just a link to a shitty community full of people who think the world needs more financial speculation that is based upon magical thinking - even if it gets picked up by someone on the level of noname, it lacks the context of the other message. so i admit, i did delete it.

i hope that i didn't delete something really dumb and then she retweeted it as an example of how dumb some people can be! that would suck, and i would feel like chris christie re: springsteen

it all comes back to US politics, you see

Oh no:

President Biden on Friday signed an executive order revoking Trump's order that established a "National Garden of American Heroes" that called for erecting statues of hundreds of prominent Americans.
The order called for the garden to be built by July 4, 2026. But with Biden's order on Friday, the park will not be constructed.

I had not heard of this until now.

instead we will build a National Garden of American Turds

The original executive order listed 31 historical figures as examples of those who would receive a statue in the Garden.[2] On January 18, 2021—two days before leaving office—Trump signed a new executive order listing 244 historical figures, including all 31 previously named, of those who would receive statues.[15][16][17][18] The revised list included 192 men and 52 women.[11] Names marked with an asterisk (*) were included in the original executive order.

Ansel Adams
Samuel Adams
John Adams*
Muhammad Ali
Luis Walter Alvarez
Susan B. Anthony*
Hannah Arendt
Louis Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
Crispus Attucks
John James Audubon
Lauren Bacall
Clara Barton*
Todd Beamer
Alexander Graham Bell
Roy Benavidez
Ingrid Bergman
Irving Berlin
Humphrey Bogart
Daniel Boone*
Norman Borlaug
William Bradford
Herb Brooks
Kobe Bryant
William F. Buckley Jr.
Sitting Bull
Frank Capra
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Carroll
John Carroll
George Washington Carver
Johnny Cash
Joseph H. De Castro
Joshua Chamberlain*
Whittaker Chambers
Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman
Ray Charles
Julia Child
Gordon Chung-Hoon
William Clark
Henry Clay*
Roberto Clemente
Grover Cleveland
Red Cloud
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Nat King Cole
Samuel Colt
Christopher Columbus
Calvin Coolidge
James Fenimore Cooper
Davy Crockett*
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Miles Davis
Dorothy Day
Emily Dickinson
Walt Disney
William J. Donovan
Jimmy Doolittle
Desmond Doss
Frederick Douglass*
Herbert Henry Dow
Katharine Drexel
Peter Drucker
Amelia Earhart*
Thomas Edison
Jonathan Edwards
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Duke Ellington
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Medgar Evers
David Farragut
Mary Fields
Henry Ford
George L. Fox
Aretha Franklin
Benjamin Franklin*
Milton Friedman
Robert Frost
Gabby Gabreski
Bernardo de Gálvez
Lou Gehrig
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Cass Gilbert
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John Glenn
Barry Goldwater
Samuel Gompers
Alexander D. Goode
R. C. Gorman
Billy Graham*
Ulysses S. Grant
Nellie Gray
Nathanael Greene
Woody Guthrie
Nathan Hale
William Halsey Jr.
Alexander Hamilton*
Ira Hayes
Hans Christian Heg
Ernest Hemingway
Patrick Henry
Charlton Heston
Alfred Hitchcock
Billie Holiday
Bob Hope
Johns Hopkins
Grace Hopper
Sam Houston
Whitney Houston
Julia Ward Howe
Edwin Hubble
Daniel Inouye
Andrew Jackson
Robert H. Jackson
Mary Jackson
John Jay
Thomas Jefferson*
Steve Jobs
Katherine Johnson
Barbara Jordan
Chief Joseph
Elia Kazan
Helen Keller
John F. Kennedy
Francis Scott Key
Martin Luther King Jr.*
Coretta Scott King
Russell Kirk
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Henry Knox
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Harper Lee
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Meriwether Lewis
Abraham Lincoln*
Vince Lombardi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Clare Boothe Luce
Douglas MacArthur*
Dolley Madison*
James Madison*
George Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
William Mayo
Christa McAuliffe*
William McKinley
Louise McManus
Herman Melville
Thomas Merton
Billy Mitchell
George P. Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
Samuel Morse
Lucretia Mott
John Muir
Audie Murphy*
Edward R. Murrow
John Neumann
John von Neumann
Annie Oakley
Jesse Owens
Rosa Parks
George S. Patton Jr.*
Charles Willson Peale
William Penn
Oliver Hazard Perry
John J. Pershing
Edgar Allan Poe
Clark V. Poling
John Russell Pope
Elvis Presley
Jeannette Rankin
Ronald Reagan*
Walter Reed
William Rehnquist
Paul Revere
Henry Hobson Richardson
Hyman Rickover
Sally Ride
Matthew Ridgway
Jackie Robinson*
Norman Rockwell
Caesar Rodney
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Betsy Ross*
Babe Ruth
Sacagawea
Jonas Salk
John Singer Sargent
Antonin Scalia*
Norman Schwarzkopf
Junípero Serra
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Robert Gould Shaw
Fulton Sheen
Alan Shepard
Frank Sinatra
Bessie Smith
Margaret Chase Smith
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jimmy Stewart
Harriet Beecher Stowe*
Gilbert Stuart
Anne Sullivan
William Howard Taft
Maria Tallchief
Maxwell Taylor
Tecumseh
Kateri Tekakwitha
Shirley Temple
Nikola Tesla
Jefferson Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
Jim Thorpe
Augustus Tolton
Alex Trebek
Harry S. Truman
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman*
Mark Twain
Dorothy Vaughan
C. T. Vivian
Thomas Ustick Walter
Sam Walton
John P. Washington
Booker T. Washington*
George Washington*
John Wayne
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Phillis Wheatley
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
Frank Lloyd Wright
Orville Wright*
Wilbur Wright*
Alvin C. York
Cy Young
Lorenzo de Zavala

should have been a poll probably

impressed that Trump didn't accidentally nominate George Thorogood instead of Thurgood Marshall

Billy Mitchell
https://i.imgur.com/5gccKWb.jpg

fucking arrogant prick, met him at the Mall of America once

also fuck John Wayne

Trump's order said that the proposed garden would be managed by the Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes

lol so much of what they did was indistinguishable from an Onion article

some of those people are not really American but hey, Whitney Houston!

Florida!

We can place Matt Gaetz in a hotel room snorting cocaine with an escort, according to two sources.

A source also says Joel Greenberg will testify that she’s one of 15+ women that Gaetz paid for sex.https://t.co/Gaffy2jibz

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 14, 2021

The tweet itself hides a deeper issue for Gaetz, really:

But what distinguishes this woman, Megan Zalonka, is that she turned her relationship with Greenberg into a taxpayer-funded no-show job that earned her an estimated $7,000 to $17,500, according to three sources and corresponding government records obtained by The Daily Beast.