US Politics, March 2024: The house of illuminati will NOT be holding any other event in the foreseeable future.

excruciatingly coddled

Hell, they'll end up on his payroll, through a layer or two removed natch, to do his dirty work.

that eyepatch fuck will be attorney general

Crenshaw? Trump hates him I think.

No, isn't there a Proud Boy type with an eyepatch too? A real piece of shit?

Got like, 18 years in the clink for Jan. 6?

and for being a real piece of shit?

A piece of shit with an eyepatch.

Shot his own eye out?

Oath Keeper (lol) leader Stewart Rhodes. I forgot about the Oath Keepers!

They should at least take an oath to use firearms responsibly.

Oath Keepers were especially active in recruiting police. You have to figure most of their members are still in place, but laying low for now.

"stand back and stand by"

So how is it that Peter Navarro goes to jail but not Bannon?

bannon secretes an oil that allows him to slide between the bars

https://i0.wp.com/bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hobo-with-a-shotgun-review.jpg

Hell, they'll end up on his payroll, through a layer or two removed natch, to do his dirty work.

The silver lining in this scenario is that we know Trump would never actually pay them

I’ve gotta a pretty firm rule that I never celebrate people showing up for prison. And it’s because it’s a terrible (which isn’t to say it’s wrong or unnecessary) thing to see, even when it’s right and deserved. But this dude is really straining my system. I mean stfu already. https://t.co/ayeMAvmDdM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 19, 2024

He looks like he's been in prison for decades

In a sense he has.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/politics/alabama-dei-bill.html

Alabama Republicans pushed through a sprawling measure on Tuesday that would not only ban state funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs at public universities, local boards of education and government agencies, but also limit the teaching of “divisive concepts” surrounding race, gender and identity.

The bill passed with broad support in the State Legislature, but faced vehement opposition from student groups, civil rights advocates and Democrats who said it was a chilling attempt to undercut free speech and diversity efforts, especially given Alabama’s history of educational segregation and racism.

The bill also forbids public universities and colleges from allowing transgender people to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity...
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With the legislation, Alabama lawmakers join a broad, right-wing campaign that has targeted D.E.I. programs and initiatives, and has sought to roll back or limit efforts to expand racial diversity on college campuses across the country.

The prohibitions are largely focused on the teaching of “divisive concepts,” which the bill defines in part as assigning “fault, blame or bias” to any race, religion, gender or nationality. Other examples of divisive concepts include teaching that a person is “inherently responsible for actions committed in the past” or that a person should “accept, acknowledge, affirm or assent to a sense of guilt, complicity or a need to apologize” based on their race, religion, gender or background.

All of these anti-DEI bills ought to be shot down on basic 1st Amendment grounds because they are 100 percent content-based prohibitions. But who knows what to expect from the courts anymore. It’s just, how much more blatant could it be than fucking Alabama passing laws basically saying you can’t say anything about race that will make white people feel bad. The Confederacy ain’t dead.

Florida's initiative is basically dead because the courts stopped it.

I know this is an unpopular thing to say, and why it is, but it’s almost like many states in this country just don’t want me to ever visit them, spend money there, etc.

I feel like this kind of undermines the Biden impeachment effort, but maybe James Comer can explain how it actually helps

former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas: "From shortly after my arrest on October 9, 2019, to now, I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with you: The American people have been lied to by Trump, Giuliani, & various cohorts of individuals in govt and media positions." pic.twitter.com/q5aHzAk0HL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024

nah the New York Times will

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/17/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-gridiron-club-and-foundation-dinner-march-16-2024/

Of course, the big news this week is two candidates clinched their parties’ nomination for president. One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other is me. (Laughter and applause.)

Look, I’m running against the same guy that I beat in 2020. But don’t tell him. He thinks he’s running against Barack Obama. (Laughter.) That’s what he said.

And another big difference between us: I know what I value most. I’m Jill Biden’s husband, and I know her name. (Laughter and applause.)

he's a senile loser + they want to raise the retirement age seems like the right angle to me

I feel like this kind of undermines the Biden impeachment effort, but maybe James Comer can explain how it actually helps

our "conservative" friends are as emotionally mature as fifth graders, and "impeaching" joe biden is basically no different than trying to stigmatize him as a nerd who deserves to be bullied because popular "rich" kid trump says so. what a fucking country

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/congress-spending-bill-shutdown.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.eU0.cwqo.iiE_5czKbAcf&smid=url-share

Democrats and Republicans both highlighted victories in the painstakingly negotiated legislation. Republicans cited as victories funding for 2,000 new Border Patrol agents, additional detention beds run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a provision cutting off aid to the main United Nations agency that provides assistance to Palestinians. Democrats secured funding increases for federal child care and education programs, cancer and Alzheimer’s research.

and a provision cutting off aid to the main United Nations agency that provides assistance to Palestinians.

yep and it lasts until March 2025 for extra ghoulishness

it's also just insane that funding cancer research is a concession to the Dems. I know "GOP = death cult" got thrown around a lot during the height of Covid but sheesh they're really leaning in

the border stuff is also dismal. I genuinely don't see what the Ds have to lose taking a humane and compassionate stance on immigration, asylum, and refugees

(yes, I know they don't control the House)

People are already starting to come in through the northern border, I assume that will accelerate with these new border provisions

People are already starting to come in through the northern border, I assume that will accelerate with these new border provisions

Immigration leapfrog!

It always strikes me how, when US conservatives say they want to "close the border" they never mean the Canadian border or international flights into the USA. Just the border with our brown-skinned-majority neighbors.

One of the largest group of 'undocumenteds' are Canadians who overstayed their visas

But Trump did the “Muslim Ban”, which included airports. Anyway Republicans don’t get cancer cause they have an immune system, haw haw.

I'm still shocked that the Muslim ban was ruled constitutional

In the end, what he got was a ban on people from "darker," majority-Muslim countries, and in many instances only on permanent immigration from those countries.

In the end what he got was admiration and appreciation from Islamophobes everywhere.

Joe Manchin has a new position: He will no longer support a Biden judicial nominee unless they have at least one Republican vote. If they have no GOP votes, he’s a no.

Story on the Mangi nomination, with @frankthorp @kate_santaliz:https://t.co/qWTQv9kxPr pic.twitter.com/58O2b3lSoU

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 21, 2024

Joe puts another lump of coal in our Xmas stockings and Mitch gives him a big grin and a hug.

i'm gonna go row by his yacht and give this manchin guy a piece of my mind. i heard on the open sea there are no rules

In the end what he got was admiration and appreciation from Islamophobes everywhere.

Of course, and from white nationalists/supremacists as well. It's an intentional move against the perceived "great replacement."

i don't know where to put this but they were talking about it on the radio today. crazy! sadly, all i can think of is a netflix executive reading this and saying "hmmm..limited series idea..."

"Chinese organized crime “has taken over marijuana in Oklahoma and the United States,” Donnie Anderson, the director of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, said in an interview."

"Among the victims are thousands of Chinese immigrants, many of them smuggled across the Mexican border to toil in often abusive conditions at farms ringed by fences, surveillance cameras and guards with guns and machetes. A grim offshoot of this indentured servitude: Traffickers force Chinese immigrant women into prostitution for the bosses of the agricultural workforce."

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/03/20/kingfisher-county-ok-marijuana-farm-murders-chinese-organized-crime/73017293007/

they are also taking over tons and tons of regular farms in oklahoma. pretty soon they will just be growing nothing but weed there. the laws are weird in oklahoma. you can pretty much grow unlimited amounts of pot.

this might be old news to you guys. it sounded like fiction on the car radio today!

oof, news to me but not surprising

That does sound in line with every other thing that's ever happened in Oklahoma.

hey what about your government suing your beloved Apple you guys?? whose side are you on in this war? you know you wanted to marry steve jobs but you also have dreams where you are snuggling with merrick garland! me, i don't care either way. they both suck.