And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

Title from here.

Good morning!

If anyone’s wondering, Trump — who by the way will no longer be president when the next monthly thread starts — has started 2021 with one generic all-caps happy new year tweet, and three retweets of OANN video clips about how he won the election and will surely remain in office.

CNN's lead story this morning made me laugh: "There Will Be 20 More Days of Trump and He Will Be on Fire."

https://media3.giphy.com/media/1AipN9c8gXLO4c36bR/200.gif

what is that face that paul ryan made during that State of the Union?

he kept making it during the entire thing, i remember

pence's face (in that gif) is like "trump is telling us the deep perfect truths, things that may be uncomfortable to hear but which we must carefully consider"

ryan's is...?

"I have water in my ear"

"if i keep the water in my ear for a long time, it gets really hot"

Another truly intriguing headline from CNN: "With Trump a No-Show, Mar-a-Lago Guests Left to Party Maskless with Rudy Giuliani and Vanilla Ice."

I don't usually pay attention to the intricacies of procedural matters, but why did Bernie Sanders give up on his idea to filibuster the defense-bill override to get a vote on the $2,000? Seemed like a good idea.

I thought they voted against holding up the NDAA yesterday because of the fear that “Dems are trying to hold up troop salaries” is a potentially bad political message around Xmas especially with the insane President asking the military to do a coup for him but voters generally don’t care about procedural stuff imo.

So is anybody else having massive problems with the Postal Service? It’s been much worse than when everyone was complaining last summer. The USPS keep blaming “COVID and unprecedented volume” but haven’t seen any news reports about the volume, extended delays, or anything.

I have had first class letters take two weeks to be delivered only 50 miles and packages stuck in the same place for three weeks. But haven’t heard any media outrage. Do we just accept this a “normal” now? I’m old enough to remember when they guaranteed overnight delivery for first class mail in a 200 mile range.

Priority Mail packages seem to be fine for me but anything that's gone out first class or media mail has been a disaster.

Bernie didn't give up on the filibuster idea himself. McConnell invoked cloture, which passed 80-12 today, thus ending any possibility of debate on the NDAA veto.

I've had a couple of mailed payments disappear, including the first payment for my 2021 ACA plan. I had to scramble and make a quick online payment to make sure I had health insurance this year. xps

Speaking of, y'all gotten your stimulus checks/deposits yet?

I had a package take 3 weeks to come from Pittsburgh to NJ. But only the last two days were via USPS - everything else was via FedEx, which I can only assume has changed their name to "FedEx" to get the idea of "Express" out of people's minds, the way it's always rumored "KFC" calls themselves that because they're breeding mutant food-beasts that no longer qualify as "chicken."

My mom got her money; mine isn't here yet, but it'll be a physical check so I figure another week or so.

Xpost All of my household but me

But IRS has a closed account on file so that's why.

I may just get mine through filing my taxes

Got my $600 deposit today

Not only did we get our stim checks, we already spent them.

I spent mine repairing the wall i hit with the UHaul

:(

Yeah we had just ordered a new refrigerator so most of it went straight there. We also donated part of it. (3 checks, for 2 adults and 1 kid.)

I have had Priority Mail (2-3 days) take about 10 days for several recent packages.

Got my payment today

Oh! Just got it.

Swagger (def.): To represent America with pride, humility, and professionalism. We've done it. #Swagger pic.twitter.com/HleT4b4nif

— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 1, 2021

No one with the COVID got swagger like us

How it started / how it's going, Newsmax edition pic.twitter.com/hA98s7Q90i

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 2, 2021

moves like swagger

omg the Lin Wood stuff going down is CHOICE

Chaki (RIP) v. quick to point out the QAnon / Vanderpump Rules crossover happening as well (on twitter).

It's a little tragic that the only room where Pompeo won't be the biggest asshole is any room occupied by his boss. He really does try so hard.

I feel like tweeting about the vice president facing a firing squad would usually get you a visit from the Secret Service.

I forget, is Wood actually working for/being paid by anybody in all this, or is he just off on his own?

He seems to be in the midst of a high-octane tiger blood manic episode/nervous breakdown atm. A very stable genius imo. #winning

This has an amazing detail: an agent became so enamored of the President’s agenda he quit the Service and became a policy advisor, helping to tear-gas the protestors at Lafayette Square.

Now he’s going back to the Service to train other agents. https://t.co/iS4CR78HAW

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) December 31, 2020

and sleepy joe will get the credit

Including that Louie Gohmert case that was thrown out yesterday, I wonder what the W-L record now is for post-election court challenges (whether directly initiated by Trump or by someone else on his behalf). They won a minor one early on, and have since lost every single one. I'm totally serious: as a final twisting-the-knife-in-deep farewell, I'd love for some kind of recognition on this page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_streak

Every entry is for a sports record, but come on, Wikipedia, show some imagination.

I love that GYBE! live bootleg- "There Will Be 20 More Days of Trump and He Will Be on Fire."

Mitch McConnell’s Louisville Home Spray Painted With ‘Where’s My Money?’ https://t.co/0hdXxgcSOw

— 89.3 WFPL News (@WFPLNews) January 2, 2021

Clemenza, Marc Eliason twitspacebook is generally good at providing a running total, currently 1-60.

Trump and his allies lost 60 cases:
⚖️In state and federal courts
⚖️In trial and appellate courts
⚖️On the merits and for lack of standing.
⚖️Before judges appointed by Trump and others
⚖️Before judges elected in red and blue states

And they only won 1.https://t.co/XBkKKEmG2Q https://t.co/bgg1ehlkyV

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 2, 2021

I'm sure that when such an "emergency audit" turned up the exact same results as every other audit of the elections, that would definitely satisfy all these yowling idiots that it was a fair and square vote. For sure, no question. All they're looking for is a fair investigation.

why would you be opposed to an EMERGENCY AUDIT unless you have something to hide

Don't know if it's the go to response to the court case W-L record but just saw someone online give this one: the courts don't even want to hear these cases, because they have no interest in getting involved in overturning election results, even if it's just sooooo obvious the Dems cheated.
Cognitive dissonance is a mutha.

Another truly intriguing headline from CNN: "With Trump a No-Show, Mar-a-Lago Guests Left to Party Maskless with Rudy Giuliani and Vanilla Ice."

I've never changed my display name once in 10 years here, and I don't plan to do so now. But if I ever did, "Partying Maskless with Rudy Giuliani and Vanilla Ice" would be just fine.

Y'know, the absolute absurdity of our times comes in both hilarious and tragic forms, and that news story manages to be both.

in your honour, clemenza

xp

Good job--too good to waste.

I will periodically choose to engage with some random Facebooker spouting obvious untruths in the comments on a news story, just to vent a little. Today it was a guy convinced that the “alternate” slates of electors sent by some Republicans are going to be magically recognized on Wednesday, flipping the election. I explained to him that those are not real electors and were not designated by their state legislatures. He insisted that, no, he had watched it with his own eyes and the legislatures sent two sets of electors. He was laughing about what a rude surprise I am in for. It remains astounding to me how many people not only say this kind of stuff but give every sign of believing it on a deep level.

the funny thing about "lol you'll be sorry on <date>" folk is they disappear after they're proven wrong, pretty much forever

He could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and taxidermy somebody and he wouldn't lose voters.

Now imagining Trump in a trophy hall full of taxidermied underlings.

(Xpost)

But seriously, folks, if you're working for Trump at this point you probably have a fetish for getting stiffed.

honestly, the year rudy has had....really amazing, borat was not even three months ago

better than getting stuffed

i bet trump really hated the hair dye melting off his head...that seems like the type of thing he would fixate on, that people were laughing at rudy

Whereas Rudy, the melting farting snot-smearing mess, seems utterly oblivious to the spectacle he's made.

There was the report of Trump watching TV and complaining that all the Capital coup crew looked "low class," but where has he been? His purportedly *high* class people, like Rudy, look like shit or loons. Those people at the Capital were no different from his usual rally crowds. What was the line Lou Reed gave for wearing sunglasses inside? Because he couldn't stand the sight of his audience?

Trump thinking anything is “low class” is inherently hilarious.

"These low class people need a high class Las Vegas makeover! Give them some coupons for the buffet and magic show we'll get to work."

Guys.

One week.

One. Week.

"It's been ... "

I wonder if he thinks he's getting his twitter account back after he's out of office?

Good morning?

Wait what?

xpost Usually. Though it's sometimes downhill from there.

[Hey - the size + attention combo of this thread is making it a bit heavy on the server. Would someone please make a new one in the next couple of days/thousand posts?]

Must be all those millions of illegal immigrants posting.

Bookmarks really do help.

Must be all those millions of illegal immigrants posting.

New board description.

aight let's help stet out, what to name new thread

please tell your lovers and friends that russia, don, and rudy had to do it again

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Ixnay on the oogaloobay

all quiet on the bully pulpit?

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President sonned in a twitter beef

hot shits part deux

Alamos in the world wont save you now

like, I was just thinking taht the one drag of all media having been removed from the orange one was taht there were not going to be any obvious malapropisms or stupid comments from him to name a thread after.
So hence All Quiet On the Bully Pulpit

Here's my vote for a thread title that neither names nor alludes to the choad who's soon to be ousted.

some habits are hard to break

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I like it

End of an error

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thank you DJP