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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Women's Rights / A Woman's Place Is In The House / Saturday Morning Open Thread: Stand Proud

Saturday Morning Open Thread: Stand Proud

by Anne Laurie|  April 3, 20217:35 am| 150 Comments

This post is in: A Woman's Place Is In The House, Civil Rights, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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The most important advice that I could ever give to young queer people is to pay attention to the people who have always been there for us and ignore the people who think we are a distraction. Queer rights matter. Queer lives matter. Queer happiness matters. https://t.co/Wvms68B7O6

— White Boy Bummer ???????? (@SJGrunewald) April 1, 2021

Deb Haaland, the first Indigenous American to become a Cabinet secretary in U.S. history, is creating a unit within the Dept of the Interior to investigate the crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans and Alaska Natives. pic.twitter.com/5TDfk6l9Qh

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 3, 2021

Schoolgirls receive video call from former US first lady Michelle Obama https://t.co/99juYdA64r

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 2, 2021

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 7:50 am

    Only the best people. Really, this time.

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    April 3, 2021 at 7:52 am

    Good Morning Everyone ???

  3. 3.

    rikyrah

    April 3, 2021 at 7:52 am

    I love Forever FLOTUS ???

  4. 4.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 7:53 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning.

  5. 5.

    rivers

    April 3, 2021 at 7:55 am

    Only 7:54 in the morning and I’ve already cried – over the Michelle Obama video call. What an amazing woman.

  6. 6.

    Jeffery

    April 3, 2021 at 7:57 am

    The Harris video made me cry.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 7:59 am

    All this crying. This is why I don’t click on stuff.

  8. 8.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 8:02 am

    Glenn Greenwald

    @ggreenwald

    Replying to
    @6ft4inches1
    and
    @RepMattGaetz

    What’s there to talk about? Someone leaked that there’s an investigation. He hasn’t been charged with any crimes, let alone convicted of them. Once the evidence is publicly available, then it will be rational to form opinions on it.

    12:00 PM · Apr 2, 2021·Twitter Web App

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    April 3, 2021 at 8:03 am

    Beware of the blob.

  10. 10.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 8:06 am

    Weird how a central figure from the Democrat Russia hoax is granted access to Navalny in order to harass him, minimize his confinement and disparage his claims.

    https://www.rt.com/russia/519977-butina-prison-visit-navalny/amp/

    The facility housing Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, described by one former convict as “inhumane” and “real hell,” is more like a “scout camp” than a jail. That’s according to Maria Butina, a former prisoner herself.

    Butina, who visited the prison colony near Moscow on Thursday, was found guilty in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the US. After almost a year in pre-trial detention, she spent five months in a Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, a minimum-security prison in Florida, before being deported to Moscow. Her visit to see Navalny, accompanied by cameras from RT’s Russian service, has been slammed by his supporters, with the opposition figure himself branding her a “propagandist” and a “parasite.”

    “I even asked him a question: does he understand the difference between a prison and a sanatorium?” Butina wrote on her Telegram channel. “I took a close look at the prison colony. It was almost exemplary, and compared to what I had seen, it was more like a scout camp.”

  11. 11.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 8:08 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    I’m sure he extended the same courtesy to Hillary Clinton.

  12. 12.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 8:10 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    This footage of her snarling at him:

    RT “reporter” Maria Butina in a confrontational exchange with @navalny (notable he is off camera He’s lost 17 lbs, suffering leg and back pain). While he describes the prison as tortuous, she is shocked. “This is torture? This is better than some rural Russian hotels.” ? https://t.co/GLa2QGt1qh— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) April 2, 2021

    She looks really angry. I almost expected her to take a swing at him.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 8:12 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Does Russia only have one apparatchik left?

  14. 14.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 8:15 am

    @germy:

    That was a lot of disdainful aggression toward her boy’s political prisoner.

    Sadly, nobody shanked her when she was in jail here.

  15. 15.

    debbie

    April 3, 2021 at 8:15 am

    @germy:

    Could the poor dear have confused rural Russian hotels with gulags? //

  16. 16.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 8:16 am

    @Baud:

    Not to mention his respectful avoidance of remarks on Hunter Biden.

  17. 17.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 8:18 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    In praising the prison camp amenities, she may have inadvertently done more damage to Putin’s already defensive posture in the face of growing frustration among Russians to a weakening economy and significant decline in wages.

    — Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) April 2, 2021

  18. 18.

    caphilldcne

    April 3, 2021 at 8:19 am

    The first legal marriages in the US didn’t happen til 2004. In the Netherlands, yes. The very 1st legal marriage was April 1, 2001. Harris is pretty rockin’ in that video but the timeline in the initial tweet is wrong.

  19. 19.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 8:21 am

    @debbie:

    She was very critical of prison conditions when she spent her own time in a slammer.

    Maria Butina on seeing Alexey @Navalny in prison: He is walking fine, other prisoners say he demands special treatment. She asked Navalny “if he understands the difference between a prison and a resort.” Her conclusion: “Be a man. If you did the crime, do the time.” pic.twitter.com/v8H2ADTesH

    — Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 2, 2021

    She became a prisoners' rights advocate on returning to Russia. Of course, she focuses on abuses in American prisons, not Russian ones.

    — Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 1, 2021

  20. 20.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 8:23 am

    @germy:

    As long as he remains useful to the blobby goons with matted back hair, heavy gold chains and grandiose gold mansions, he’ll remain in power.

  21. 21.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 8:24 am

    Meanwhile…

    Watch this space ? “An estimated 4,000 Russian troops have been dispatched to the border with the Ukraine, prompting the U.S. military’s Europe command to raise its watch level of the crisis to the highest possible level.” https://t.co/ubC7RPwp6r

    — Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) April 2, 2021

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 8:25 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Sadly, nobody shanked her when she was in jail here. 

    Ain’t that the truth!

  23. 23.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 8:26 am

    @germy:

    That woman is pure evil.

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 8:26 am

    @debbie: rural Russian “hotels”

  25. 25.

    Immanentize

    April 3, 2021 at 8:31 am

    Using Butina for that interview was genius level trolling of the US.  And look at all of you feeding the troll.

  26. 26.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 8:34 am

    @Immanentize:

    True, but wonder if it could penetrate McCarthy’s brain?

  27. 27.

    mali muso

    April 3, 2021 at 8:34 am

    If you want even more Michelle Obama excellence and you’ve got a kiddo (or even if not), I’d highly recommend the new Netflix show “Waffles and Mochi”. It’s kind of like Sesame Street meets No Reservations.  Lots of learning about where food comes from along with basic life lessons. And catchy tunes!

  28. 28.

    J R in WV

    April 3, 2021 at 8:34 am

    @rikyrah:

    Good morning!  ?

  29. 29.

    John S.

    April 3, 2021 at 8:40 am

    Such an obvious difference between Democrats and Republicans.

    For Michelle Obama, it’s an opportunity to provide inspiration and encouragement to young women.

    For Matt Gaetz, it’s an opportunity to sample the merchandise.

  30. 30.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 8:41 am

    Ivanka Trump’s flagship policy program slammed by government auditors

    The Government Accountability Office has issued a damning report about the implementation of legislation supporting Ivanka Trump’s signature women’s empowerment initiative, from her time as an adviser to her father, President Donald Trump.

    As Ivanka Trump traveled the world talking up the whole-of-government Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, deep problems were developing in roll out of the bipartisan Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018 at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
    …………………………
    One of the 10 agencies involved was the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is mandated to allocate $265 million a year for support to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises under the WEEE Act. Half of the money is required to go to women, half to the very poor (some overlap between the two groups is expected).

    While Trump touted W-GDP as a cohesive program “enabling us to rigorously track the execution and the efficacy of the money that we are spending,” the GAO’s 14-month audit demonstrates that, at least at USAID, the opposite was happening.

    While USAID launched at least 19 new women’s empowerment programs in 2019 alone, there were extensive failures in both the targeting of the money, and the measurement of its impact.

    USAID was unable to say what proportion of funds went to the very poor, and women-owned and managed businesses. Shockingly, the agency couldn’t even define what actually constitutes a business owned and run by women, the GAO concluded.

    I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

  31. 31.

    Immanentize

    April 3, 2021 at 8:42 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Kevin?  Or Charlie?

  32. 32.

    Immanentize

    April 3, 2021 at 8:44 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I sometimes worry that just too many things shock you and that one day you will be absolutely shocked into taking a nap.

  33. 33.

    debbie

    April 3, 2021 at 8:44 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Wonder how many trademarks Ivanka was able to pick up as she toured the world to “tout” her initiative? //

  34. 34.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 8:47 am

    @Immanentize: xxxzzyzyzzgghdanrt… Huh? What? Sorry, I fell asleep.

  35. 35.

    Anne Laurie

    April 3, 2021 at 8:50 am

    Some people say that a 37-year-old who married a 19-year-old is bound to be a little touchy about ephebophilia jokes…

  36. 36.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 8:51 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Ivanka is a woman. She owns a business.  Sounds legit to me.

  37. 37.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 8:53 am

    A not so “Heh” look at “Women’s History Month” 2021 from the Daily Show.

  38. 38.

    rikyrah

    April 3, 2021 at 8:54 am

    @germy:

    She is EXACTLY who I thought she was.

  39. 39.

    Ken

    April 3, 2021 at 8:54 am

    @Anne Laurie: Wait, who?  I thought Gaetz wasn’t married, though he has a beard fiancee. Or maybe had, depending on the next news dump.

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 8:54 am

    @mali muso: Added.

  41. 41.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 8:56 am

    @rikyrah:

    Yes.  No surprise.

  42. 42.

    zhena gogolia

    April 3, 2021 at 8:56 am

    @Ken:

    I think she’s referring to Greenwald.

  43. 43.

    rikyrah

    April 3, 2021 at 8:57 am

    Explain it Black Jesus ????

     

     

     

    Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim on Chinese immigrants: “I don't want them here at all. I can say that because I’m Korean.They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don’t hold themselves accountable.” pic.twitter.com/sOewjgfSDY— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 3, 2021

  44. 44.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 8:58 am

    @Baud: Hmmm… I think the jury is still out on whether she is a woman or an AI generated hologram.

  45. 45.

    Ken

    April 3, 2021 at 8:58 am

    @zhena gogolia: Oh. I didn’t know about Greenwald.  Do I want to google it? Probably not. But is that sort of thing legal in Brazil?

  46. 46.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 8:59 am

    @Ken: Last I heard, the fiancee is now in the past tense.

  47. 47.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 9:01 am

    Essay from a teacher:

    The last four years, and the last year in particular, have reduced my circle of trust considerably. I get the feeling this is not an uncommon thing.

    Trump’s ascendancy was bad enough. Conservatives I’ve long disagreed with but respected showed me that deep down they were indifferent (at best) to fascism as long as it delivered what they wanted. It’s made me question my trust in them, and even my trust in my own ability to see people for who they are. I at least thought (naively) back in 2016 that Trump’s behavior once he took power might alienate them, but they gleefully doubled down. All of the lawbreaking, racism, family separations, and hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths from COVID only strengthened their ardor. The naked attempt to overthrow democracy on January 6th and the weeks leading up to the insurrection was met with silence (at best) or obfuscations and what-aboutism.

    Despite all of that, COVID has eroded my trust in others far more. Every day I have commuted by train I have had to ride with people nose-hanging, chin-strapping, or outright refusing to wear masks. Every scroll through social media shows all the trips and visits and parties made with complete disinterest for the well-being of others. So many conversations reveal a lack of concern with the virus or even denial of its potency. Multiple people have told me of friends dying after contracting COVID, then sharply telling me “but that’s NOT what killed them!” Others refuse to get vaccinated.

  48. 48.

    lowtechcyclist

    April 3, 2021 at 9:03 am

    @Jeffery:

    The Harris video made me cry.

    Me too.  How much that must have meant to so many people who had been excluded up until then from something as simple and fundamental as marriage, that all of us hetero people have always taken for granted.

    And now we have a President who supports trans rights, and recognized the Trans Day of Visibility this week.  We’re moving in the right direction again.

  49. 49.

    Ken

    April 3, 2021 at 9:04 am

    @rikyrah: Sery Kim on Chinese immigrants: “I don’t want them here at all. I can say that because I’m Korean.

    Dude, the anti-Chinese mob’s not going to get to you and yell “This one’s OK, he’s Korean”.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 9:04 am

    @Ken:

    Oh. I didn’t know about Greenwald.  Do I want to google it? 

    No clue, but ask yourself if your weekend is going pretty well so far.

  51. 51.

    MagdaInBlack

    April 3, 2021 at 9:06 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I would certainly hope so.

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 9:06 am

    @Ken: “It’s cool.  I can totally be racist towards Chinese people because I’m Asian too.  And if you disagree, it’s because you’re racist!”

  53. 53.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 9:07 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    It’s a daisy chain of racism!

  54. 54.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    April 3, 2021 at 9:08 am

    My editor and I did a joint interview with blogger Rob Kent which in now on You Tube. I just started watching it and omg when did I start looking like my mother???

  55. 55.

    John S.

    April 3, 2021 at 9:10 am

    @Ken: It just goes to show you how warped their perception is. A Korean person should know better than to draw equivalence between being Chinese and Korean.

    Thats like saying it’s ok for a person from England to slag on someone from Germany… because they’re British.

  56. 56.

    Immanentize

    April 3, 2021 at 9:11 am

    @Anne Laurie:.  37/19.  This violates the old French rule that your partner cannot be younger than half your age plus seven.

  57. 57.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 9:12 am

    @John S.:

    Thats like saying it’s ok for a person from England to slag on someone from Germany… because they’re British.

    They do that all the time!

  58. 58.

    MagdaInBlack

    April 3, 2021 at 9:12 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: That really is something isn’t it! I see my mother every time I look in the mirror. Weird and comforting at the same time.

  59. 59.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 9:14 am

    @John S.:

    Reminds me of the Dave Chapelle monologue about racism.  He said Asians are cool with everyone… except other Asians.

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

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 3, 2021 at 9:17 am

    @Baud:  The Germans started it.

  61. 61.

    Ken

    April 3, 2021 at 9:21 am

    @Baud: In fairness, the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is German, and by British law the throne is reserved to descendants of Sophia of Hannover. So criticizing the Germans is practically like criticizing other Britons.

  62. 62.

    zhena gogolia

    April 3, 2021 at 9:25 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    You’re cute!

  63. 63.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    April 3, 2021 at 9:26 am

    @zhena gogolia: I’m old!

  64. 64.

    Amir Khalid

    April 3, 2021 at 9:35 am

    @germy:
    In my experience, Asians can also be shockingly racist toward black people. African students started coming to Malaysia for higher education around the turn of the millennium, attracted by the private universities that charged a relatively low tuition and the low cost of living here. And they complained a lot about how Malaysians treated them.​

  65. 65.

    WereBear

    April 3, 2021 at 9:38 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: omg when did I start looking like my mother???

     
    When I used her strategy to hide the gray and went blonde :)

    Now, pandemically, I’m going to give it up because Mr WereBear loved my chestnut locks and I can highlight it myself.

    But what’s seen can’t be unseen…

  66. 66.

    ThresherK

    April 3, 2021 at 9:43 am

    @rikyrah: Never heard of this person before, but they really, really sound like a TX GOPer. (Chinese/Korean history in the last century is a subject of its own but she has quite a take.)

    I wonder if this Korean-American thinks she’ll be spared by American bigots because she’s one of the “good ones”.

  67. 67.

    mali muso

    April 3, 2021 at 9:43 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Hope you like it!  I’m not sure who is enjoying it more…me or my 4 year old. lol

  68. 68.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 9:50 am

    @mali muso:

    I’m not sure who is enjoying it more…me or my 4 year old. lol 

    Storybots TA-DAHAAA!!!  (Bang is a really (cough!) laid-back dude.)

  69. 69.

    gene108

    April 3, 2021 at 9:50 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Lucky you.

    I don’t really look like anyone in family.

  70. 70.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 9:51 am

    @WereBear: 

    So long as he never remarks on how you’re starting to resemble her – that is the uncrossable line, and even a lunkhead like me knows that.

  71. 71.

    Uncle Cosmo

    April 3, 2021 at 9:52 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:@MagdaInBlack: I see my mother every time I look in the mirror. Weird and comforting at the same time.​

    When I was referred to cardiology a few years back I chose to see the guy who’d taken care of my father for 20 years. Hadn’t seen him since Dad’s viewing 15 years before. When I walked in he was standing behind the reception counter reading a chart & when he looked up he said, You look exactly like your father.

    Well, I do, a little. More than a little. But the curious thing is that from about 15 through my late 40s I resembled the males in my mother’s family, which isn’t even from the same part of Italy. One cousin looked so much like me that when one of my HS friends met him it freaked him out.​ Go figger.

  72. 72.

    Frankensteinbeck

    April 3, 2021 at 9:54 am

    @germy:

    I was not surprised.  For twelve years I’ve been here, hearing people say Republicans start caring when it affects them, and that the leaders are deceiving the rubes into voting against their interests.  No.  It has been a hate cult and a suicide pact for decades.  If a Republican voter is nice to you, it’s a mask because they haven’t labeled you Other.  Trump and COVID only made you see it.

    @germy:

    This.  The atrocities of bigotry between Asian ethnicities in the last century make anything in the West pale in comparison.  And yes, that was a damned high bar to clear.

  73. 73.

    gene108

    April 3, 2021 at 9:55 am

    @ThresherK:

    I doubt she thinks the average violent racist in America can tell the difference between Korean and Chinese people.

    It still doesn’t mean she can’t have her ethnic or nationalist based grudges.

  74. 74.

    mali muso

    April 3, 2021 at 9:55 am

    @mrmoshpotato: ​
      LOL! I love me some StoryBots. “Sheep, sheep-a-deep, sheep-a-deep…”

  75. 75.

    Frankensteinbeck

    April 3, 2021 at 9:58 am

    @gene108:

    Heh.  Like I was just saying, hate is more important to Republicans than self-preservation.

  76. 76.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 9:58 am

    Glenn is just asking questions is all. He never seems to find any white supremacy in existence.

    Glenn Greenwald

    @ggreenwald

    Replying to
    @ggreenwald

    One of the 87 times I’ve trended in the last 6 weeks as a villain is because I asked whether there was evidence for
    @DrIbram
    ‘s decree that it is “white supremacy” driving anti-Asian violence (there isn’t). This is all I said:

    Quote Tweet

    Glenn Greenwald

    @ggreenwald

    · Mar 17

    Has anyone provided an iota of evidence that what is driving this horrific surge of anti-Asian violence is “white supremacist domestic terror”? That would require data showing who is primarily perpetrating the violence and with what motive. Where is that? twitter.com/DrIbram/status…
    Show this thread

    9:19 AM · Apr 3, 2021·Twitter Web App

  77. 77.

    Ken

    April 3, 2021 at 9:59 am

    @gene108: I don’t really look like anyone in family.

    Insert usual punchline about the milkman.

    My favorite joke along those lines is the unveiling of a new computer that can supposedly answer any question. A guy steps up and asks “Where is my father right now?” The computer responds YOUR FATHER IS FISHING IN CANADA.  The guy says, “Wrong, my father died six years ago.” The computer responds YOUR MOTHER'S HUSBAND DIED SIX YEARS AGO. YOUR FATHER IS FISHING IN CANADA.

  78. 78.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 10:02 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Ha!  I’ve always looked like my mother.  I’ll check out the interview.

  79. 79.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 10:04 am

    @gene108: My brothers and I look like the same person at different ages. I’m sure my youngest brother looks at his 2 older siblings and says, “Oh God, please no.”

  80. 80.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 10:04 am

    @Ken:

    “When you give your parents a 23&Me kit for a Christmas gift and your mom runs from the room in tears….”

  81. 81.

    rikyrah

    April 3, 2021 at 10:05 am

    Don’t negotiate in bad faith. Don’t even bother with the GOP. If they had wanted to pass an actual Infrastructure Plan, they could have when they had the WH and both Houses of Congress. They didn’t, because they never wanted to. ……………………………………………………………….

     

    Here’s how Biden’s infrastructure plan could get passed through Congress

    The three scenarios for how Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan could become law, explained.

    By Ella [email protected] Apr 2, 2021, 12:30pm EDT https://www.vox.com/22361959/biden-infrastructure-jobs-plan-congress

     

    With the first part of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan officially released, Congress has a massive priority set for the rest of the summer. The three scenarios to pass Biden’s infrastructure plan, explained At the top, it’s worth noting that it’s still very early, and a lot could — and probably will — change between now and when Biden’s plan is officially introduced in the US House as a bill. Then, there will be rounds of negotiations between the House and Senate to get to a final product.

     

    But until we know more, here are the rough scenarios for how Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bills could become law.

     

    Scenario 1 Democrats lump everything together in one budget reconciliation bill.

     

    Budget reconciliation, an arcane procedural tool in the Senate, allows the majority party to bypass the 60-vote threshold of the Senate filibuster and pass certain kinds of bills on a simple majority. As the name suggests, budget reconciliation can only be used for things that impact the federal budget. As Vox’s Dylan Scott has previously explained, each budget resolution is able to set up three bills, though they are typically lumped together in one large package, meaning lawmakers usually have one chance to use budget reconciliation every fiscal year: The budget resolution can, in theory, set up three separate reconciliation bills: one for taxes, one for spending, and one for the federal debt limit. However, in practice, most reconciliation bills have combined taxes and spending into a single piece of legislation. That’s the reason that, historically, the Senate has usually been limited to passing only one budget reconciliation bill in a given fiscal year.

  82. 82.

    Kay

    April 3, 2021 at 10:05 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Independent journalist joins ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ with his reaction and analysis of potential crimes by Biden family

    Greenwald spent 2 months in the run up to the election doing nothing BUT speculating on Hunter Biden’s crimes and Hunter Biden is a private citizen- a different person than Joe Biden – which is why Greenwald had to broaden his fake prosecutorial probe to include speculation/accusations re: the whole “Biden family”.

  83. 83.

    WereBear

    April 3, 2021 at 10:07 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Oh, if he never did it during the blond phase, he’s probably not going to do it :)

    He grew up and worked in DC. Got diplomacy DOWN.

  84. 84.

    WereBear

    April 3, 2021 at 10:09 am

    @Uncle Cosmo: It’s the blend. Growing up, my family swore I took after my dad’s side, by far the most.

    Now, they start going, “You know, I see your mom…”

  85. 85.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    April 3, 2021 at 10:10 am

    @MomSense: It’s really long. It was fun to do but I suspect it will wear out your patience

  86. 86.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 10:11 am

    @Kay:

    Literally everything Greenwald does is in bad faith.

  87. 87.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 10:11 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    He’s so predictable.

  88. 88.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 10:13 am

    @WereBear:

    I once made the error of countering a request that I perceived as “high maintenance” as “that sounds kinda like something your mom would have wanted”.

    Never again….

  89. 89.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 10:14 am

    A good interview/profile:
    Minnie Driver: ‘I did not have the appetite to be a big movie star’

    We are talking over video chat, Driver from her family home in London, to which she has temporarily decamped after decades away in Los Angeles. She apologises for how nice she looks, the sort of apology that can only be made after a year in lockdown. “I’m only dolled up like this because I just did the photoshoot,” she explains. “And my fucking phone, the facial recognition thing wouldn’t recognise me. It was like, ‘Where’s the hag who usually opens the phone? Who’s this person?’ I often feel insulted by my own phone, but that was legendary.”

  90. 90.

    delk

    April 3, 2021 at 10:16 am

    So I guess to avoid a beating all a Chinese person has to yell is I’m Korean.

  91. 91.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 10:16 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Bluegal from The professional left podcast discussed booktube and suggested some people she follows so I’ve been listening to a lot of booktube discussions and I really enjoy them.

  92. 92.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    April 3, 2021 at 10:16 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Wait, really? He decided that cover story wasn’t working for him and fired her? Or he hadn’t paid her so she quit the acting gig?

  93. 93.

    jeffreyw

    April 3, 2021 at 10:18 am

    Grumble.  We were watching Captain Marleau on Prime and enjoying it.  We were up to ep. 6 and tuned in last night to find that it was now available only with a MHz Choice subscription.  There are too many episodes left to finish the 2 seasons in the week long free trial offer.  Bastards

  94. 94.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 10:18 am

    “Christ has called me” Former Sec. of State Pompeo

    Don’t get your hopes up like I did.

  95. 95.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 3, 2021 at 10:19 am

    @MomSense:

    Now he’s retweeting Byron York’s predictable objection to journalistic and corporate opposition to voter suppression and support of passage of HR1…

    Glenn Greenwald Retweeted

    Byron York

    @ByronYork

    Incredible that CBS News would publish pure political advocacy. This article advocates donor boycotts of specific political figures, spreads political propaganda, and urges passage of a specific bill (HR1). From a news division. Incredible.

    Quote Tweet

    CBS News

    @CBSNews

    · 11h

    3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting law https://cbsn.ws/3dyF2E8

    7:20 AM · Apr 3, 2021·Twitter Web App

  96. 96.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 10:21 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: It was just a single sentence in an article, no explanations. I didn’t even take much note of it except to think, “Who in their right mind would say, ‘Yes.’?”

  97. 97.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 10:21 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: 
    The white supremacy has been the one constant in his career.

  98. 98.

    Frankensteinbeck

    April 3, 2021 at 10:24 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Pompeo’s career in the Trump government made it pretty damn clear he’s a Christianist zealot of the most extreme order.

  99. 99.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 10:27 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: Yep, I was kinda hoping Christ had called him home. Not to be.

  100. 100.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 10:28 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: 

    “Christ has called me” Former Sec. of State Pompeo

    Oh really? Was every word or every other word an expletive?

  101. 101.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 10:32 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    A Christianist zealot and so arrogant. I hope the corruption he engaged in while SoS is properly investigated.

  102. 102.

    debbie

    April 3, 2021 at 10:33 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    I have learned to look in the mirror without seeing my face for that very reason!

  103. 103.

    raven

    April 3, 2021 at 10:34 am

    The moron Brian Kemp is having a presser at noon to whine about the “radical mob” that moved the All Star game!

  104. 104.

    Kay

    April 3, 2021 at 10:35 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    I think there’s genuine anguish in the more sophisticated Trumpist circles that Trump never even attempted an infrastructure plan. A less lazy President, one who even hired competent people, would have seen it as a no-brainer and made it a condition of signing the tax cuts for the wealthy.  Trump had all the leverage in the world with those tax cuts and he squandered it.

    It’s killing them that Biden is doing it.

  105. 105.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 10:36 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I didn’t realize Christ was selling extended auto warranties these days.

  106. 106.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 10:36 am

    @jeffreyw:

    My mom discovered a cache of British tv series on Hulu.  Have you checked to see if it is available on Hulu?

  107. 107.

    Mai Naem mobile

    April 3, 2021 at 10:37 am

    People talk about Barack Obama and the American Dream. I think Michelle Obama is the better description of the American Dream. She really came from humble beginnings. Barack was quite a few rungs above Michelle on the ladder. He’s a guy, his parents and grandparents were both well educated and, forget college, he went to one of the best high schools in the country. Not saying things were easy for Barack but Michele had  to overcome more obstacles.

  108. 108.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 10:37 am

    @MomSense:

    He’d be a nobody but for the fact that he arose out of left wing circles.

  109. 109.

    NotMax

    April 3, 2021 at 10:37 am

    @jeffreyw

    Only the first season was free with Prime, and that only for the month of March.

    If you scroll down (sometimes way down) the listings within Prime you’ll eventually find a category for “Shows To Sample This Month.” Always a mixed bag and always only included free for just the month, however some hidden nuggets do pop up on occasion. Have gotten into the habit of seeking out that category on the 2nd or 3rd of each month, as it sometimes doesn’t appear right away on the 1st.

  110. 110.

    Mai Naem mobile

    April 3, 2021 at 10:38 am

    @jeffreyw: i thought Brtibox had a free trial period as well.

  111. 111.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    April 3, 2021 at 10:38 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Greenwald has taken a sharp turn into right-wingville the last few years. He’s even gone partially neo-reactionary, using the “Cathedral” aspect of Neo-RX ideology to describe social media platforms banning literal Nazis on Twitter. He’s basically a white supremacist now he’s such a contrarian

  112. 112.

    debbie

    April 3, 2021 at 10:39 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    They never learned that freedom of speech is for EVERYONE, did they?  ?

  113. 113.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 10:45 am

    @raven: Yep, nothing more radical than a bunch of Billionaire pro sports team owners. Next thing you know they’re gonna storm the GA state capitol with a bunch of double breasted pinstripe lobbyists with wads of cash. The horror.

  114. 114.

    LurkerNoLonger

    April 3, 2021 at 10:46 am

    Cocaine, A Submarine and Cash… https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2021/04/02/cocaine-submarine-drug-trafficking/

    what a headline! How can you not read it?

  115. 115.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 3, 2021 at 10:46 am

    @Baud: Yeah, that guy never misses a mark.

  116. 116.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 10:49 am

    @Baud:

    Did he come out of left wing circles though?  He was a libertarian who was affiliated with a Koch think tank. He wrote about giving George W’s Iraq war the benefit of the doubt which he later vehemently denied even when people presented him with his own words in his own damn book.  He later changed his mind about the Iraq War when the W admin could no longer hide it had gone to shit. He fooled a lot of people into thinking he came out of left wing circles by bludgeoning anyone who dared bring up his actual record.
    I always considered him an opportunist/ratfucker.

  117. 117.

    Baud

    April 3, 2021 at 10:52 am

    @MomSense:

    I first heard about him from progressives who were attracted to him when he came out against Bush.  I don’t know his whole background, but that’s what I attribute to his original popularity.

  118. 118.

    WereBear

    April 3, 2021 at 10:53 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: LOL!

    At least you learned :)

  119. 119.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    April 3, 2021 at 10:55 am

    @jeffreyw: Looks like it’s a French series?

    I have a VPN that I can set to make it look like I’m from different countries. I can get French TV to think I’m in France, but the last time I tried to track down some show, I had to go through an extra subscription step that required a French mailing address, so that was the end of that.

    I found “Capitaine Marleau” at TV5Monde Etats-Unis (US). They say their channel is available through some US cable subscribers.

  120. 120.

    WaterGirl

    April 3, 2021 at 10:55 am

    @Baud:

    All this crying. This is why I don’t click on stuff.

    rotating tag!

  121. 121.

    The Dark Avenger

    April 3, 2021 at 10:56 am

    I can see the Spudlite, Luke, and his mom missing little Russ, but that’s about it.

  122. 122.

    WaterGirl

    April 3, 2021 at 11:00 am

    @mali muso:  I’m not even a full minute into the first episode, and I am hooked.  Ice for breakfast, ice for lunch, ice for dinner!

    And Waffles and Mochi are adorable!

  123. 123.

    WaterGirl

    April 3, 2021 at 11:03 am

    @rikyrah:

    Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim on Chinese immigrants: “I don’t want them here at all. I can say that because I’m Korean. I can say that because I’m a racist pig.  Vote for me.

    Fixed that for you.

  124. 124.

    Anonymous

    April 3, 2021 at 11:04 am

    @Ken: 

    I wish my wife looked more like my mother. Unfortunately she is a ringer for my Mother-in-law… go figure!

  125. 125.

    jeffreyw

    April 3, 2021 at 11:06 am

    @MomSense: I can’t find it on Hulu, and the finder app Reelgood is stymied to find it all.  Just Watch says no luck, sucks to be you.

  126. 126.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 11:08 am

    @Baud:

    He went to great lengths to erase his past opinions, actions and connections so he would be appealing to left wing circles.

  127. 127.

    jeffreyw

    April 3, 2021 at 11:13 am

    @NotMax: ​
     
    Thanks for the info and the tip.

  128. 128.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 11:14 am

    @Baud:

    @MomSense:

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Everyone feeling ok? – Spleenwald is actually being talked about here.

  129. 129.

    jeffreyw

    April 3, 2021 at 11:15 am

    @Mai Naem mobile: ​
     
    I have a BritBox sub. It’s not on there?

  130. 130.

    J R in WV

    April 3, 2021 at 11:15 am

    @MomSense:

    I read a few pieces he [GG] wrote back when he was  first on the web, poorly written enough that it was a lot of work figuring out what he intended to say. Soon gave up on him completely, a Russian tool when not being a Republican tool.

    ETA: Don’t recall where I read his stupid junk at first, as I say, long ago… More despicable as he ages, though. Or as I age…

  131. 131.

    sdhays

    April 3, 2021 at 11:20 am

    @J R in WV: I first encountered him on Salon.com, and my experience was similar to yours – poorly written, extremely long screeds with several poorly written, extremely long updates for each post. I gave up paying him any attention pretty quickly.

  132. 132.

    jeffreyw

    April 3, 2021 at 11:24 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: ​
     
    Nice catch, but we are cord cutters.

  133. 133.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 11:31 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    We used to talk about him here all the time.

  134. 134.

    Brachiator

    April 3, 2021 at 11:37 am

    @J R in WV:

    I read a few pieces he [GG] wrote back when he was first on the web, poorly written enough that it was a lot of work figuring out what he intended to say. Soon gave up on him completely

    Same here. I would occasionally come across comments here in Balloon Juice Land saying good things about GG, but I never saw a good reason for the admiration.

  135. 135.

    gwangung

    April 3, 2021 at 11:42 am

    @rikyrah: This woman has been disinvited to dim sum.

  136. 136.

    gwangung

    April 3, 2021 at 11:45 am

    @ThresherK:I wonder if this Korean-American thinks she’ll be spared by American bigots because she’s one of the “good ones”.

    Well, she’s been getting this pass all along (model minority and all), so….yeah.

  137. 137.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 3, 2021 at 11:52 am

    @MomSense: With how many expletives?

  138. 138.

    Kathleen

    April 3, 2021 at 12:14 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): He’s always been a white supremacist. Read about his client Matthew Hale.

  139. 139.

    StringOnAStick

    April 3, 2021 at 12:15 pm

    @J R in WV: Spleenwald was at Salon when he opposed W, that’s where he picked up a lefty following.  The only person I knew who was still into him  was the anarchist ex-friend who tried to convince me to join him in becoming a mens rights advocate, a guy I guarantee you voted for the orange clown because it would enhance the contradictions.  Ugh.  I never regret ending that friendship.

  140. 140.

    Kathleen

    April 3, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    @MomSense: He’s evil

  141. 141.

    lowtechcyclist

    April 3, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    @OzarkHillbilly: 

    “Christ has called me” Former Sec. of State Pompeo

    Don’t get your hopes up like I did.

    Nah, I know the difference between “Christ has called me” and “Christ has called me home.“

  142. 142.

    MomSense

    April 3, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    @Kathleen:

    Exactly.  With bonus recording of a conversation without permission.

  143. 143.

    Kay

    April 3, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    @MomSense:

    Years ago, I wrote something here about the financials that were released re: an entity he controlled, a non profit or something. Anyway, my comments were critical and at that time he had a woman working for or with him and she posted and we had an argument, in the comments, for like the next 12 hours :)

  144. 144.

    Kay

    April 3, 2021 at 12:59 pm

    Mona Holland, a lawyer who partnered with Greenwald

    I think this is her, although I believe it was just first names, so maybe not. Maybe another Mona.

  145. 145.

    Steeplejack

    April 3, 2021 at 1:15 pm

    @jeffreyw, @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Captain Marleau is only on MHz now; the first season may still be on Amazon Prime.

    The best site I have found for looking up what is on where is JustWatch. I use it exclusively for the search function.

  146. 146.

    Steeplejack

    April 3, 2021 at 1:19 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Should’ve searched for just “Marleau.” Foreign titles can be hinky.

  147. 147.

    jeffreyw

    April 3, 2021 at 1:25 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yeah, I added the e to captaine and got a hit.  Captain Marleau returned nothing on Reelgood.  I’ve bookmarked Just Watch.

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack

    April 3, 2021 at 1:29 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    I like JustWatch because it seems to show all the available options and distinguishes among streaming for “free” (with a subscription), renting and buying. If you really, really need something . . .

  149. 149.

    germy

    April 3, 2021 at 1:40 pm

    @Kay:

    I have a theory.

    Imani Gandy used to be a front pager here.  She was before my time, but from what I’ve read here she was driven out by some commenters who attacked her constantly.

    I have also read that GG used to appear here in the comments.

    My theory is GG was the one who launched the campaign against Imani, and drove her out.

  150. 150.

    Another Scott

    April 3, 2021 at 1:41 pm

    @Kay: Corner Stone and clayton talking about Mona.  Very strange 2012 thread about cats and blegs and such…

    [rassin’ frassin’ Visual mode default]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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