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You are here: Home / Politics / Biden Administration in Action / Friday Evening Open Thread: Hold On to the Good News

Friday Evening Open Thread: Hold On to the Good News

by Anne Laurie|  November 19, 20216:02 pm| 84 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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most of media are married to Dem doom/gloom

watch this clip for an unfiltered reality check https://t.co/fnBApCP5zm

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 19, 2021

The bill includes a monthly per-child cash payment of up to $300 for most parents, child care funding, universal pre-K, an extension of ACA subsidies and Medicare hearing benefits.

It also commits $555B toward combating climate change, the largest such effort in US history.

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 19, 2021

And with this bill @SpeakerPelosi becomes the greatest Speaker of the modern era, passing historic legislation (ACA, ARP, Infrastructure, BBB) with tiny margins. Let's also remember she supplied votes for TARP to save the US economy and twice impeached a lawless president.

— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 19, 2021

pic.twitter.com/2C1HSSopn2

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) November 19, 2021

The Build Back Better Act that just passed the House will provide universal pre-K, deliver tax cuts for the middle class, lower the costs of child care and health care, and launch an unprecedented effort to combat climate change.

It’s a win for the American people.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 19, 2021

And this morning, for 85 minutes, Vice-President Harris became the first woman to assume presidential powers (while President Biden underwent a colonoscopy).

Jen Psaki's with some great shade on Kevin McCarthy's 8.5-hour speech pic.twitter.com/TROhMiVLsJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 19, 2021

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  1. 1.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:05 pm

    ? We gonna build back better ? pic.twitter.com/RzcfMZ18m2

    — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 19, 2021

  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    November 19, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    He (McCarthy) cosplays Tienanmen Square? Is he tank dude? Does this make me objectively pro-tank?

    Love that Nancy SMASH uses the sunglasses gif on her own damn Twitter page.

  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    November 19, 2021 at 6:09 pm

    I love Jen, Nancy, and Kamala.

    ETA: Women are really good. Why does this country hate us so much?

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 6:09 pm

    I was hoping there would be a clip of Jen’s response to the McCarthy question.  It was so good.  Now I’m going to watch the clip even though I watched the press conference.  She made McCarthy look like the fool he is – at least to anyone who is connected with reality.

  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    November 19, 2021 at 6:10 pm

    Anne Laurie and WaterGirl are keeping me sane.

    ETA: If baud were here, he would be involved as well.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 19, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    I never ever ever tire of seeing the gif with Nancy Smash striding along and putting on her shades LIKE A BOSS.

  7. 7.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    We are hearing rumors that the front row of GOP hostages behind Kevin McCarthy are asking whether they can just be censured instead.

    — Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) November 19, 2021

  8. 8.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    If you took the worst orator in the world

    Gave him the worst speech in the world

    And made him read it for the longest time in the world

    That would be a lot like listening to Kevin McCarthy tonight.

    Except, probably better.

    — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 19, 2021

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 6:15 pm

    @zhena gogolia: We really are a full-service blog!  Some people on BJ make you crazy, some people keep you sane.

    The fun thing about that is that depending on the commenter, different front-pagers and commenters probably fill those two roles. :-)

    edit: Always Baud!

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Like the boss she is!

  11. 11.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 19, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    Good news from India too. The Indian government will repeal the 3 farms laws it passed. The farmers camped outside Delhi for over a year have won!

    A celebratory number lauding the farmers and soldiers of Punjab from the heady days of early days of independent India.

  12. 12.

    West of the Rockies

    November 19, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    I think the Dems should more emphatically explain why funding universal pre-K is important.  Yeah, such funding is playing the long game, but still, a lot of people just say, “So what’s so great about universal pre-K?”

  13. 13.

    debbie

    November 19, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    What did he say about post-WW2?

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 6:19 pm

    @debbie: Something about a swim meet?  I didn’t understand it early.  McCarthy sounds like a blabbering madman.

  15. 15.

    debbie

    November 19, 2021 at 6:21 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Or like a guy with marching orders from TFG. He must have had input for the speech.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 6:24 pm

    @debbie:  You are probably right.

    I hope to god that in the end, T**** will be the anchor that sinks the republican ship, that by all rights should have been sunk multiple years ago.

  17. 17.

    Anyway

    November 19, 2021 at 6:24 pm

    Love the cheering, gleeful, jumping-in-joy Dem reps reacting to Madam Speaker’s gavel SMASH.

    may have to watch Rachel tonight – I usually don’t…

  18. 18.

    zhena gogolia

    November 19, 2021 at 6:26 pm

    @germy:

    This one was my favorite:

    Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was 275 words and less than three minutes long. Two hours and seven minutes into McCarthy’s rant, it is clear the world will little note nor long remember what he says here.— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) November 19, 2021

  19. 19.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:28 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    It looks like we are halfway thru the binder? pic.twitter.com/ATanYiIGh9

    — Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotnbc) November 19, 2021

    Fun fact: it only has pictures in it https://t.co/eHe63K5G21

    — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 19, 2021

  20. 20.

    Cameron

    November 19, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    @West of the Rockies: “Why, that’s where we start teaching them CRT, of course.”

  21. 21.

    SpaceUnit

    November 19, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    Yeah, I’m not having any of the ‘Dems are doomed and demoralized’ nonsense.  This is winning.  After fours years of TFG our media thinks ‘winning’ is calling people names and breaking shit.  Bozos.

  22. 22.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    It is a feat of epic proportions to speak for four hours straight and not produce a single memorable phrase, original insight or even a joke.

    McCarthy thinks he is a wit but so far he has proved he is only half right.

    — Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) November 19, 2021

  23. 23.

    Brachiator

    November 19, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    @debbie:

    Or like a guy with marching orders from TFG. He must have had input for the speech.

    I read some pundit piece suggesting that the guy wanted to prove that he was a good Trumpkin.

    Unfortunately, Trump’s vile influence is going to continue for a while.

  24. 24.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    November 19, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    “Abraham Lincoln was not assassinated”

    Does this mean Abe faked his own death like JFK and JFK Jr.?

  25. 25.

    Spanky

    November 19, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    Rep. Jamie Raskin

    @RepRaskin

    I must admit Kevin McCarthy has accomplished one thing. America is no longer woke.

  26. 26.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    Everyone after Kevin McCarthy’s speech. pic.twitter.com/OzIfHJPEVp

    — George Hahn (@georgehahn) November 19, 2021

  27. 27.

    Spanky

    November 19, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: It all makes sense when you remember Abe is a vampire killer.

  28. 28.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    BREAKING: Peanut Butter the turkey just gave a better speech than Kevin McCarthy pic.twitter.com/MWjxV1zQHO

    — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 19, 2021

  29. 29.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    And now McCarthy is being attacked from his right flank:

    While we heard @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy speak for a great duration of time last night, it was like a really long death rattle.

    The outcome was already determined as a consequence of poor leadership and poor strategy. pic.twitter.com/HgNrsOxiPP

    — Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) November 19, 2021

  30. 30.

    Professor Bigfoot

    November 19, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    @germy: The shade of Marcus Junius Brutus looks at Rep. Raskin’s Twitter feed and thinks, daaaaaaamn, now that is brutal.

  31. 31.

    Ken

    November 19, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    @debbie: Or like a guy with marching orders from TFG. He must have had input for the speech.

    Too muchly grammaring and sensicality for one of TFG’s speechifications.

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Good one!

  33. 33.

    Spanky

    November 19, 2021 at 6:42 pm

    @germy: That’s more of a smelly taint than a right flank.

  34. 34.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 19, 2021 at 6:43 pm

    Friday art 

    for the good news thread.

  35. 35.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    @Spanky:

    Santorum had nothing to do with it.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    @WaterGirl: Baud is a monster.  Ask him when he gets back and I am sure he will confirm it.

  37. 37.

    debbie

    November 19, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    @germy:

    Good god. They really do eat their own!

  38. 38.

    Spanky

    November 19, 2021 at 6:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Hard to imagine that when I’m picturing him frolicking in the Austral Spring, prancing pantless through fields of flowers.

  39. 39.

    germy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:47 pm

    @debbie:

    And such small portions (if they’re gnawing on brains).

  40. 40.

    debbie

    November 19, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Oh, I think far longer than a while. TFG may die, but his followers will live on for at a least a few generations.

  41. 41.

    Cameron

    November 19, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    I can almost envision John Boehner staying up all night to watch this shitshow, laughing his ass off and making snide remarks to the bottle of scotch he’s holding.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    @Spanky: Are you saying that no monster frolics or prances?

  43. 43.

    RaflW

    November 19, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    I gotta say, “Elon is one of my best friends” is one of the saddest/funniest things to come out of last night’s gooberthon.

    And yes, yes: Congrats to Madam Pelosi and the Democratic crew. She sounded a very flexible and open note to a few (unnamed!) folks at the other end of the building in terms of the bill potentially going to conference.

    So, let’s roll, Democrats! The sooner we get this nailed down, to faster we get to election protection and voting rights.

  44. 44.

    Ruckus

    November 19, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Why does this country hate us so much?

    Because you so often show up the other half of the country, without even seeming to try. Of course it often isn’t even a difficult task. And it’s not the country although it is an unreasonable segment of the population. The ones who are afraid that everyone is going to show them up. And they’re one’s who get shown up often. And earn it.

  45. 45.

    Chetan Murthy

    November 19, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    I’m glad for this community, on a day like today.  Glad that there people here who try to look on the bright side.  I’m not one of those people, but I can still appreciate it in others.  So thank you, and I’ll keep my Eeyore in the barn, at least for today.

  46. 46.

    Ken

    November 19, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    @debbie: The “Q” cult already thinks JFK Jr. and Michael Jackson are still alive, and holds monthly rallies expecting them to announce themselves. Can you imagine what will happen after TFG kicks off?

  47. 47.

    Benw

    November 19, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I feel like we’ve been over this a million time but once more: Baud isn’t the monster, he’s the one who lost control over his own creation, which is itself a metaphor for inhumanity. Everyone gets this wrong!

  48. 48.

    Redshift

    November 19, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Don Beyer, my rep, tweeted out a series of “this is now longer than,” starting with the Beatles’ “Help,” and including, among others, the combined extended edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

  49. 49.

    debbie

    November 19, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    @Ken:

    I believe I heard they’re also expecting JFK now, not just his son?

  50. 50.

    dr. bloor

    November 19, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    @Brachiator: ​

    Unfortunately, Trump’s vile influence is going to continue for a while.

    “Endemic” is the word you’re looking for. Trump is the Delta version of Ronald Reagan, and it’s already been in the body politic for forty years.​
      (Sixty if you count Goldwater, who even I am too young to remember).

  51. 51.

    Ruckus

    November 19, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    @SpaceUnit:

    Did the vast majority of the media ever do anything different?

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    @Benw: No, Baud is still the monster, the other one is the creature.

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    November 19, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    @Ken:

    The “Q” cult already thinks JFK Jr. and Michael Jackson are still alive, and holds monthly rallies expecting them to announce themselves. Can you imagine what will happen after TFG kicks off?

    Long lines of people waiting to piss on his grave.

  54. 54.

    zhena gogolia

    November 19, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Beautiful! I want that as a decorative platter.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    @Brachiator: A fair point.

  56. 56.

    dr. bloor

    November 19, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    @Ruckus: Media have had their thumbs on the scales in some way and to some extent forever, but turning news divisions into for-profit enterprises (Thanks, Roone!) along with the demise of the fairness doctrine was like shooting an 8 ball into their veins.

  57. 57.

    zhena gogolia

    November 19, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    @Ken: Not really, but I’m looking forward to it.

  58. 58.

    Brachiator

    November 19, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @dr. bloor:

    RE: Unfortunately, Trump’s vile influence is going to continue for a while.

    “Endemic” is the word you’re looking for. Trump is the Delta version of Ronald Reagan, and it’s already been in the body politic for forty years.

    I think that Trump and Trumpism represents something far worse.

    It is going to be an interesting fight.

  59. 59.

    Redshift

    November 19, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    @RaflW:

    I gotta say, “Elon is one of my best friends” is one of the saddest/funniest things to come out of last night’s gooberthon. 

    And “I can’t afford to test drive a Tesla,” WTF? The owner of the company is a billionaire, not the customers (though maybe that’s the anti-EV propaganda they’re feeding the base.)

  60. 60.

    Old Man Shadow

    November 19, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    @Brachiator: I hope Barron makes a fortune by installing a pay toilet over his old man’s grave.

  61. 61.

    bluefoot

    November 19, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
      That is excellent news from India. And that song is great. To my spiritual brothers and sisters in Punjab: Bole So Nihal!

  62. 62.

    debbie

    November 19, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    A sense of honor used to mean something. From a FB group Historia Obscurum:

    This is British Army Captain Robert Campbell, who was captured in 1914 a few weeks after the First World War started and was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany.

    Campbell was there two years until, in December of 1916, he received word from home that his mother was dying. On a long-shot, Campbell wrote directly to Kaiser Wilhelm II asking for leave to go home to see her one last time.

    Not only did the Kaiser say yes, but he granted Campbell two weeks leave at home, plus two travel days each way, as long as Campbell promised to return.

    And like an honorable gentleman, he did.

    When Campbell’s allotted leave time was up, he crossed back across the front lines once more, and returned to the prisoner of war camp, where he remained until liberated at the end of the war in 1918.

  63. 63.

    Old Man Shadow

    November 19, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    @Brachiator: Illiberalism has been with us since Europeans landed here.

    Seems like for every positive America does, there’s at least one horror a lot of people would like to sweep under the bed.

  64. 64.

    SpaceUnit

    November 19, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @Ruckus:

    No.  You’re right – it didn’t all start with President Chump.  But what’s really disappointing is that at some point over the last five years it seemed as though a number of our media figures began to realize that things weren’t normal, that we’d passed a truly dangerous threshold.  The events of January 6th should have been the ultimate epiphany.

    But nope.  We’re right back to goalpost drills and both-side narratives.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    @germy: I didn’t watch the turkey pardoning.  I take it one of the turkeys was named Peanut Butter?  Was the other one named Jelly?

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: You take that back!  I will defend Baud to the death!  (virtually speaking)

    I will grant you that he might confirm what you said.

  67. 67.

    SpaceUnit

    November 19, 2021 at 7:10 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    It was, in fact, named Jelly.

  68. 68.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: I love your comment.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    @Benw: That made my day.

  70. 70.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm

    @debbie: Wow.

  71. 71.

    WaterGirl

    November 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm

    @SpaceUnit: Of course it was!  I bet Uncle Joe let the grandkids name the turkeys.

  72. 72.

    different-church-lady

    November 19, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    @SpaceUnit:

    It was, in fact, named Jelly.

    Nominated for rotating tag line.

  73. 73.

    prostratedragon

    November 19, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    Wow, on the POW and the Kaiser. My father was very grateful when the US Army gave him a week’s leave when his own father died in 1945, just as Dad’s unit was regearing to go East, having just been in Europe. But this is remarkable.

     

    Headed out to hear Quinteto Astor Piazzolla at Orchestra Hall.

  74. 74.

    SpaceUnit

    November 19, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Thanks!  Will there be a ceremony?  Should I prepare some brief remarks?

    Will the press be in attendance?  I’m new to this.

  75. 75.

    Mel

    November 19, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: I’m thankful for so many good people in this community, and you are always one of them.

  76. 76.

    Skepticat

    November 19, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I love Jen, Nancy, and Kamala.

    ETA: Women are really good. Why does this country hate us so much?

    Some women—especially those you mentioned—indeed are good. (I hope we are too.) I always thought it would be good to get more women into Congress. But then we got Lauren Boobert (not, it’s not a typo; I’m channeling Chump), Virginia Foxx, Marjorie Greene, Elise Stefanik, Joni Ernst, my-sorta-own Susan Collins, and assorted other mental cases. I’m grateful they’re currently outliers—and bold liars—and I hope we’ll see the end of them soon.

  77. 77.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 19, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    @bluefoot: Sat Sri Akal. That song is a classic!

  78. 78.

    Skepticat

    November 19, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @Cameron: ​
     

    I can almost envision John Boehner staying up all night to watch this shitshow, laughing his ass off and making snide remarks to the bottle of scotch he’s holding.

    It’s terrifying that I’m almost nostalgic for him—and even for Nixon. Everything is relative.

  79. 79.

    Mel

    November 19, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @prostratedragon: Street Tango!!

  80. 80.

    zhena gogolia

    November 19, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @Skepticat: I guess what I mean is: we have never had a woman president. Why is that? The country hates women.

  81. 81.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 19, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    @zhena gogolia:  Thanks!

  82. 82.

    Skepticat

    November 19, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Oh, sadly, I knew and understood all too well what you  meant. I think they know what we truly are, and they’re afraid.

  83. 83.

    Mike in NC

    November 19, 2021 at 9:41 pm

    It took us 240 years to get a (fabulous) woman VP. Will it take another 240 years to get a woman president?

  84. 84.

    Ken

    November 19, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    @debbie: I believe I heard they’re also expecting JFK now, not just his son?

    Well why not, he’d only be 104. Probably show up with the 95-year-old Marilyn Monroe.

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