Thank you, Kalakal:
The campaign is produced for the Danish Road Safety Council by NewLand Film and &Co 2021
Ask these Repubs!
Senator Rick Scott wrote the only election-year plan the GOP has this year—in it, he wants to require Congress to vote on the future of Social Security every 5 years.
Do you want to put your Social Security into the hands of Ted Cruz or Marjorie Taylor Greene?
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 26, 2022
Senator Ron Johnson wants Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every year. He's the same guy who said if Republicans get control of Congress, they'll try to get rid of the ACA again—denying insurance to people with preexisting conditions.
These guys never stop.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 27, 2022
Some of Our Media Betters, also showing signs of closed-head trauma:
trump lost the house, senate, and white house while his voters were maximally engaged, the first president to do that since herbert hoover. why would his presence improve that.
what if people just don’t like the republican party right now. https://t.co/scBbIj2vA2
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) August 24, 2022
a republican congress will pass a national ban on abortion. just tell that to your dumbfuck friends that don’t vote. it has the virtue of being true. they don’t need to understand how the veto works. get those turds to vote. https://t.co/8HYkckuSHH
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) August 24, 2022
if the dem strategy is to stack _all_ of their wins right ahead of the midterms, denying conservative groups the chance to seize the narrative for any of them, it’s brilliant lmfao lesson learned
— pessimist functor (@htpyFiber) August 26, 2022
It wasn’t the plan all along. But that this is where it ended up is shocking only to people who don’t follow politics much, or do follow politics but are nitwits & jackasses. https://t.co/SYHPIuCNTK
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 27, 2022
Student loan stuff is only bc of the election. If he was truly progressive he would have proposed a $1.8 trillion plan w expanded child tax credit, free pre-K & community college, subsidized family leave, support for child care & family/medical leave, &…oh, wait, he actually did
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 27, 2022
one of the craziest common beliefs is "we should work to find common cause with the people whose core belief is that we should be killed by the state rather than the people whose core belief is that they should immediately concede and leave power if outvoted." https://t.co/i29c3SdM0G
— Andreas Schou (@revhowardarson) August 19, 2022
It's worth paying attention to who gets angry whenever people who need help receive even a tiny bit of it from the state, and also to how angry they get about it. Not because it tells you anything about like Rep. Jim Jordan that you didn't already know, but because it is funny.
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) August 24, 2022
hmm i wonder whose fault that is https://t.co/gvcuKfM2A3
— Jort-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) August 26, 2022
Mulvaney got pushback, pushback that could cost him $$$ from Trump world, for suggesting Trump shouldn't be 2024 nominee. Thus this tweet.
Yes, the search was about documents. Would Mick be happier if the FBI had said they were also looking for a dead body in the storage room? https://t.co/m21Pfz8FSV
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 26, 2022
The Thin Black Duke
I really like this “no fucks left to give” Joe Biden.
Baud
@The Thin Black Duke:
Yep. Those tweets are great.
Baud
So the GOP did a lot of bad redistricting after their big 2010 victory, but we still won something like 40 seats in 2018 under those district maps. It really does mostly depend on who shows up.
Brachiator
Yes, yes, yes.
I will quote this whenever super progressives start whining about how “disappointed” they are with Biden.
Baud
This is a marriable tweet.
germy shoemangler
p.a.
Poor W, if only he’d said the racist stuff through a megaphone, maybe he’d have been as loved as tRump after showing himself a miserable failure too.
Baud
WRT legislative victories, yes, a lot of them happen just before the election because Congress is on a clock too, and deadlines force legislators to fish or cut bait.
No way Joe wanted didn’t want BBB back in 2021.
germy shoemangler
Geminid
@Baud: 2018 Democrat pickups on Republican maps included 3 in Virginia, 2 in Texas, 1 each in Georgia, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Kansas. There were 2 seats flipped in Michigan, but I’m not sure Republicans drew that map.
The seats in South Carolina and Oklahoma were retaken by Republicans in 2020.
Ken
It still feels more than a little weird to agree with Bill Kristol. I’m debating whether I want to scroll through his twitter feed. What if I agree with him on many things, not just the few tweets BJ front-pagers copy over here?
I also like that Jort-Michel Connard tweet, but I thought Jort was a cat?
Dorothy A. Winsor
Yesterday, a friend was telling me about a guy she works with who was a lifelong R but left the party because he thinks the current Rs are nuts. He not only left the Rs, but is actively working for the Ds. His only complaint is that the local Iowa Ds are disorganized.
@p.a.: That is sadly true.
oatler
I always thought it was funny that none of the handsome leads wore helmets during battles in LOTR.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Welcome to the party, pal.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech. Another sleepless night.
Dorothy A. Winsor
There’s a piece on Kos saying the judge is going to give TFG his special master. Is that true? How would that even work? It’s so late. And there’s a bunch of highly classified material involved.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Hearing is in September. No final decision yet.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: That was more or less what I said.
Was it Will Rogers who said “I’m not a member of an organized party. I’m a Democrat”?
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @Baud:
“I Am Not A Member Of Any Organized Political Party — I’m A Democrat”
-Will Rogers
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Thanks.
By that point, surely whoever is sorting the material will have looked at it all. So I guess I don’t get the point.
Amir Khalid
@oatler:
Didn’t Gimli wear one? … Oh wait, you said none of the handsome leads.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The FBI had a special master from the gitgo, but he wasn’t trump’s, I guess. Not that this one will be either.
mrmoshpotato
Say it louder for those in back, and the thick-headed idiots!
Ken
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It won’t happen, but I can dream this will backfire like a genie wish:
“ORDERED, that a Special Master be appointed to examine all documents in the possession of Donald J. Trump, to determine if any of them are the property of the United States Government, and to return any such documents to the Government;
“FURTHER ORDERED, that all homes, offices, and other locations owned or controlled by said Donald J. Trump be now sealed, and no person be admitted to, or allowed to remove any material from, any such location until it has been inspected by the Special Master.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, I thought that was the case. They deal with criminals all the time, so they’ve had to sort attorney communications before.
There are days when the sheer amount of stupid gets me down.
OzarkHillbilly
mrmoshpotato
David, sit down. I have something to tell you – “Well, if the orange shitstain would stop committing crimes!”
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yep, and this time they were gonna make sure to dot ALL their i’s and cross ALL their t’s. No mistakes mf’ers.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
They could stop caring about Trump. Then the investigations wouldnt bother them so much.
Dorothy A. Winsor
To my dismay, “promoted” posts show up in my twitter feed. One today reads: “Neither scientists nor biologists can explain these scary trail cam photos captured in the woods”
Way to give a gratuitous slap to biologists!
Suzanne
There they are, threatening me with a good time again.
This is another perfect time for the gif of Michael Jackson eating popcorn.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: But but but to do that they’d have to admit that they aren’t the victims of FBI overreach.
The Thin Black Duke
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I think what Trump is trying to do is delay, delay, and delay some more until the midterm elections. He knows that if the GOP takes the House and Senate, the Republicans will make all his problems go away, because they don’t give a shit about treason.
mrmoshpotato
@germy shoemangler: What’s this guy – a Republican?
Suzanne
@The Thin Black Duke: I just fundamentally do not understand. Shit, if I could retire yesterday, I would. All these ex-presidents get a great pension and can fly around the world giving speeches and rake in big dollars for very little work. That sounds great. Being the president sounds fucking terrible. I don’t understand why he wants to do it again. (To say nothing of how terrible it was for all of us citizens.)
Baud
@Suzanne:
Being president is terrible for people who take the work seriously.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Baud McClane, is that you?
Also, where’s the pizza?
Ken
Payback for the way they treat sociologists, according to this handy XKCD scale.
Lapassionara
@Geminid: I think that seat in SC should be winnable for Ds again. Keeping my fingers crossed.
The Thin Black Duke
@Suzanne: Trump knows that the presidency is the only thing that will protect his bloated carcass now.
germy shoemangler
@mrmoshpotato:
“staunch” apparently
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Also, we will judge if they’re scary, dammit! Or if it’s just clickbait garbage for which several handfuls of slaps should be handed out.
ETA – also, what about the makers of the trail cams? Analysis is impossible?
Someone (probably several people) need(s) a Sunday morning slap.
Nelle
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The Polk County, Iowa Democrats are really organized, particularly in Urbandale. Where is your friend? They might want to look at our Neighbor to Neighbor plan. I can give contact numbers.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne:
Vlad and Bonesaw are probably demanding more state secrets.
Brachiator
@The Thin Black Duke:
The DOJ and FBI will continue to pursue Trump, as will New York state prosecutors. He may avoid a deeper look into January 6 issues, but his problems are not going away anytime soon.
Hell, there will probably be more stuff, since Trump really does not understand that he is a FORMER president. His ego kept pushing boundaries. And the chickens keep coming home to roost.
Suzanne
@mrmoshpotato:
That’s probably true.
Depressing to consider.
God, I could never be a criminal. It sounds like too much effort and stress.
germy shoemangler
You mad, bro?
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: I suspect you misunderstand his sarcasm at upper management and their expectations. Scott is on our side
( i may have misunderstood your comment tho, I’m pre-coffee)
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: Of course, Dump also wants the attention again, too.
Good grief, what a bloated sack of personality disorders. Fred must’ve been a monstrous father.
Brachiator
@OzarkHillbilly:
I sympathethize. I have a leg and knee injury that won’t let me get good sleep.
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack:
Drink a cup, then tell me who Scott is because I is confoozed. 😁
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Nelle: My friend is in the Quad Cities. I passed along her story without asking her, so I think I won’t tell her about your kind offer!
MagdaInBlack
@germy shoemangler: Fuck right off into the sunset, Ted.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: No, I’ll just pretend to delete my post, cause I replied to the wrong comment. More french roast please.
(erase erase erase)
sab
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Those promoted tweets are Twitters way of protecting you from being too much in your own only people who think like you bubble.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy shoemangler: I hope everyone having student debt forgiven hears Cruz’s rant and lets it affect their vote. You gonna let this guy insult you???
Dorothy A. Winsor
@sab: I figure they must pay twitter’s bills since I’m paying them anything.
germy shoemangler
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
“Contempt for the audience. That’s what killed Dennis Day”
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly: 😪😪😪😪
OzarkHillbilly
@Brachiator: Yeah, both my shoulders are shot and my hips are going. Being a side sleeper, the pain wakes me up every hour or so to roll over.
I wish that was what I’m dealing with now. I am waking up at 11 or 12, and that’s it. My brain kicks into gear and I just can’t shut it off. Sometimes Planet Earth can help. Sometimes a book can help. Sometimes a glass of milk can help. Sometimes drugs can help. The last 2 nights, nothing helped.
NeenerNeener
@Ken: Jorts with an “s” is a cat. Jort-Michel is a person, as near as I can tell.
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack: No worries.
Barbara
@germy shoemangler: It’s a refrain I can’t get out of my head — it’s like they don’t know what country they actually live in, and are stuck with the idea that “working class” means not college educated, working in a “heavy” job like manufacturing or construction. Never mind that manufacturing increasingly relies on people with the capacity to understand and use computers (i.e., post-high school education or training) or that non-blue collar jobs in hospitality and health care are psychologically and sometimes physically demanding.
It is very unfortunate that the press perpetuates this view when it opines on “working class voters,” by which it almost always means white men working in mining and manufacturing, and maybe construction trades — the latter being the only category that has not diminished greatly over the last two decades.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Sadly Republicans have been insulting people for a long time with little pushback. Hope this time is different.
Shalimar
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The judge is gonna name Jared as special master. He’s cleared for all that special stuff, and he’s officially ambivalent about his dad-in-law.
kalakal
One thing that cheers me up is that every morning Turtle McTurtleface wakes up and the first thought in his head will be
” Oh God, what’s that moron done while I was sleeping?”
If only he had a copy of my new book
Reputational Damage Control for Scheming Bastards
Soprano2
@mrmoshpotato: There are a bunch of replies to that tweet just like yours, with a few that say “You haven’t proven any crimes”. TFG’s supporters are willfully blind, because him having those documents, lying about it, then refusing to give them back ARE ALL CRIMES! Even if he waved his magic hand and said they were all unclassified it would still be a crime for him to have them!
Narya
@OzarkHillbilly: 10 percent happier app has some sleep meditations that have helped me a bit, especially with mind-churn.
Soprano2
@Suzanne: He wants to be a dictator. Plus, he knows it keeps them from investigating all his crimes. I think it’s who he is, he can’t stop wanting power over people. When he was president he didn’t do much work anyway, mostly he watched TV and tweeted.
Brachiator
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yeah. Lying down wasn’t working, still pressure on my leg. So I tried sleeping in a comfortable chair. Inconsistent results.
Soprano2
@germy shoemangler: Wow, I guess he thinks “barista” isn’t a job. He better never go to a coffee shop again! He’s obviously never done a really hard day of work in his life.
OzarkHillbilly
@Narya: Heh, thanx but I don’t have a smart phone.
Ramalama
@kalakal:
Love the title.
lowtechcyclist
@Brachiator:
Anyone on the left who’s still disappointed with Biden wouldn’t have been satisfied if he’d walked on water while turning it into wine. Fuck ’em.
Geminid
@Brachiator: Have you tried advil pm or an equivalent? It includes an antihistamine to calm brain activity. They work for me, but everyone is different when it comes to sleeping.
germy shoemangler
@Soprano2:
OzarkHillbilly
@Brachiator: Same here, especially if I’m having a charley horse night. I’m closer to the ice packs, not waking my wife up with fits of cursing and hopping around etc. Eventually, I might fall asleep. Or not.
6 or 7 hours of broken sleep feels pretty good in the AM. 4-5 is sufficient to get me till I can have a nap. 1 or 2? That sucks donkey d.
Steeplejack
@germy shoemangler:
First comment: “Dank Brandon.”
Percysowner
@The Thin Black Duke:
They don’t give a shit about treason. The Jan.6 commission will go away if they retake the House. But we have Biden for another 2 years and his DOJ can keep on keeping on and there is no way Biden will pardon Trump so there’s at least that.
Soprano2
@Barbara: They should watch my servers, cooks and bartenders working when it’s busy to see what hard work is. We helped by busing tables last night because it was busy and we only had one server and one bartender! It’s been slow the past few Saturday nights (summer, grrrr) so our manager only scheduled one of each last night, then there was an unscheduled group and it was pretty busy otherwise. He did a great job, too.
Brachiator
@Barbara:
I am seeing that this is very similar to a hard core attitude of many British people. There is a distinction between working class and middle class. Working class is defined by manual labor and minimal education. And so a pharmacist or lawyer is resented as not being working class. This is sad because it quickly becomes self-defeating.
In the US young people, especially men, with only a high school education are more likely to vote Republican, without regard to their income. These people may be less likely to have student loans, so the GOP may try to stoke resentment.
germy shoemangler
@Steeplejack:
“this edible is malarkey…..”
Suzanne
@Barbara:
Right?! Like apparently they cannot see hair stylists and child care workers and hotel maids and hospital cleaning staff and department store sales staff. It mystifies me.
Suzanne
@Brachiator:
Shocked face!
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Well, something about him sure changed since he helped push through the abominable Bankruptcy ‘Reform’ Act of 2005.
Someone would have to do some serious convincing to convince me that the Joe Biden of 2005 and the Joe Biden of 2022 are coming from basically the same place, because that makes no fucking sense at all. Would love to hear how Dana Houle argues that they’re consistent.
Soprano2
@Suzanne: They used to call those “pink collar jobs”, and they were taken much less seriously than the “physically hard” blue collar jobs. Those were seen as easier, more “cushy ” jobs not deserving of the blue collar moniker because they were mostly done indoors by women and gay men. I think that’s how a lot of the press and conservatives still think of them. Look at how Cruz felt comfortable sneering at baristas!
MagdaInBlack
@Suzanne: oh they see them/us……as the servant class, and so unworthy of notice or respect.
prostratedragon
@Suzanne: One argument against the notion of the criminal mastermind.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: Now they’re done by “heroes”.
Anne Laurie
Jorts are ‘jean shorts’ (aka ‘cutoffs’); the cat of the famous twitter feed was named Jorts because he was adopted to keep office cat Jean company.
The human with the twitter feed was originally ‘Jean-Michael Connard’, but he liked Jorts-the-union-cat’s twitter feed so much he changed his own nym in solidarity.
All the best humor is — IMO — let’s call it orthogonal.
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I block all promoted posts and all advertising posts. It teaches the algorithm not to prioritize those on your feed (you’ll still get some occasionally) and cleans it up nicely.
delphinium
@The Thin Black Duke:
Precisely this-keep delaying things in hopes someone or something will save his sorry ass.
germy shoemangler
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato: Fred was, but tfg has been out of his control for decades now.
Brachiator
@lowtechcyclist:
Yeah. I generally ignore these people, but whenever I run across some comments or a YouTube clip, I see that they keep falling back to their standard “Republicans, Democrats, no difference” nonsense. Worse, I note that the worst of them ignore women’s reproductive rights because it is not part of their reductive focus on making a fetish of the working class.
artem1s
@Suzanne:
Private plane and helicopter. Unlimited personal security, wait staff and executive staff. All paid for by either the GOP or the taxpayers. Not to mention the non-stop grifting and graft opportunities. He was pretty much living the same miserable life he always had, only someone else was footing the bill.
Mokum
@Dorothy A. Winsor:” three people and a Belgian woman died in the car crash” is a classic in this area.
Brachiator
@Geminid:
Just regular extra strength Acetaminophen. It does help a little bit.
satby
@lowtechcyclist: his constituents in 2005 were based in Delaware (banks) and there was a not insignificant amount of people running up huge student loans they had no intention of paying back and then filing for bankruptcy to evade them. I remember a lot of medical school graduates were prime offenders. Joe was repping his constituents then, and now his constituents are the entire nation. It’s perfectly consistent. Plus, we gain wisdom as we age, if we’re the right kind of people, and Joe clearly is.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
BernieBros are mad at Biden for making people’s lives better by canceling $20,000 of student loans because it denies them the ability to say Biden betrayed them.
How sick.
lowtechcyclist
@sab:
My in-laws suffice, even though I only see them a few times a year.
lowtechcyclist
@Brachiator:
And even taking that into account, the Dems at least tried to get a minimum wage hike through Congress last year. (And with a few more Senators and holding the House, they’ll probably do it next year.) I’ve been paying attention to politics since the 1960s and I can’t remember a single instance of the GOP trying to raise the minimum wage. It’s always been the Dems.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Suzanne: Those people are women. They’re undoubtedly working for pin money. /
germy shoemangler
@artem1s:
Also, Obama had two terms.
There’s no way FPOTUS will be satisfied until he can have two terms, too. Otherwise he was “beaten by the black guy”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@satby: One of the most egregious things about the current student loan standards is that you can’t clear them through bankruptcy. That needs to be changed.
MisterDancer
@satby: Thank you!
Joe has changed. He’s said his view on Race changed a lot, working with Obama. He got another dose — the dose he says compelled him to run this term — with Charlottesville, which he’s said he never believed could happen in America, but did.
Biden has always been a flawed vessel, but one with good intentions. I recall my Dad defending Biden’s School Busing approach back when Harris attacked him for it; he pointed out that politically it was a very different time, and a lot of the best solutions the Black community had did look a lot like what Biden was supporting — back then. And my Dad said this as a Harris supporter, at the time!
I know it’s Standard Operating Procedures to crap on any literally old pol, but a number of them did get into this to make things better, not just to line their pockets. And Joe, in my estimation, is one of them — even when I personally disagree with his approach.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MisterDancer: You learn better, you do better.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Shitstain Jonathan Turley went on Fox and conceded Dump didn’t respond to repeated government requests for documents but says that doesn’t mean he was “uncooperative”.
If Dump went into a bank and waved a gun and said “give me all the money”, Turley would say that wasn’t a robbery but a loan application.
geg6
@MisterDancer:
Yes, this.
Geminid
@David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Some of that set are saying Biden’s initiative was a good one (although they give their own “activists” the credit). I’m speaking here of Justice Democrats spokesman Walid Shaheed and a lefty journal I call Common Screams. They say they will keep fighting for more extensive relief.
For others, it’s on to “abolish medical debt!” That isn’t neccesarily a bad idea on its merits, but for many of these people it’s just another club to beat Democrats with.
Jager
@OzarkHillbilly:
Osteoarthritis, neck, and both shoulders, I sleep for 90 to 120 minutes at a time. I’m at the point that the shoulder I’m not sleeping on hurts like hell. I just started doing some pool exercises, hope they help, because I’m sick of this shit.
Soprano2
@Dorothy A. Winsor: At my first job after college the general manager was open about paying men more than women because men were supporting a family while women were working for “extra money” (yeah I was single and supporting myself), plus why promote a woman when she’ll just have a baby and quit? 🙄🙄🙄 He told a woman who interviewed for the newly-created job of safety coordinator that she was the most qualified but he was reluctant to give her the job because the men in the plant wouldn’t listen to her! This was in 1987. She got the job anyway.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Dump doesn’t want to run again as it prevents him from playing golf all day and from “drinking” with Russian hookers. But he panicked after the devastating 1/6 hearings and mistakenly believes running will prevent DOJ from indicting him for the coup. Then the search happened. He’s no longer acting like someone who thinks he has a get out of jail free card.
geg6
@Soprano2:
I had this problem when I started in higher ed in the early 1990s. Single, no kids and female. During an annual evaluation, my boss told me I didn’t need a raise because my boyfriend made good money.
germy shoemangler
Jager
@Soprano2:
When I was in school, I had a bunch of different jobs, construction, etc. The hardest job was working in the back kitchen of a busy restaurant. When I read Bourdain’s first book, I broke out in a sweat.
lowtechcyclist
@satby:
So if his constituents had been 60% MAGAts, he’d have been a fascist? I have deep problems with that kind of consistency.
Also, limiting the extent to which student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy was about 1% of that bill. There’s stuff in there that basically amounts to indentured servitude. Defending that bill on the basis of student loans is like defending Mussolini because he made the trains run on time.
Wait, that’s my point. He’s gained wisdom, and as a result he’s no longer the sort of person who’d try to pass an abomination like that.
Also, speaking from personal experience, the extent to which we are ‘good people’ can change substantially over time. Biden’s ‘good people’ now, but I don’t think that demonstrates that he was ‘good people’ in 2005.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jager: I was recently diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my lower back, going to PT for it. I have hope that it will help but not much. I’ve got bone spurs on 5 of the 7 cervical vertebrate (maybe all of them now, that was 16 years ago) My neck likes to snap, crackle, and pop. Fortunately, no real pain with them now, just stiffness.
OzarkHillbilly
@germy shoemangler: He forgot obstruction.
MinuteMan
And of course the GQP would never use that as an opportunity to take hostages—the recurring debt ceiling and budget crises are totally different.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Geminid:
Hopefully Biden will move on to canceling gambling debts (asking for a friend)
Steeplejack
@germy shoemangler:
Also . . .
RSA
@germy shoemangler:
Not to mention that the share of federal income tax paid by individuals making $50,000 or less amounts to about 7%. There’s some wealth transfer, sure, but there are much bigger and more egregious targets people might focus on.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@germy shoemangler:
Looks like DeathSantis is going to have to step up his crime spree if he wants to win Iowa.
germy shoemangler
Mimi
I just want Trump to go away. Run to Putin and get disappeared to Siberia; run over by whatshisname, you know Ivana’s youngest; stroke out on the golf course. Whatever, as long as he’s gone.
Steeplejack
@Suzanne:
We live in a service economy now. Someone pointed out a while back that there are more people working just at Arby’s than there are coal miners in this country. But they’re not manly men with soot-stained faces.
Jager
@OzarkHillbilly:
Low weight-high rep exercises help with my shoulders, my neck started with a pinched nerve from a skiing mishap, a 30 mph faceplant on a beautiful Colorado day. My neck snaps and pops are so loud, when we were flying to Hawaii last week, I did some neck rolls and the guy across the aisle looked at me and said, “Jesus”…well, maybe not that loud, but …
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack: I love that!
JPL
@germy shoemangler: That’s the republican party.
zhena gogolia
Made the mistake of glancing through the opinion section of the NYT. Rich Lowry, “What If the FBI Were Investigating a Democrat?”
Fuck you, Rich. Did you sleep through 2016 or something?
Brachiator
@lowtechcyclist:
Biden and, to be fair some progressive Democrats, were not just stuck on minimum wage or bust. It still annoys me that some Democrats forget or don’t know that Biden’s American Rescue Plan enhanced the Earned Income Tax Credit and other tax credits that helped lower income people. Manchin, of course, helped kill an extension of these credits after 2021. But without the 2021 enhancement of the EITC, many lower income working people would have been worse off. Biden wisely did not focus on a single tax policy idea.
Republicans tend to be against any minimum wage. They believe that market forces magically set wages.
UncleEbeneezer
@MisterDancer: Same goes for Hillary. The more I’ve listened to and read people who have worked with her it becomes clear that she is a fundamentally decent person who is always willing to learn and evolve. That, to me, is even more important than where a pol stands on a particular issue right now! It’s what I want from public servants. And much better than the attitude that they are always right and can never evolve their understanding/stance or admit they were wrong.
germy shoemangler
@zhena gogolia:
Every one of Sulzberger’s headlines should simply say “Please don’t vote for Democrats – I don’t want my taxes raised”
Bezos, too.
Kristine
@germy shoemangler: If I were Cruz, I would be very careful where I bought my next cup of coffee.
Maybe have a staffer pick it up.
germy shoemangler
@Kristine:
“Name?”
“Uh… Beto O’Rourke”
satby
🔥🔥🔥< your straw man is on fire.
UncleEbeneezer
@zhena gogolia: I don’t remember even one Democrat advocating political violence against law enforcement because as a result of the FBI’s investigation of Hillary.
NorthLeft
It’s unfortunate that Mulvaney is only getting pushback from the right. CBS should have him explain WTF he actually meant to say in that idiotic tweet.
While they are at it point out the stupidity of John Yoo’s idea to just dump all the documents to the public and let uninformed ignoramuses decide if these documents are important/classified. They should also highlight Yoo’s employment by UCal every time they call his idea stupid and finish with the observation that UCal seems to believe that a person as stupid, amoral, and biased as John Yoo is qualified to teach law.
zhena gogolia
@UncleEbeneezer: Me either.
opiejeanne
@David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: My niece just told me that all of her student loans will be paid off by this forgiveness. She owes $15k and has 2 Pell grants.
sdhays
@Brachiator: Newt Gingrich even criticized child labor laws.
germy shoemangler
Gin & Tonic
@germy shoemangler: Moron.
sdhays
Not counting any chickens yet, but now that the conventional wisdom is a lot more pessimistic about Republicans’ chances in November, perhaps the media hiring spree of Republicans so as to “be prepared” for 2023 seems premature now, no? I wonder if those people they hired, like Mulvaney, will be let go if Democrats hold both the House and Senate.
LOL, of course they won’t. It was always a bullshit excuse to inject more Republican bias into the “mainstream”.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
I’m pretty sure most of the Biden Has Changed memes are looking at a two year time scale.
Danielx
@Suzanne:
Well, for starters he wants to avoid being prosecuted. Then there’s being the center of attention, the guy to whom everybody has to pay attention. He likes the trappings and the perks, he doesn’t give a fiddler’s fuck about actually doing the job except for how he personally can benefit.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: Indeed.
Thanks for the explainer on Slava Ukraini! I agree that it is a totally different phrase from Slava Ukrainy.
Elizabelle
@germy shoemangler: It’s Ohio.
A crabs in a bucket state. Like its neighbors, West Virginia. And Indiana.
Those swollen up people who get university educations … move right out of your community, perhaps. Who benefits from that?
Sad. (FWIW, my parents’ families all hail from Indiana. I remember attending a family reunion, decades ago. The smartest young cousins. Were working and living in Ohio.)
Elizabelle
@germy shoemangler:
Democracy dies in
darknesstax avoidance by the owners.And fuck the fucking Sulzbergers. And their pinhead tool executive editors.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: That piece by Lowry is many days old by now.
And, if you want to cheer yourself, click on the reader responses.
They pillory the asshole.
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle: I’m very tied to the paper paper!
Uncle Cosmo
@satby: Merci beaucoup, vielen Dank, diky moc, köszönöm szépen, ευχαριστώ πολύ, дуже тобі дякую – you saved me the trouble of pointing out these very simple and straightforward facts to those too young, distracted, or willfully obtuse to understand US political history.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: Ah. I just have a digital sub.
And could not stand the FTFNYTimes at all if I couldn’t see that most of its readers push back against the bullshit and trial balloons it often floats. Makes it more bearable.
O. Felix Culpa
@Elizabelle: Does the pushback have any effect? Or is this just part of their “engagement” business model, which allows them to continue setting the official MSM narrative for the nation whilst allowing the misguided minions to fruitlessly blow off steam in the comments?
sab
@Elizabelle: Now those young Ohioans are either in Chicago or California.
Elizabelle
@O. Felix Culpa: Good point. I wonder about that one, myself.
It’s occurred to me that the readers comments are an escape valve. Otherwise, you really would cancel your sub.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
@zhena gogolia:
I must have missed that! Was it in a recent thread?
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne: It was in Wednesday’s Ukraine thread. (Aug. 24
Really should be front-paged.
WaterGirl
@geg6: Holy shit, did you take that to HR?
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
Thanks!
Citizen Alan
@germy shoemangler: They really do have nothing to offer except hate, don’t they. And it is very telling, I think, that while painting a word picture of the person who his audience wants to hate the most, he vomits out what what sounds to me like a caricature of AOC.
Another Scott
@MisterDancer: Someone said a while ago that Biden has always been in the center of the Democratic party at the time. As the center moves, he moves.
I think that’s a wise take.
Not that I don’t wish that he would move faster on some things, but he has learned the lesson very well that “politics is the art of the possible”.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Steeplejack: [ snort! ]
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@zhena gogolia:
Hillary.
He’s not stupid – he thinks his people won’t bother to remember. It’s always projection with these dolts.
Grr…,
Scott.
Kent
Exactly. But if your entire purpose is grift then the White House is a better place to conduct business than Mar a Lago.
Another Scott
@O. Felix Culpa: Bobo (IIRC) remarked dismissively that he never reads comments about his column. I assume the rest of them (except good guys like Krugman – he once replied to an e-mail I sent him) don’t either.
We’re not their audience.
Cheers,
Scott.
swordfish
Just wanted to stop by to thank Anne Laurie for the helmet video. My brother died when he rode his motorcycle around a curve in Arizona’s White Mountains and ran into an elk who was standing there. He wasn’t wearing a helmet – he never did – and received a massive head injury when his head hit the road. He had been riding for about 20 years, so he was no amateur. But roads are harder than heads. I miss him still.
Betsy
@OzarkHillbilly: Try this. YouTube, search for a 45-minute video called “Rainday Antiques.” I don’t even know what’s in the little antique store, because I never make it more than 3-4 minutes in.
WaterGirl
@swordfish: There’s no way to prepare for what’s around a curve, is there. What a terrible loss.
I’m so sorry.
Citizen Alan
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Even a relaxing of the Brunner test would be a big deal. At present, to get a bankruptcy judge to sign off on a discharge of student loans, you essentially have to be injured to the point of permanent disability, and even then it’s hard.
Citizen Alan
@lowtechcyclist: If Delaware were 60% maga, Biden wouldn’t have gotten elected in the 1st place. And as a bankruptcy attorney with 15 years of experience and an LLM, I should like very much to know which part of BAPCPA you think imposed indentured servitude.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor: One of my favorite mottos. Another is evolve or die.
Citizen Alan
@geg6:
I attribute the fact that I was raised in a solidly middle class household and that my sister and I were the first people in our extended family to go to college (and the only people until the last 15 years to do so) in large part to the fact that my mother got a job at Bell South doing electrical work that had previously been reserved for men. Luckily, just a few years before I was born, AT&T got sued for sex discrimination, and as part of the consent decree had to open all those jobs up to women. My mother was in the very 1st group of women in Mississippi to ever be allowed to hold that high paying Union job. All six of my aunts in her age group group were stay-at-home mothers whose familys struggled financially for decades. None of their children ever went to college and only some of their grandchildren did.
eclare
@Citizen Alan: Very impressive.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@mrmoshpotato: Trump’s mother became very ill and was basically absent from childcare when he was about 2-3 years old. Fred didn’t hire any replacement, so Donald was emotionally neglected and abused at a crucial development stage (as well as most of the rest of his childhood). Not to excuse this vicious shitstain, but to explain a bit about the childhood trauma he (and the rest of his siblings) experienced
ETA: TL:DR Yes. Fred was a monstrous father. And his mother was very distant when she was even present.