President Biden delivers remarks on rebuilding American manufacturing through the CHIPS and Science Act at the groundbreaking of the new Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility.
The president starts speaking at the 30 minute mark.
Since we’re in Ohio today, could some of you Ohio peeps bring us up to date on the state of the redistricting tug-of-war? We are so close to November, surely there has been a final disposition of that. Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Adding this link, too, since I inadvertently put this one up late! I haven’t watched it yet, but I am guessing it will be fun.
Open thread.
WaterGirl
I swear this speech was set for 1:15 pm when I put the post together. So either they moved it, or more likely, it’s because I screwed up the time
Maybe I need to take LIVE out of the title!
cintibud
I’m in Ohio and I have no f-ing idea about the redistricting either. It’s just another example of GOP totally ignoring norms though
Edit. Gee, I’ve never been number 2 before. Although after not getting any sleep last night I sure feel like number 2
Layer8Problem
I have an issue with the venue: what was wrong with the OLD Albany? Maybe germy shoemangler can weigh in on this.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
just clicked on MSNBC and they’re giving live coverage to Chuck E Three. I agree Old Betty’s passing is a news event, but I don’t really need to know that Charles remains conscious of the obligations of the monarchy to the Church of England.
Eunicecycle
Oh the redistricting was bad. Despite the citizens referendum passed by an overwhelming vote for fair districts, the Republican led committee just refused to do it. The districts were rejected at least twice by our Supreme Court, which is 3-2 Republican, including the governor’s son. The Chief Justice, though an R, voted with the Democrats. But they would never hold the Committee in contempt! I thought they should have jailed them all until they came up with better districts. The result is, the Court said well now it’s too late (May) so we have to use the bad maps, oh and we had to have a special election in August just for Congress because they couldn’t print the ballots for May primaries. The Committee just refused to meet because they were all too busy! It’s so frustrating! Ohio is about 54-46 Republicans but the districts were drawn to be 12-3 Republican! Don’t get me started. Too late?
WaterGirl
@Eunicecycle: So no consequences at all for the Committee?
That’s just wrong.
sab
They are going with one of the maps the Republicans on the Commission wanted, since the Federal judge stepped in and undercut the state supreme court.
Sucks in my area. All the biggest Ohio cities got chopped up into at least two districts, so Republican exurbs dominate.
But the map will only be good until the next election, when we start the whole process again.
WaterGirl
@sab: How is that committee formed? Elected? Appointed?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Fucked. Up.
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, that is disturbing.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Meanwhile…
“the only relations that God recognizes and tolerates as not sinful, are a husband and a wife”
I’d like to think he’s overreaching
Barbara
Things I don’t care about:
–How Megan and Harry navigate the complexity of their status after QE2–
–Whether William will be able to handle the pressure of being next in line–
–Camilla’s formal title
I do care about the fate of the queen’s corgis. Did she really ask for them to be euthanized? That would be ghastly.
Go Joe. We are so much better off without a monarchy and MSM slobbering over them is disgusting.
topclimber
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Make the Colonies Great (British) Again!
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I wish straight people in non-marital relationship would get offended too.
Eunicecycle
@WaterGirl: No none that I can see.
Eunicecycle
@sab: the only good thing for me is, I will be in Emilia Sykes district if she wins!
zhena gogolia
@Barbara: No, she didn’t. It was a stupid joke. At one point she said she wasn’t going to get any more because she didn’t want them to outlive her, but she seems to have changed her mind and gotten a few in recent years. But there is no question of euthanizing them.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Barbara: I am certain the euthanasia thing was not real. What she had said was that she didn’t want to keep breeding them because she didn’t want to leave any young dogs behind. Here is WaPo on the doggies (“gift article” so you should be able to view it).
topclimber
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Actually, the Old Testament sanctions a lot of “man and wives marriages,” not to mention concubines galore.
Baud
@topclimber:
“God wanted me to have this, honey.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
Via Rick Wilson, Donald Trump hasn’t truthed for 20 hours.
Maybe he stroked out.
Or, I suppose, his new lawyer gagged him.
Ken
I got the definite impression that they don’t care about it either.
My main worry was whether wikipedia could handle the change, but pages are being updated at blinding speed. It reminds me of the scene in 1984 where the Ministry of Truth changes all the records to show that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
topclimber
@Baud: Sometimes the old ways are the best.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Appointed. One positive (hopefully) outcome of these dreadful maps was that my district – OH#1 is all in the city of Cincinnati, which is very blue. In the past the city was divided between OH#1 (Chabot) and OH#2 (Brad Wenstrup). Cook has called this “Republican Toss Up”. Dem candidate Greg Landsman is on the DCC Red to Blue List. Per Red to Blue web site:
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: All this flaunting of the law and flaunting of norms makes me crazy.
Barbara
@Ken: I was just paraphrasing the headlines I have already seen this morning in my news feed.
I thought the thing about the corgis had to be false. I mean, who would do that?
WereBear
@Baud: In the Mormon religion just to make it clear.
StringOnAStick
@Barbara: The corgis will not be euthanized; she changed her mind a while after that statement.
zhena gogolia
@StringOnAStick: She never intended to euthanize any dogs! She was just going to stop acquiring them so that the ones she had would die of natural causes before she did.
Heidi Mom
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sometimes I think that if I won a large enough lottery I’d hire hundreds of private investigators to probe the backgrounds of every one of these smarmy hypocrites.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Dante has to come back and create a whole new iteration of a circle of hell for the Ohio Republican Party. I’m trying to find a cogent summary of where we stand with the maps (other than the fact we ended up using Rethug drawn maps for both legislature and Federal). It’s so confusing. I had seen a very good summary awhile back and can’t find it.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Projection.
Lil’ Marco knows what God approves of:
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Short summary, for state legislature and federal districts in 2022 we will be using unconstitutional maps which state Supreme Court declared unconstitutional then its ruling was superseded by a Federal Court. Then new maps are supposed to be produced for 2024 using this same commission process. Would be great to have Dem governor and Secretary of State because governor and SOS are both on Districting Commission.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
I like King Jug Ears but this speech was particularly dull
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: The Queen dying is the kind of 100% predictable event that you can easily prepare for.
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: Maddening and deeply distressing.
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: My blood is boiling with outrage.
Juju
I think William will have time to figure things out.
If people don’t make a horse whinny sound when they call Camilla whatever they decide is appropriate, I’m sure it will be fine.
If the queen can’t find a good home for her dogs, then who can?
ian
@Barbara: It was all a twitter joke. The thing with twitter is that a lot of twitter jokes don’t make sense to non-twitter people. So when people tweet jokes about euthanizing corgis, those of us in non-twit land don’t seem to find it very funny, for some strange reason.
WaterGirl
@Matt McIrvin:
From a business perspective that may be true, but not so true when there is an emotional component to something.
Calouste
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Give the man a break. His mom just died, he got a new job, and he’ll be moving house soon.
Amir Khalid
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Come on. If there’s one thing we all know about TFG, it’s that he has never truthed in his life. Not even once.
Ken
Found at Popehat, TFG’s lawsuit against Hillary Clinton et al for conspiring to try to win the 2016 election by saying mean things about him has been dismissed.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Mine too, WG.
Eunicecycle
@Ken: I just read that this lawsuit was filed in Ft. Pierce back in March trying to get Judge Cannon! But by some twist of fate, it was assigned elsewhere, and Trump tried to get the judge to recuse because he was appointed by Bill Clinton. And the judge called him out on it. Lastly, Bobb was the attorney who wrote the abomination.
Anyway
@Baud:
i am deeply offended.
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Live coverage of the fucking coronation and no live coverage of Biden’s speeches?!
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Oh, I see you arrived at my point.