I feel like No Child Left Behind left these people in a hot car with the windows rolled up because the level of stupidity has got to be from not having enough oxygen to the brain. Bish what!!!!!!? pic.twitter.com/pianvAou6H
— Lady Whistledown in the Hood (@colorfullstory) May 31, 2023
Yeah, I too would like to believe it’s a parody, but have you heard the ‘chemtrails!!!’ people talk?
Cover by Curt Swan & Stan Kaye. #Superman pic.twitter.com/lBlKxFPAm9
— ComicsintheGoldenAge (@ComicsintheGA) June 1, 2023
Props to the decadent coastal elites of… Ohio:
Happy #PrideMonth. In June and all year round, we celebrate our Ohio LGBTQ+ friends & neighbors.
No one should ever feel afraid or ashamed because of who they are and who they love. We won’t stop fighting for equal rights for all.
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) June 1, 2023
Another Big Biden Deal:
BREAKING: The Senate has given final approval to the debt ceiling and budget cuts package, fending off a U.S. default just days before the deadline. The bipartisan deal now goes to President Joe Biden's desk and he is expected to quickly sign. https://t.co/hh3JcZZmhX
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 2, 2023
ETA:
Biden will address the nation on averting default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement on Friday at 7pm from the Oval Office.
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) June 2, 2023
Furthermore…
There was a lot of news coverage predicting a Memorial Day air travel meltdown. There was less coverage after cancellation rates turned out to be below 1 percent — much lower than normal.
As Chuck Todd puts it, no news is good news. pic.twitter.com/AJd8UwOsC8
— Ben Halle (@bhalle87) June 1, 2023
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
Biden should veto the bill and issue the coin!
Spanky
So the WaPo has the score of who voted what way. Dems voting nay were Fetterman, Markey, Merkley, and Warren. The Independent voting nay was Bernie. Sinema was an aye, in other words.
Baud
@Spanky:
The only thing that’s important is that we don’t have to worry about it again for the rest of Biden’s first term.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@rikyrah:
Good morning
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud:
Exactly, the rest is political theater. As Fetterman said, he would have voted for it if his vote was needed to pass it. I know some people get wound up about performative votes, but MOC and Senators have to respond to their constituencies as well as the need of their party. That’s why smart leaders don’t object to the occasional performative vote.
Betty Cracker
Now that the hostages have been ransomed, I wonder if Team Biden will follow up on comments the president made in the runup to passing this bill about exploring whether the debt ceiling is constitutional while NOT on the brink of financial disaster. Could he argue that the administration has standing because of potential future crises? Does it make any sense to give the corrupt GOP majority on the SCOTUS an opportunity to shoot down the 14th Amendment argument while NOT under pressure to avert a GOP-made financial catastrophe? I have no idea, but the hostage takers will strike again when they have the chance.
SFAW
@Baud:
Chief Justice Alito says “Hold my
beerglass of Lafite Rothschild, libtard!” and issues an SUPER-DOUBLE EMERGENCY Stay because … something something mumble fairness mumble Sleepy Joe something.[Yes, I know it’s not really their purview. But given their recent willingness to say “screw that!”, I am no longer certain.]
Rugosa
@Spanky: This was a protest vote against the SNAP cuts, etc, in the bill. Warren said earlier she’d decide her vote on whether the bill would pass.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Betty Cracker:
A commenter mentioned the other day that courts don’t offer advisory opinions, meaning they won’t get involved until a default actually happens or is imminent
SFAW
I gotta say, I could feel my brain cells being destroyed while listening to that “fountain rainbows are a evul plot” from that moron. Holy shit.
Geminid
@Baud: Another important aspect is that Congressional Democrats came out of this unified. The “Aye” voters and “Nay” voters are not picking on each other.
The larger universe of Democrats seems fairly unified as well, with few recriminations. This was very different two weeks ago.
eclare
I guess Sec Pete was too prepared for Memorial Day travel.
Tony Jay
@SFAW:
I mean, she’s right though, isn’t she? Twenty years ago light refraction was just another way of ordering a sandwich with no crusts, so what else could it be oozing out of your ground but Gay Fluids?
zhena gogolia
@SFAW: That’s why I didn’t watch. I have few enough of them left
narya
I think it is important and useful to have folks like Warren and Fetterman be able to (a) state their reasons for opposition and (b) also say they would have supported it if their votes were needed to avoid default. Their opposition allows the Dems, and the nays specifically, to identify what they think are issues with the R approach to budgeting and governance.
rikyrah
NR_Garrett (@NR_Garrett) tweeted at 0:11 PM on Sun, May 21, 2023:
While the media breathlessly hangs on every word of GOP hysteria about the debt limit “negotiations”, I await Joe Biden to do what he always does, competently solve the issue and then get absolutely zero credit
We will then watch as media& GOP move on to next “outrage”
#bookIt
(https://twitter.com/NR_Garrett/status/1660332461539115015?t=IpAIVoGSadK4GStjpb0_Ig&s=03)
Geminid
I was surprised when so many House Democrats voted for the bill. I thought they would begrudgingly put up enough Yays to pass the bill. Instead, they jumped on the bill like they owned it.
Someone said that at one point, Jeffries held up a green card and then the Yay votes came rolling in. An interesting report; maybe it will be confirmed by others.
rikyrah
🤣🤣🤣
BenR (@Earth_Sheep_Ben) tweeted at 6:49 AM on Thu, Jun 01, 2023:
Was just called a f*ggot by a random woman on the street, but she clearly wasn’t expecting the “clearly you don’t have one in your life if you’re dressed like that” reply. Her friends started laughing and she turned all colours of red. B*tch don’t come for the gays. https://t.co/dmTcFnlhkv
(https://twitter.com/Earth_Sheep_Ben/status/1664237672410300418?t=KF45TjQclsYfoj8frvXxow&s=03)
OverTwistWillie
DC and Archie were the last to drop the CCA.
From wiki:
Moral panic now, moral panic tomorrow, moral panics forever!
rikyrah
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) tweeted at 7:20 AM on Fri, Jun 02, 2023:
Good morning to everyone who’s relieved that we don’t have to deal w/the debt ceiling madness for 2 more years & can get down to the business of winning elections.
* Keeping the White House
* Expanding the Senate
* Retaking the House
* Local elections everywhere
#BidenHarris2024 https://t.co/y2eqTahSDl
(https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1664607923606282242?t=zNJgykIZ1Pk-bDKkcWi8lw&s=03)
Betty
With regard to rainbows oozing out of the ground, a fellow who helps with our yard work believed the rainbows we see were rising up out of the nearby river. Not sure he ever accepted our explanation.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah: That’s called self-confidence!
@narya: I think that’s right. And when I saw Fetterman and, even more, Warren were among the nays, I trusted it was a reasonable vote.
@zhena gogolia: You are missing something special. (insert eye roll)
NotMax
Media mention: couple of items newish to Prime via Freevee.
1) Murdoch Mysteries – first season only, though (still going after 16 seasons). Takes a few early episodes to find its footing; stick with it. If pressed to summarize, might say it’s, very broadly speaking, a less dysfunctional Monk. (Multiple seasons on Hulu (13), on Hoopla (15), and on Acorn (16).)
2) Long time two thumbs pointed straight skyward for Bagdad Cafe. Not so much a traditionally served up movie as a 109 minute extended skit artistically dancing to within sight of – but never crossing – the border of Absurdistan, all the disparate pieces allowed free rein to come to the fore and meld to create the whole at their own individual pace. (Also available on Tubi and Kanopy.)
Yes, that’s Jack Palance in a supporting role as a freewheeling aging hippie painter.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
What will happen when they realize just how pervasive rainbow wokiness is. Physics classes teach “how light makes rainbows”. There’s that song from “Wizard of Oz” that became kind of a signature song for Judy Garland. And so many other songs. Especially kids songs (grooming! OMG!) Those woke people even slipped it into the Bible in the Noah story!
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
Was that really Marjorie Taylor Greene? Not to give her any credit, but it was so utterly stupid that I thought it must be a spoof.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW: Thanks for taking one for the team. Even horses’ asses believe in physics, but not her I guess.
oatler
Utah is a trailblazer. If a page records a penis entering an orifice, it’s porn.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4031148-king-james-bible-to-be-removed-from-utah-school-library-shelves-in-younger-grades/
rikyrah
😒😒😒😡😡😡
Hope Restored In DFW (@Kennymack1971) tweeted at 7:40 AM on Fri, Jun 02, 2023:
So there was an agreement in place to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and Trump ended that but if he’d been reelected he would’ve made a deal to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
And the media misses this. Good lord.
(https://twitter.com/Kennymack1971/status/1664612981223698432?t=Oo2T6sltEVrtw5IU8Oq6TQ&s=03)
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: You got at least two brain cells you can rub together.
Kathleen
Deleted. Not worth it.
NotMax
@OverTwistWillie
if you’ve ever read the book it’s plain as day Wertham had more than a few screws loose. Axe grinding down so far as to eradicate any functional edge.
Still, the CCA was partially responsible for MAD switching from comic book to magazine format, so that counts as a silver lining.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Re the rainbow tiktok.
The video is identified as coming from “majorhustler.” I went to tiktok and searched for majorhustler’s account, and this video popped up attributing it to Rosanne Barr. It does kind of sound like her. I think the major was making fun. So then I searched for Rosanne Barr’s account, which I found, but I don’t see this video there on the first few screens.
End of my cyber-sleuthing.
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
Have you read this piece?https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/anatomy-of-a-murder-democratic-party-florida?r=lh890&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webWhat's your take? This seems a very good explanation of the Dem problem in FL.
John S.
Hilarious that clip is filmed in Seattle.
Having moved to WA from FL, I can definitively say that LGBTQ+ are far more welcome here. And from what I can tell, even the conservatives here in western WA could give a shit about the culture war being waged on them elsewhere.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
You’re a braver one than I, Gunga DAW.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@John S.: I thought that you meant that there was enough sunlight to even make a rainbow.
SFAW
@zhena gogolia:
I have so few, I’ve given them all names I can remember.
James E Powell
@Betty Cracker:
I’d guess they will ignore the issue for now. The next election is what matters. We need big enough majorities in both houses to end it. Even then, I’m not sure if they will do it.
I’m also not sure why we even have a debt ceiling.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I find that a higher-than-ideal percentage of Republicans-looking-ridiculous stuff on the Internet is parody.
Nukular Biskits
Mornin’, ya’ll!
75 degrees/75% humidity here on MS Gulf Coast. Would anyone like me to share that humidity with them?
James E Powell
Good morning. Agree completely.
Steeplejack
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Thank you for your sleuthing.
SFAW
@rikyrah:
A tweet found in the replies to the one you linked:
“Maybe President Biden tripped today because he hasn’t yet fully recovered from breaking off his foot in McCarthy’s ass during their final #DebtCeiling clash”
schrodingers_cat
They would have voted yes if their votes were needed but they are voting no because they love theater and drama to actual governance. They preserved their purity of essence.
Also I am waiting for FP posts how partnering with J. D. Vance is progressive.
mrmoshpotato
@Nukular Biskits: No thanks.
Josie
OT: I just read that the prosecutors in Paxton’s trial have hired Dick Deguerin and Rusty Hardin to lead the team. For those not versed in Texas lore, these are two of the heaviest hitters in the legal defense field in this state. Someone powerful really does not like Paxton. I am looking forward to this.
Spanky
Years and years ago there was a Youtube video of a woman lamenting the End of Days as signified in the rainbow in her hose mist. I think this was before rainbow=gay, too.
BTW, did I miss the hysteria over Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover?
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Baud:
“He isn’t even trying to fulfill progressive wishes! He’s selling us out again, and we should punish Dems at the ballot box!”
– FireDogLake commenter, circa 2009-2010
Steeplejack
@Nukular Biskits:
Dude, please. Gotta be 90°/90% before we can be bothered here in D.C.
I think we actually might break 90° today for the first time this year. Humidity only 65%, though.
Tony Jay
Come and listen to my story about a dumb airhead
A poor Tik-Tocker, with a brain half dead,
And then one day she was cruisin’ like a fool,
And up through the ground came a spray’a gay ooze.
queer-oil that is, same-sex gold, trans tea.
Well the next thing you know ol Zed can hear them jeer,
Her kinfolk begged “Zed, just move away from here”
Said “Florida is the place you ought to be”
So she loaded up her truck and she moved to Okeechobee
Swampy hills, that is. DeSantis fools, gator farms.
With all apologies to B. Cracker and Co.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Betty Cracker:
I think that would be a forbidden declaratory judgment, as I remember.
prostratedragon
Why oh why (solo piano version)
mrmoshpotato
@Josie: Delicious.
schrodingers_cat
@Spanky: Everyone here loves to hate on her but she has been more of a team player than the sainted New England senator and and the leap year Democrat from Vt.
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker: I hope his administration at least takes a shot at it, but given this SCOTUS, it seems like our most likely solution will require a) Dem majorities in the House and Senate (REAL Dems, not Sinema & Manchin) and b) a vote to raise the debt ceiling to $456,000,000,000,000 or some other laughable sum.* **
*and even then, the GOP will sue, demanding a “reasonable, reachable limit to government spending”. Fuck ’em!
**if the Dems really want to troll the shit out of the GQP, they should make the new debt ceiling start with a ‘666’
Steeplejack
@Tony Jay:
Excellent! 🪕
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Steeplejack: Coming from a cold and snowy place, two things always used to jar me about DC weather reports when I lived in that area.
Actually three things: Gardening columns in the Post that would discuss putting your first crop in the ground in February. That was midwinter for me as a kid.
sdhays
@oatler: Finally some consistency in how these definitions get applied! I’m gratified that the Bible is now correctly identified as porn and will be regulated accordingly, just as the baby Jesus demands.
Ken
Which reminds me, where is the vote to oust McCarthy? Before passage of the bill, several prominent Republicans swore they were going to call for one. I want my vicious but still comical Republican infighting!
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Theme from Bagdad Cafe. It’s sung here by Jevetta Steele, who was prominent in The Gospel at Colonus.
rikyrah
The MSM has a sad😒😒😒
Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) tweeted at 7:31 AM on Fri, Jun 02, 2023:
Holy moly, jobs growth comes in hot again.
Payrolls +339k
Unemployment rate up a tick to 3.7% suggesting a weaker household survey
Revisions are big: +52k for March, +41k for April.
Don’t believe the doom-and-gloom talk.
This economy is motoring along.
(https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1664610800638603267?t=zPoRfpqHbRgc5zEBRmOHDw&s=03)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@schrodingers_cat:
What’s this in reference to?
sdhays
@Jeffro: Just restore the Gephardt Rule – passing a spending bill automatically approves whatever is necessary to pay for it.
Cameron
@SFAW: I did the same thing: “person,” “woman,” “man,” “camera,” “TV.” I’ve been told that’s all I need to know.
schrodingers_cat
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): This
Cameron
@Nukular Biskits: I’m here on FL Gulf Coast. Got plenty of humidity of our own, thanks.
NotMax
@Spanky
“Paging Mr. Biv. Mr. Roy G. Biv. Please pick up the pure white courtesy phone.”
//
Glidwrith
Wait a minute, regarding the debt ceiling deal: we just had the ceiling lifted by negotiating a budget. Would this mean, like what happened before Gingrich, that one could consider the debt ceiling as deemed and passed?
Did we just get a Biden jujitsu of eliminating the hostage taking?
sdhays
@Ken: This is one area where McQarthy does seem to have outsmarted someone – the Freedumb Carcass. He gave them that seemingly valuable concession and it has turned out to be useless.
It turns out that when you don’t have a credible candidate to replace your leader waiting in the wings, triggering a vote to depose the Speaker isn’t much of a threat, especially when it could potentially leave the House shut down so that all your shitty committees can’t do anything.
sdhays
@Glidwrith: No. It has just been raised so that we estimate it won’t be a problem for another year and a half.
Ken
@Jeffro: @sdhays: I’d prefer they pass a law that the debt ceiling automatically increases to match any spending authorized by Congress. The Gephart rule had the same effect but since it was just a Congressional parliamentary rule, it could be (and was) readily set aside.
Actually I’d prefer they got rid of it entirely, but the above would be easier to pass, I’d think.
Baud
@rikyrah:
The looming recession has been predicted for almost as long as the second coming.
raven
From my friend Kade
Trans Kids Who Survived
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Its more a wish casting than a prediction IMHO.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Sounds more like the Republicans are trying to jump on the populist bandwagon than the other way around.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
It really is. It’s incredible to watch.
Betty Cracker
@geg6: I hadn’t seen that, so thanks for the link! I think Schale’s fundamental point, that the party was hollowed out in favor outside funding orgs that failed to take care of the basic blocking and tackling that state parties do, is correct.
He glosses over other contributing factors. He didn’t mention entrenched consultants who are paid enormous sums for bad advice every cycle; they are a huge part of the fail package, IMO. Also, in 2008, the Obama people mostly operated independently of the state party because they could see it was weak, a point he elides.
I’d also quibble with a few of his other points, e.g., that the money people who ended up ineffectively running things tried to cram progressivism down an unwilling state’s throat to the party’s detriment. You don’t run ex-Repub Charlie “Snake Eyes” Crist twice in that scenario. But overall, it’s on point, as is his remedy, i.e., tear it down to the studs and start over.
HinTN
@zhena gogolia:
I thought that rainbow was beautiful. As for the idiocy, maroons gotta maroon. I had a chemtrails convert in my office for several years in the teens. Even my conservative (not MAGA grade, thank FSM) boss rolled his eyes.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Whatever it is, partnering with a rabid xenophobe is tone-deaf.
Jeffro
@OverTwistWillie: I remember back when Marvel Comics was the first to drop the code’s seal from their covers…ooo ooo, so edgy! They even advertised it on some of the comics (X-Force, maybe?)
And then they put out their “MAX” line, and some of that was edgy. =)
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat:
Voting against this bill (like Warren, Sanders, and Fetterman) was a performative vote. The votes were there to pass it. Simema and Manchin have actually tanked or al least delayed Dem priorities. That is the fundamental difference. Having all of them in the party is simply a function of having a big tent. The people on the edges can cause headaches, but they are all needed.
eclare
@Tony Jay:
Bravo!
rikyrah
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) tweeted at 8:04 AM on Fri, Jun 02, 2023:
“If you haven’t figured out by now that our president is in the top 1% of negotiators, you haven’t been paying attention the last two and a half years,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)
https://t.co/i2ipqpd7bV
(https://twitter.com/tify330/status/1664618929220734978?t=PnpjJsTt7c2WEBAQSWUtqw&s=03)
rikyrah
@Tony Jay:
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾☺️
Roger Moore
@Baud:
The people predicting an imminent recession have predicted 7 of the last 4 recessions.
Geminid
The Labor Department just released a good jobs report. The WTOP news reader said it exceeded expectations, with well over 300,000 jobs gained.
The unemployment rate did rise 3 points, but that was from 3.4% in April to 3.7% in May.
Jeffro
@sdhays:
@Ken:
I’m good with any of the three solutions, with getting rid of it being the most preferable of course!
I’m probably a little too pleased with my “raise it to some astronomical number that starts with $666, to troll the Rs” idea. They’re turning me into a bitter, hollow shell of my former self as I try think of ways to get the entire GOP to stroke out. Someone send me some nobler thoughts and higher aspirations, stat!
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Manchin needs to get reelected in WVa which is very red so his theatrics do serve some purpose. Sinema rightly gets trashed here all the time and in most instances it is well deserved but the performative leftists get praised for their performative stunts.
Anyone with a D next to their name would win those seats so these protest votes achieve zilch other than attacking the Democratic party from the left. What progress have these showboats actually achieved.
prostratedragon
Spanky
@rikyrah: Well, I dunno. “Not paying attention” is not the same thing as “spewing alternate facts”
Jeffro
Truth. We are going on 4 or 5 Friedman Units at this point, I think? It’s getting a little tiresome.
brendancalling
“Water, fire, air, and dirt
Fucking
magnetsrainbows, how do they work?And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed”
BlueGuitarist
@prostratedragon:
The Gospel at Colonus is amazing!
for those not yet familiar, a brilliant merging of the text by Sophocles with the blues/African American church tradition – youtube has a version filmed for PBS great performances:
in addition to Jevetta Steele (Ismene), cast includes
Morgan Freeman (messenger) Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama (Oedipus), Isabell O’Connor (Antigone), Robert Earl Jones (Creon), the Soul Stirrers….
https://youtu.be/8ZyQP_zrD2U
about 90 minutes.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Who is praising them here? The impression I get is that most people are reacting as I did. The bill passed with votes to spare and no drama on the D side. C’est tout.
Spanky
@Jeffro: Well, one piece of anecdata: Morningstar.com has moved on from “how not to get creamed by the coming recession” (loose approximation of a dozen or so articles) to “Why Vanguard sees a brighter outlook for investors’ portfolios”, so maybe some people are starting to move on.
BlueGuitarist
@Betty Cracker:
@geg6:
thanks!
My first thought when I saw it was, I wonder what BC thinks!
RevRick
In other good news for John McCain, Biden’s job approval polling sucks. Meanwhile, according to a YouGov poll in matchups with Trump and DeSantis, Biden beats Trump 48-41, and DeSantis 46-40. Since Biden won by 4% in 2020, this indicates he is in terrible shape electorally.
PAM Dirac
@sdhays:
Not exactly. The language says that there is no debt limit at all until Jan 1, 2025. There is some additional language that resets the debt limit on Jan 2, 2025, but I don’t understand it enough to get the bottom line. As always, the only real solution to this mess is to elect people that will govern somewhere in the neighborhood of reality.
Roger Moore
@Geminid:
The unemployment rate (or U-3, which is what is usually reported) can behave counterintuitively because it only includes people actively looking for jobs. If the economy improves enough that people who weren’t looking change their minds, it can actually cause U-3 to go up. You’re better off looking either at broader measures of unemployment (e.g. U-6, which includes things like people who are working part time because they can’t find a full-time job) or at something like the labor participation rate.
U-6 is close to all-time lows, but the labor participation rate still hasn’t recovered to pre-pandemic levels. That suggests to me that there’s more slack in the economy than you’d expect from the U-3 or even U-6 unemployment rates.
NotMax
@Geminid
Not the whole story but the writers going on strike in May (and any concomitant production unit delays/shutdowns) must have played a part in that tiny upward tick.
Jackie
@Rugosa: I’m chuckling about more Dems than Repugs voted *Yea* in BOTH chambers. But, it’s “McCarthy’s bill.” That’s gotta stick in his craw, privately, while he’s crowing publicly.
And Biden knows it😊
Nukular Biskits
@Steeplejack:
Oh, trust me. It’ll get there. Probably the only reason we’re not already at +85% is that tropical system in the Gulf is pulling drier air from the north.
Geminid
@Roger Moore: Well, I mentioned the U-3, but I understand how these things work. I thought .3% rise actually made the report a better one: jobs added and more people entering the workforce as well.
Gravenstone
There was all manner of conservative butt hurt over the band choosing to have a rainbow on the official logo commemorating the 50th anniversary of the album. So many claiming to be long time Floyd fans, who apparently never looked at the original album cover?
Ken
@Nukular Biskits: I clearly need more caffeine this morning. I checked the NOAA hurricane site for that tropical depression, saw the big label “TWO” on the map, and thought “Twoh? We can’t be up to the letter ‘T’ already…”
Nukular Biskits
@Cameron:
Whereabouts, if I may ask?
Burnspbesq
@Betty Cracker:
That’s very close to the (bullshit) theory of standing concocted by the (crackpot) district judge from Amarillo in the mifepristone case. I’m reasonably certain you don’t want to go there.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I am not just talking about this thread or you in particular. A quick Google search will reveal the fawning coverage AOC and EW get on this blog
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: Ooooh, child. That was one snappy comeback!
Nukular Biskits
@Ken:
LOL!
Cameron
@prostratedragon: Pretty impressive – he managed to accurately and briefly communicate his xenophobia and racism using Gibberish instead of more traditional English.
Wapiti
@Glidwrith: Yes, as far as I understand it. Biden got past this debt ceiling, and the budget fight expected for September-October 2023, and the budget fight expected for September-October 2024.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat:
Our mileage varies. Especially as fawning is loaded word. I will certainly grant that the weight of opinion here is more favorable to those two than yours is, but that isn’t too difficult to achieve, is it?
Matt McIrvin
@NotMax: Bagdad Cafe is one of those movies that I’m a bit afraid to watch again because I don’t know if they’ll hold up since my critical faculties evolved. I remember it as just this pleasant film about peculiar, nice people learning to be happy.
Burnspbesq
@Josie:
Cool, but it’s still going to take 20 votes in the Senate to boot him permanently. Color me dubious.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I am aware that I am an outlier here.
Cameron
@Nukular Biskits: Manatee County
Matt McIrvin
@BlueGuitarist: I’ve never seen that but having read Oedipus at Colonus, it sounds like a brilliant way to put some interest into something that basically has no story to begin with–“old man yells at cloud” for the length of an entire play.
Betty Cracker
Disney’s lawsuit against DeSantis was originally assigned to a judge appointed by President Obama. DeSantis requested recusal, and the judge did recuse, but not for the reason the DeSantis people requested; instead, the judge said he’d found a “third-degree relative” owned some Disney stock. The case has been assigned to a Trump appointee.
This seems shady to me, but I have a suspicious nature.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Jackie: Heh – yep. So much for the “Hastert rule” (gee, why don’t they call it that anymore?)
Republicans in disarray
PAM Dirac
@Wapiti: Again, not quite. The debt limit does not exist through Jan 1, 2025 and then it reappears, meaning that any debt ceiling issues will be dealt with after the next Congress is sworn in. For appropriations, there is a default appropriation mechanism that kicks in with a appropriation of a 1% cut for any appropriations not passed by Jan 1. Since the fiscal year starts on Oct 1, that means that there is a possibility of shutdowns from Oct 1 to Dec 31, but not after.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: That was one of my mom’s favorite movies.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@schrodingers_cat: So it’s just your usual axe-grinding, then?
Burnspbesq
@Spanky:
Stock market Cassandras have correctly predicted eight out of the last five recessions.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Maybe the Trump judge hates DeSantis as much as Trump does. 🤣
Matt McIrvin
@Roger Moore: Though in general, I think people make more of the differences between those various unemployment measures than they should, because nearly all the time, they move in parallel.
I recall that back during the Great Recession there was a site called “ShadowStats” that took advantage of people’s vague idea that there were different unemployment measures to pull sort of a trick; they had their own “real” unemployment number that was none of the official ones, but seemed to have been contrived to move in parallel with the other ones until Obama took office and then go completely bananas. They claimed that “real unemployment” was worse in 2013 than it had been in 2010, which was just contrary to experience.
Citizen Alan
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): On the other hand, there is a legal doctrine called “capable of repetition but evading review.” It applies when a petitioner is no longer subject to whatever effects they were suing about but the situation can potentially arise again.. It’s why jane roe continued to have standing to attack abortion restrictions even though she was no longer pregnant when the case finally made it to SCOTUS.
JCJ
@brendancalling: Always good to quote the wise philosophers of Insane Clown Posse
Cameron
Apropos nothing, in doing his follow-up to my colonoscopy last Friday, the doctor assured me that he found no evidence of a Ron DeSantis campaign event there.
Fake Irishman
@geg6:
I read this yesterday, and I’m glad you shared it here. Steve Schale is a guy who has put in the work; a committed Dem party worker and organizer (a “hack” as he would put it) and very clear eyed about opportunities and problems, as well as an unabashed Florida Man.
I used to love to read his voting updates in 2016, 2018 and 2020, though each one ended in a nightmare.
He’s also put a ton of time into mentoring young politicians and aspiring politicians in places like Thailand and the Philippines because he believes in democracy.
He’s also a really good golfer and loves making fun of his declining skills on Twitter. He once told the coolest story on Twitter about getting his then-80 something grandmother on Sawgrass (the course where they play the PGA championship) and how she legit birdied the 17th hole (which famously has a very tough green surrounded by water).
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@schrodingers_cat: This is one lefty political forum that isn’t dominated by small-s socialists, so I don’t see how the occasional pro-AOC comment here makes this a place where your politics (which I generally agree with) are an outlier viewpoint.
My rep and one of my Senators were also performative “Nay” votes. Not my preference, but it’s politics…
Ohio Mom
Twitter is down. Maybe this is how it end, not with a bang but with:
“(Name of account holder) hasn’t Tweeted
When they do, their Tweets will show up here.“
So much for whiling away the morning on the internet…
skerry
I’m glad we don’t have to worry about the debt limit for two years but I’m furious that Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pipeline has been greenlighted in this bill. We can’t afford to keep expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and hope to slow climate change.
Fake Irishman
@Fake Irishman:
More To the point of Schale’s piece though, I really appreciate is basic argument, which is more or less “Look, if you want a strong, vibrant and representative state Democratic Party that can make policy and get things done, you have to, you know, invest in the actual state Democratic Party while taking into account the context of your state.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Ohio Mom:
It’s working for me.
NotMax
@Ohio Mom
There’s always someone or something better, netwise.
:)
Aussie Sheila
@schrodingers_cat:
I thought the ideal of ‘get ‘er done’ was supposed to be the antidote to ‘starry eyed’ idealists like Warren and disloyal poopy heads like Sanders? Shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good and all that eh?
Matt McIrvin
…There’s some noise in the U-3 but it still seems to be kicking around a low that is the lowest unemployment has been since the boom of the late 1960s.
We might get a new recession next year. But what is it they usually say–that the condition of the economy in the early quarters of the election year is usually what’s predictive? We’re running out of time for it to really bite hard. The massive temporary recession induced by COVID was a really unusual case, but if you go back to the Great Recession before that, the unemployment low was in about mid-2007 and despite the real-estate bubble already collapsing in some regions (around here it had burst in 2006), it really took more than a year before the collapsing economy became the big news story. We could still get something like that for 2024 but if that’s going to happen, things need to start going really bad very soon. And if anything I see some things improving especially in the stock market.
trollhattan
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
“Cancel culture” at work, sheeple!
cain
@Omnes Omnibus: My senator the great Jeff Merkley did not vote for it and he had good reasons I think.
Glad nobody tried to tack anything on that bill as a poison pill.
Omnes Omnibus
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: Not trying to psychoanalyze s_c, but just riffing off this conversation. There are a lot of people who don’t like the nitty gritty of politicking. Performative votes, state fairs, calling assholes on the other side “my friend,” logrolling for legislation, etc. The messy human stuff. That was part of the appeal of Warren to many in 2020. She had well thought out plans for everything and they just made sense. At the same time, it’s why people at first overlooked Biden. He is good at the messy human stuff and that can get overlooked.
schrodingers_cat
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: You can call it whatever you want but attacks from the left flank were instrumental in HRC losing 2016. We lost our House majority in no small part because of the extremely stupid slogan of Defund the Police.
The posturing is not without consequence. I am an outlier because if Trump (or one of Republican clones) wins in 2024 it will affect me and mine far more than many here.
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay: well done.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Many of her plans were copy and paste without giving proper credit to the original authors.
topclimber
@schrodingers_cat: I do admire you but sometimes you seem not to read the entirety of what you post to support your evidence.
“Other Democratic Senate Banking Committee members sponsoring the legislation include New Mexico Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman.”
“Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown has voiced his support for clawing back executive pay for failed bankers, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer last month that ‘We need to send a message to bankers, they operate this way, they lose their compensation.’ ”
Ksmiami
@Geminid: err .3 points.. sorry to be a pain, but that’s actually a significant difference vs 3 points
Geminid
@Matt McIrvin: I like to think that Democrats passed their counter-cyclical spending during the last Congress, with the Infrastructure, CHIPS and IRA bills.
Geminid
@Ksmiami: You have a point there.
Ksmiami
@Ohio Mom: yep it says Tom Nichols hasn’t tweeted…
oh well, it was fun while it lasted and before it became a Nazi bar,
smith
We have performance artists on the left who serve the same function that the performance artists on the right do: They push the edges of the Overton window in the desired direction and expand the universe of what is considered politically feasible. In my opinion, our performance artists deserve a certain amount of the credit for the noticeable movement of the Democratic party leftward in the last ten years, as well as for engaging young people in political issues that are meaningful to them. Their grandstanding can be irritating, and can sometimes open rifts that have political downsides (e.g., the purity ponies who wouldn’t vote for Hillary), but it seems to me on balance the effects are worthwhile.
owlbrick
Re: the rainbow video… apparently this video is comedy, but the audio is taken from a video posted in 2007 and reposted previously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8
Ksmiami
@Geminid: lol the point is the point…
Roger Moore
@Matt McIrvin:
The Shadow Stats stuff was just bonkers. I remember looking at their “real” inflation rate, which said my real income had actually decreased since I started working. It was just completely contradicted by my lived experience.
I think this was their basic shtick. They had some stuff that might possibly have made sense as one-time adjustments, but they were applying them every year. The trick is that they were looking at things where you need some fancy statistical wrangling to see real differences over a short time. That meant people’s personal experience wouldn’t be able to contradict the short-term numbers they were putting out; people can’t really tell the difference between 1% and 3% inflation over one year. They probably can’t tell the difference over a 3-4 years, either. But when you look at the differences over decades, it becomes really stark.
topclimber
Deleted thanks to edit function.
Kay
Betty C had a post the other day about parent pushback to the book bans, gay bans, attacks on public schools, etc.
i was contacted by this group – not about book bans, about Ohio’s reproductive choice amendment, but if anyone is interested you can check them out here.
It’s called Red Wine and Blue and it’s kind of a clearinghouse for some of the womens groups that have popped up around supporting public schools and reproductive rights. I had an email exchange with them and did not tell them what we are doing here because some of the volunteers are uncomfortable with communications with outsiders and their personal safety in the current climate, so I can’t endorse them or anything- just if you’re interested.
Kelly
@Ohio Mom: I get that, then it’s OK. Back and forth.
BC in Illinois
Tweet of the morning, for me:
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@schrodingers_cat: I completely agree with you about 2016.
Matt McIrvin
The tech industry had what felt like a localized recession in early 2023, with high-profile big layoffs, but now the hype over AI has investor money flowing in again, for better or for worse.
Inflation has been dropping since the middle of last year, which might eventually motivate the Fed to loosen the screws a little.
topclimber
@schrodingers_cat: Thanks for the link. I especially like these two paragraphs:
Other Democratic Senate Banking Committee members sponsoring the legislation include New Mexico Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown has voiced his support for clawing back executive pay for failed bankers, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer last month that “We need to send a message to bankers, they operate this way, they lose their compensation.”
Thanks for pointing out how EW is in the party’s mainstream on this.
WaterGirl
@BC in Illinois: That’s awesome!
WhatsMyNym
@schrodingers_cat:
I wouldn’t say that, but you don’t miss an opportunity to speak about it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
The thing is that grudges from 2016 don’t help us today. A lot of people learned a lot of things from that election. Politicians included. The way the debt ceiling vote went forward is evidence of that. The performative no votes were done in a way that didn’t come close to blowing anything up. I am a lifelong Dem, and I don’t come at 2000 Nader voters or post-Bush converts (well, not that often, sometimes I feel the need to yank that chain). People who learned from 2016 and are onside now are needed. End of story as far as I am concerned.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Irish Alzheimer’s, you forgot everything but your grudges!
SFAW
@Tony Jay:
Excellent! One would almost think you grew up the the Colonies in the 1960s.
Matt McIrvin
@Roger Moore: I felt the same way with their “real unemployment”. Remember thinking at some point in the mid-2010s: you can’t tell me unemployment is worse now than it was at the pit of the post-2008 crash; at that point not only did I lose my job, just about everyone I knew lost their job! And that’s not true any more!
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Propaganda didn’t start with the Russians.
Geminid
@Omnes Omnibus: I think there has also been separation among the lefties. The more pragmatic ones have joined the current Democratic coalition. A smaller number of soreheads remain outside and mostly irrelevant.
Several factors contributed to this. I believe the Georgia Senate runoffs were a big one, because Senators Warnock and Ossoff made progress with a Democratic majority feasible. That dispelled a lot of pessimism, and now the Democratic Party is seen more as the place where the progressive action is.
SFAW
@Matt McIrvin:
Wasn’t there some semi-popular aphorism “A recession is when YOU lose your job; a depression is when I lose my job”?
Matt McIrvin
@Omnes Omnibus: I don’t really see the 2016 Berniebro anti-Hillary movement as relevant to our current political situation. Progressive leftists are unenthused with Biden and grumble about how they wish they had somebody else, but I think they’re onboard with voting primarily against the Republicans, because they are just so appalling. And the Greenwald types are just exposed as outright MAGA shills, obsessing about things like supporting Russia against Ukraine. They don’t have a lot of pull within the US left any more.
I think it will take time for this to become clear as the 2024 presidential race heats up, which it hasn’t yet.
topclimber
@Geminid: I didn’t know Manchin and Sinema were lefties.
Matt McIrvin
@SFAW: “Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” –Mel Brooks
…edit: it’s “when I cut my finger” I guess, though I’m sure this is going to turn out to be one of those fake quotations
Matt McIrvin
(now what could change all this is if Biden dies or is incapacitated, and the cross-party anti-Hillary-Clinton industry suddenly reemerges against Kamala Harris)
trollhattan
@topclimber:
Will wonders never cease?
Ukraine War has sorted folks even more than Trump did–the tankies have declared themselves and in some cases, taken the show on the road. In a storybook ending, Tara Reade and Edward Snowdon start dating Rod Dreher, separately or together. Is now borscht and vodka party!
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
People are either with me or they are against me.
Matt McIrvin
@Geminid: Yeah, the difference from the last time around is that there’s more actual government stimulus still in place from the post-COVID recovery, but on the other hand the Fed is squeezing harder to control inflation. But inflation is also decreasing.
The charts of a lot of the economic numbers look really weird now, like we’re still riding the downslope of badness from the Great Recession of 2008-09, except that there was this temporary massive interruption from COVID, but we basically recovered from that and got back to where we were.
Nora
@Kay: Re: Red WIne and Blue — wasn’t that the group that fought back when book banners struck in Kutztown, Pennsylvania? Will Bunch: The day the book banners lost in Pennsylvania’s culture wars | Op Eds | ArcaMax Publishing
Jackie
Something to watch for; Kevin’s next hurdle:
“The deal GOP senators securedto speed up votes on the debt-limit bill is going to be a tough pill to swallow for the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
A group of Republican hawks in the Senate won a commitment from leadership that the chamber would consider a supplemental spending bill for the Pentagon at some point this year. Having Congress enact a supplemental is pretty standard practice. But the goal of this effort is to get around what many senators see as a shortfall in defense spending that was capped at $886 billion in the bipartisan debt-limit bill.
Meaning the Senate is already looking for an out on the Fiscal Responsibility Act before the ink is even dry on the bill.
But the focus of this new funding — mainly Ukraine, but also Israel and China — is going to be difficult, if not impossible, for the House to pass under the current Republican majority.
“I’m going to leave it up to Kevin McCarthy to see if he wants to help defeat Putin,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told us. “I mean, he’s been pretty good… But is the Republican Party going to be the party that bails out [Russian President Vladimir] Putin? I hope not.”
The House GOP, as a whole, is much less supportive of U.S. aid for Ukraine than their Senate Republican counterparts. Some House GOP lawmakers have even called for cutting off Ukraine funding entirely. This puts enormous pressure on Kevin McCarthy, especially with the threat of being ousted from the speakership.
But Republican senators are adamant about this funding, especially with Ukraine’s highly anticipated counteroffensive set to begin soon. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) put a finer point on it:
“Based upon [the counteroffensive], that may very well garner people to say, ‘We’ve got this moving in the right direction, let’s make sure they’ve got all the resources necessary.’ And if that’s the case, then it may be completed more quickly than if we have to wait for a while and gather votes. But right now I think we’ve got good support, Republican and Democrat, to make sure that Ukraine has the resources necessary to continue to fight.”
The reality here is that Congress was probably always going to have to consider a supplemental Pentagon funding request at some point this year. GOP senators told us they believe the Biden administration was already planning to ask for more Ukraine funding anyway.
That means the debt-limit bill“won’t be the last opportunity” for Congress to address the defense topline, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said.”
https://punchbowl.news/archive/6223-punchbowl-news-am/
Captain C
@Baud:
And then sue the Supreme Court to abolish the debt limit!
(Side note, has anyone ever sued the SCOTUS and actually gotten it to trial, or settlement?)
smith
The Democratic Party needs a long-overdue come-to-Jesus moment about misogyny in its ranks. The abortion issue has presented us with an historic opportunity to pick up independent and non-MAGA women Republicans, but not as long as Dems and “progressives” join in the pile-on every time a woman threatens to become president.
Baud
@Captain C:
I think the Supreme Court was sued for a access to court sidewalks for protest purposes.
sab
@schrodingers_cat: You and I have disagreed a lot about EW over the years, but her vote did startle me this time.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: I’ve heard good things about that group but don’t have any direct experience with them.
Sister Golden Bear
We warned that this was going to happen. A trans public speaker was just banned from delivering a reading and speech on LGBTQ history at a public library in Montana, citing the drag ban. The “drag bans” are actually targeting trans people. They’re intentionally vague, making no distinction between performing drag and being trans.
Also, Twitter flagged an anti-trans film produced Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire as hate speech yesterday, and prevented it from showing up in the trends feed. Then of course Elon provided personal customer service support to the film’s star, Matt Walsh, not only removing both, but personally tweeting that every parent should watch it. Twitter’s head of trust and safety — betcha didn’t know they still had one — resigned over this.
(Just a reminder than Musk’s trans daughter disowned him, and his ex-wife is in a relationship with a trans woman, which I’m sure plays absolutely no role in his trans hatred.)
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I read Jennifer Berkshire (public school politics) and she has them in NH here.
The reproductive rights initiative in Ohio is funny because some of the women are not “political” on anything other than this issue. So we had one ask the group for a local gun safety course because she moved here from Maryland so I guess has to become a gun nut? They don’t trust her because she basically led with “I’m a gun owner!” I told her not to talk to them about guns :)
Matt McIrvin
@smith: The wing of the left whose strategy is to win back the working-class white male vote by shutting up about cultural issues and pushing economic socialism has gotten really quiet right now. The right has once again gone scary deranged about this stuff. It’s not a train you want to get on.
They think they’re going to win by repeating the Bush 2004 “values voter” play but by bashing the trans instead of the gays. But of course they’re bashing the gays too; they can’t help it. The book-banning kulturkampf is so extreme it’s getting normie parents upset. And Dobbs changes the whole abortion calculus too; now it’s pro-abortion-rights voters who feel oppressed and threatened.
Anyway
@Baud:
You’re either with me or with the terrorists…
sab
@Geminid: Cleveland just got money from last year’s bills that will enable them to finally build the cultural food center in Clark Fulton neighborhood. They have wanted to do this for many years but hadn’t been able to raise enough money. It’s in a food desert in the highest density hispanic neighborhood in Ohio. 20 vendor stalls, a commercial grade kitchen vendors can use, a hispanic grocery, and just generally a gathering place for the neighborhood.
Everyone is really excited about it, and it wouldn’t have happened without Biden’s bills.
LeBron James has funded a smaller similar idea in his old neighborhood in Akron, but not many cities have a LeBron
ETA Cleveland already has a 100 year old similar site ( West Side Market) but it doesn’t cater to hispanics at all.
Sean
@Burnspbesq: Well, there are 12 democratic votes in the senate, so we only need 8, out of 18 Republicans to join. That’s probably still tough, but some of these folks are highly motivated. I’ve lived in Texas all my life and I’m honestly not sure what will happen.
Geminid
@topclimber: They’re not. But I think you knew what I meant.
Rebel’s Dad
@Baud: In that case, be proactive and make it a $100 trillion coin!
@rikyrah: She probably does have a gay in her life, but they’re in the closet and resent her so they give her poor fashion advice.
“Yes Barbara, pink camo goes with EVERYTHING! Now don’t forget your Mossy Oak hat and duck boots for church, you’ll make all the other women talk”
Rebel’s Dad
@Betty: What in the Florida…?
Yes we gays are quite powerful, but I wasn’t aware we could control rivers now. Is that like the Jewish space laser?
Chief Oshkosh
@schrodingers_cat:
Which “her” do you mean? Warren, Cinema, or someone else?
lowtechcyclist
@schrodingers_cat:
Now I’ve got to clean off my monitor.
Rebel’s Dad
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Next they’ll say that the Yellow Brick Road was a subtle reference to water sports.
Rebel’s Dad
@geg6: I’m convinced the state Dem parties of both Texas and Florida are the same person.
Now that I think about it, maybe it’s Texas and Florida which are the same person. Or at least twins separated at birth.
Rebel’s Dad
@Nukular Biskits: 89 degrees with 31% humidity right now here in North Jersey…thanks, but I’ll pass.
Tomorrow it cools back down to the 60s and 70s for at least a week.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@sdhays:
To be fair, my cat could outsmart the Freedom Caucus.
Rebel’s Dad
@Josie: Shit just got real if those two are coming on board. I’ll need to buy some more soda to go with all the popcorn I’ve stocked up for this event.
Steeplejack
@Nukular Biskits:
I lived in Biloxi briefly and in Mobile for longer, so I know whereof you speak.
trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist: Totally checks out.
Frankensteinbeck
Wait, the budget deal passed the Senate? That fast?
Okay, NOW I can do this:
HA HA HA HA REPUBLICANS YOU FUCKING CHUMPS YOU TRIED TO HOLD THE DEBT CEILING HOSTAGE AND INSTEAD GAVE IT UP FOR NOTHING AND GOT A STATUS QUO BUDGET. Biden PLAYED you. He rolled your incompetent asses. You had all the chips, the game rigged in your favor, and you walked out broke like the fucking chumps you are.
@Sister Golden Bear:
I understand that regular people don’t know what the Hell Musk is talking about when he talks about bringing comedy back to Twitter. He specifically means trans hate ‘jokes’. The first account he unbanned was the Babylon Bee, banned for transphobia. The man is a virulent transphobe and making sure everyone was free to shovel hate at trans women was a major part of his buying the platform. No surprise that’s the category of hate speech he officially removed from the TOS’s forbidden list.
I am not going back to Twitter.
smith
@Rebel’s Dad: I think a danger the D parties in both FL and TX face is donor fatigue in the rest of the country. For years now, it has seemed that both states should be purpler than they are, and maybe just a little boost could help (things like DeSantis’ bare win in his previous election were encouraging).
Maybe it was just my own hope triumphing over experience, but I have in the past sent some of my precious political donation money that way. I must be a slow learner, but have finally concluded that sending money to either state has as much utility as sending it to MS or AL. This cycle it will be going north (WI, MI) and west (AZ), and to individual races that are promising, but not to FL or TX. Sorry, but you guys will have to fix it yourselves.
Steeplejack
Someone was asking yesterday about Hakeem Jeffries allegedly holding up a green card to signal the Democrats on voting. Here’s the story behind the story:
Jackie
Hmmm… Why isn’t this headline news?
“The number of migrants crossing the border has hit its lowest point since Biden took office. Here are four reasons there was no post Title 42 surge.
Experts predicted a huge influx of migrants when the Title 42 Covid ban ended in May. Instead, crossings have hit new lows for a number of reasons — some of them temporary.”
It’s a long read, but worth the click:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/four-reasons-there-was-no-post-title-42-migrant-border-surge-rcna87325
Geminid
I’m looking for a consumer report: does anyone have one of those compact “ChillWell” air conditioners, or know anyone who has one?
Rebel’s Dad
@Baud: The Once and Future Recession
Tbh, there will always be another recession coming because they’re cyclical. I guess that’s how economists ensure they will always have jobs, much like the healthcare industry never sees mass layoffs because people are always getting sick.
Jay C
@Tony Jay:
Official note of regret that Balloon Juice doesn’t have updings….
rikyrah
These “Where is Gen X ” videos 🤣
Ain’t nobody having cookouts for roommates 🤣
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRoHFnbP/
AWOL
@trollhattan: Rod likes pegging. Hungarian-style. Hot Hungarian-style pegging. Not sure if Tara or Edward are into that, even though Edward did defect from his stripper girlfriend.
Omnes Omnibus
@Matt McIrvin: The 2016 election was specifically mentioned by a commenter as a cause for her disdain for certain politicians. I didn’t pull it out of thin air. That being said, I agree, and it was sort of my whole fucking point, that the fault lines of 2016 are not germane to today’s politics.
Sister Golden Bear
@Frankensteinbeck:
I’m definitely cutting back my usage to only Trans Twitter. Much as I’m enjoying other platforms, the reality is that most of the critical news about anti-trans/LGBTQ+ efforts is being spread via Twitter because it’s got the biggest reach.
schrodingers_cat
From 538,
An updating tally of how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president.
Bernie Sanders
Kristen Sinema
Her votes align with the Biden position 100% of the time for BS that tally is 91%. Individual votes are listed as well.
rikyrah
DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) tweeted at 10:17 AM on Fri, Jun 02, 2023:
WATCH: President Biden’s strong, steady leadership delivered once again for the American people to avoid catastrophic default and protect our economic recovery. https://t.co/8FnykUMp0m
(https://twitter.com/DNCWarRoom/status/1664652515596550145?t=Sr1MJHUUAoqPFYLfvo5LaQ&s=03)
schrodingers_cat
@Sister Golden Bear: Yeah there is no other platform that replicates Twitter for me about news from India.
I also get to read viewpoints outside the bubble of liberal white privilege. From other minorities, especially black women, other immigrants and trans folks.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Neither are perfect allies. Also, which one’s public opposition to major administration legislative priorities got them watered down or delayed? What things didn’t happen due Sinema’s opposition. It’s not just voting records.
ETA: I also wouldn’t get too riled up over a 90% rate.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Another great jobs report.
I’m getting tired of so much winning.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I am no Sinema fan and would not be sad to see her go. Its the sheer hypocrisy that is galling, Magic Grandpa and his MA sidekick get a pass on their non-team player behavior while Sinema gets roasted (for valid reasons)
They don’t walk the walk, but most people are happy with their talk and their performance art. Their performance art is damaging and not without consequence. Our majority is precarious and own goals like BS 2016 run or the Defund the Police fallout is big price to pay for the said performance art.
trollhattan
@Steeplejack: Good inside-baseball stuff. Nice to see he’s got a dose of Nancy SMASH’s chops.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
👍
trollhattan
@AWOL: TBH the less I know about any of them, the better.
Oddly, know the most about Reade because she lived in the area and has a long trail of bad behaviors and fraud victims, who finally compared notes when she emerged to try and torpedo Biden’s campaign. That was a Russian op, most probably.
Wapiti
@schrodingers_cat: That website seems to use strange math. Sinema vote was in opposition to Biden 4 times (one of which, voting rights, seemed critical, but Manchin also voted against it?). Sanders vote was in opposition 6 times. Rounding errors, I guess.
dm
The Pod Bros mentioned that there’s a public-sector union mounting a law-suit challenging the constitutionality of the debt-limit on the grounds of the wording in the 14th Amendment. Their standing is, as Federal Employees, they won’t get paid were the debt-limit to go into effect.
It sounds a bit more concrete than the Mifepristone-standing non-sense, at least.
Roger Moore
@Matt McIrvin:
Exactly. It might be hard to tell the difference between unemployment in 2009 and 2010 just based on feeling, but not between 2009/10 and 2013/14. The longer they kept it up, the fewer people were going to buy it. The only people buying after a few people were ones who had a political motivation to believe the worst about Obama.
gwangung
@schrodingers_cat: Sorry, but that’s just BS as applied to Warren. No ifs, ands or buts.
lowtechcyclist
@schrodingers_cat:
A quick Google search will reveal the fawning coverage AOC and EW get on this blog
Can’t speak about AOC, but Liz Warren is a serious nuts-and-bolts legislator. She may be ‘performative’ for the two seconds it takes her to cast a vote you don’t like when her vote isn’t needed, but the rest of the time she’s anything but performative. She’s the sort of person who actually reads and understands complex legislation and documents like the Mueller report. We could use more ‘performing’ like that.
smith
@schrodingers_cat: It seems to me that it’s much more important to ask how damaging defections, or threatened defections, are to overall political goals than simply counting final votes. I believe Sinema’s and Manchin’s defections, or threatened defections (which have the same effect) have been much more damaging to Dem’s agenda than Sanders’ and Warren’s have.
Roger Moore
@Sister Golden Bear:
Not that it makes a big difference, but he and Grimes were never actually married. She was still his main significant other and the mother to two of his children, but she doesn’t seem like the marrying type.
Rebel’s Dad
@raven: Turns out Professor Farnsworth is Irish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkdNYYzbtVc
Roberto el oso
@prostratedragon: Forget it, Donnie, it’s Chinatown
Rebel’s Dad
@smith: No offense taken! After the HERO disaster in 2015 and then Beto’s loss in 2018, I got burned out on local and state politics myself.
There’s a cynical part of me that thinks TX Dem party leaders aren’t incompetent, they’re ensuring their own job security. Which one is easier: blegging for $$$ and wringing your hands, or actually having power and getting your hands dirty making policy and laws? They remind me of the car-chasing dog that finally caught one and now doesn’t know what to do with it.
Don’t get me started on how they just put everything on Beto’s shoulders for 4 years.
Sister Golden Bear
@Roger Moore: Thanks for the clarification. I hadn’t had my fourth cup of coffee when I wrote that and forget.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Again, the difference is where and when they voted against or opposed admin policy. Recognizing that is not hypocritical.
Rebel’s Dad
@AWOL: Is that pegging with paprika while moaning deep guttural sounds?
JML
@smith: the problem with Bernie is less with him and his actual votes than it is with his runaway supporters (a smaller but noisy and connected cadre), who he either can’t control or won’t as they consistently stick the knives in the backs of democrats. Warren & AOC push for things they want from the left, but both have been good about coming home when needed and not trying to fracture the party. Sinema’s actual voting record may not be that bad, but she’s repeatedly scotched legislation before it’s ever gotten to a vote and unquestionably pals around with and takes money from those unequivocally opposed to the Democratic agenda, caucus, and president.
RaflW
@Geminid: I’m planning to buy one — saw a huge pallet of them at the big box store the other day — for use in CO. My caveat (untested, but extrapolated from real world experience with a whole-house evaporative chiller in N.M.) is that it needs to be used in a location with quite low humidity.
So, if you’re in a Rocky mountain or desert state (or the plains, sometimes), it’ll probably do great. If you have good whole-house a/c that controls humidity well and you just want extra cooling in one room, it might work OK.
But it might make things too damp, esp if one is in a high humidity climate.
RaflW
@AWOL: I think Rod’s wife divorced him because she figured out he wants the real deal, not pegging. I have no proof for that suspicion, but so much of his angst reads to me like a battle with ‘inner demons’ (known to normal not Christofascists as plain ol’ coming out).
Geminid
@RaflW: The manufacturers say the units dehumidify also. If the unit functions at the level of the advertising copywriters, it will really be something!
I’ll just use one for evening cooling, during hot spells. I live in a small, well insulated cottage with tree shade, so I don’t need much.
But let please let us know how the Chill Well unit works. People are already complaining about the heat in their houses.
Ken
In an 8-1 ruling, the Court said “nyah nyah, you can’t make us.”
The dissent by Justice Alito argued that protestors should be summarily executed.
(Do I need a sarcasm tag? Maybe for the part about Alito.)
smith
@RaflW: The “tell” with guys like Rod has always been when they rant about children being seduced by the “homosexual lifestyle” (whatever that is). I don’t think most heterosexual people find that lifestyle particularly alluring, but Rod and his cohorts sure do. They can’t stop thinking about it.
TriassicSands
Communist rainbows?
And, in the Who’s the Dumbest Person on Earth contest, we have a winner. (Actually, it’s a tie.)
TriassicSands
I guess you are unfamiliar with Warren’s voting record.
Steeplejack
@BC in Illinois:
😹
Steeplejack
@raven:
Plus they’re so light and easy to carry!
RaflW
@Geminid: ChillWell seems to acknowledge in one of the little scrolling boxes on the home page, it adds humidity:
“3 For 1
Works as a humidifier and cooling cartridge can help trap all these particles before they get blown on you.”
Old School
@Wapiti:
The 100% calculation is tracking the 188th Congress (i.e. Since January 2023).
Roberto el oso
@smith: I believe Dreher devoted a column (or maybe it was just a sequence of Tweet-spurts) to how heavenly it was to be in the company of brawny Hungarian fellows drinking beer and eating meat. Given that his actual command of Hungarian seems to consist of phrases one can use to order about wait-staff, it sounded like he wasn’t actually seated with the Magyar he-men who so fascinated him, but rather, observing them from a distance … all in all, the whole thing exuded a distinctly clammy sort of sorrow … ‘Death in Venice’ transposed to Budapest.
Frankensteinbeck
@schrodingers_cat:
Because Sinema’s votes against Biden don’t actually happen. They sink legislation before it gets to a vote. Very, very, very important legislation, stuff we need to overcome the filibuster for. I strongly dislike Sanders, but the more important something is, the more likely he is to play ball.
Old School
@Old School: Whoops. Disregard. I misread the part about the 118th Congress.
It’s screwy math.
Rugosa
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
After 50 years in Boston, I still plant my tomatoes on Memorial Day, because that’s when you plant them in Buffalo. I can’t bring myself to trust that there won’t be a frost in mid-May.
VFX Lurker
In 1971, the Comics Code Authority rejected Amazing Spider-Man #96-98 for a drug abuse plot element. The CCA guidelines got rewritten later that year.
evodevo
@Ohio Mom:
Yeah…did that to me on Stonekettle when I tried to log on half an hour ago…then it came back on normally when I rebooted…weird…
StringOnAStick
@skerry: I agree that we shouldn’t be expanding pipelines, though my understanding is the idea is it is sending natural gas that will be turned into LNG and (most likely) sent to Europe. It’s an anti-Putin, help Europe and Ukraine ploy. The sooner we can remove Putin’s energy leverage, the sooner Ukraine can win and the sooner we can push even harder in renewables. Putin and his buddies are standing in the way of sane energy policy, as are the R’s.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@lowtechcyclist: I wonder what kind of bolts she uses SAE or metric?
Geminid
@RaflW: Ah, now I see I was confusing “humidifier” with “dehumidifier.”
Geminid
@StringOnAStick: The Mountain Valley Pipeline was initiated several years before this war. The need for shipments of natural gas to Europe became a factor only recently.
When the companies behind this pipeline and the similar Atlantic Coast pipeline floated the projects in the middle of the last decade, they were very coy about the possibility of exporting the gas. But unless someone intends to build scores of brick factories on the North Carolina coastal plain, export is the only plausible goal.
There still needs to be a processing plant and shipping terminal. The Moehead City area is a likely location.