like that "but that is not the white house's position" is a very "oh well, thems the breaks, what're you gonna do" vibe. that is not going to fire people up! and for people concerned about gaza, "rent caps" and "SCOTUS reform" delivered by someone who's sucked shit on this front is not good cover.
me: i'm too fully pickled in politics. in world dreariness. whaddya got
brain: rob lowe's character in Wayne's World was the original 'white boy SHOCKS restaurant by ordering in perfect chinese'
me: mmm.
alos notable: that only got passed in the first place too by tying it into tax cuts and a buncha Rah Rah America Needs To Fight The Terrorists bullshit
after enough time of "give republicans whatever they want and hope they be nice to me" - this strategy extended to bill clinton too! operation gatekeeper! three strikes! destroying welfare as we know it! - the anger shifts from the GOP to the democrats who keep doing This Fucking Shit
this is the funniest part imo. genuinely better than obama on labor, but foreign policy is where your head goes bc biden was a chair on the senate committee for years and his idea for iraq was carving it up into three ethno-religious partitions
see: the clinton camp constantly harrumphing about But Her Emails, when 8 years earlier the media being total dogshit who'll snap up anything that looks juicy enough sure seemed like a good avenue for shit like this to start circulating around
remembering seeing that 'florida dems dance after anti-trans laws pass' and the 'misinformation DEBUNKED' response was 'this is not true; the florida legislature regularly has school spirit week-esque theme days, this behavior is completely normal and they've been doing it the whole time'
you're a real grody creep pretending to be around just for reasonable discussion and talking about how to get to peace. a flat out genocide denialist who leaps for any reason to avoid dealing with israel's responsibilities and the crimes it has and continues to commit.
not just "biden gave up on it with a shrug and has put zero pressure on senators in his own state to get in line with it", but pre 10/7, part of the biden campaign's message was "we're overdue for a minimum wage increase". most people didn't see it - cuz it was abandoned *very* quickly.
not scotus related but this is in my head all the time for durbin and senior dems in general. people talk about how the left should present itself to get politicians to listen to them, but the senior dems even blow off *ed fucking markey* who has been in politics *longer than nancy pelosi*
of living dems in seniority positions, clyburn remains my go-to example. no interest in what comes after him, building some kind of legacy or longterm effort - not even for greedy reasons. all that matters to him is himself in the here and now. www.propublica.org/article/how-...
truly not great that the former house dem whip has pretty much the exact same behavior and perspective as the current senate dem whip. a position of great power, but totally uninterested in using it, because that's work. they just want to hold in place forever.
i had a realization earlier today that all the people who go "but i NEED webtoons" because of them being obsessed with the (faked, juiced) viewership numbers and the 'prestige' associated with it are just a newer generation of artists who were too late to know about Top 100 Webcomics
the funniest thing about chait's problem with the trump case is if you go back to his earliest writing on it back in 2023 you can see he has a very odd specific hyperfocus on "it's not ILLEGAL to pay off a woman you're having an affair with, normally" nymag.com/intelligence...
the gag in back to the future is a funny little bit but you really need to dig down to the nitty gritty core for a whole damn movie of "yes, we really fucking made *this* guy in charge of everything"
guy who will crush the left but is willing to play hardball with the GOP and force mcconnell to have to actually stress and spend political capital: well, sucks, but i get it
everybody after that guy dies: hey man why the fuck do you even want this job
kinda think 'like 300k democrats voting for the literal republican' is more of an issue than 'whatever coalition of voters nader got in florida' but that's just me www.salon.com/2000/11/28/h...
"if clinton wins in 2016, trump obviously wouldn't get to seat those judges!" sure, absolutely. "and clinton would get to seat-" hahaha hold on dial those expectations back many, many notches my friend
you are not going to convince me that hillary had some secret sauce that would've made her able to get done with minorities in *both* parts of congress what obama was unable/unwilling to do with at least a senate majority, especially when even everyone's favorite 'moderate' was doing this shit
