Digby wrote:Why did the artist put so much more effort into the face of Biden than the generic brown faces to still have that not especially look like Biden?
It's Jimmy Carter isn't it?
Interesting how bombing the Middle East is now a bad thing compared to Trump sending missiles in.
Puja
Interesting you’d assume it comes from a Trump apologist at all, really.
I mean, originally I just thought it was meant to symbolise Biden turning innocent children into the trans and the gays (and was kinda confused that the innocent children were all brown because most of the really out there bigots have a finger in every bigotry pie), but then I read the news.
Interesting how bombing the Middle East is now a bad thing compared to Trump sending missiles in.
Puja
Interesting you’d assume it comes from a Trump apologist at all, really.
I mean, originally I just thought it was meant to symbolise Biden turning innocent children into the trans and the gays (and was kinda confused that the innocent children were all brown because most of the really out there bigots have a finger in every bigotry pie), but then I read the news.
Puja
Nah, it's a rehash of the Obama one from the build up to the 2016 elections.
The thing is, it couldn't possibly bother me because I don't think, and never thought, Biden would be a particularly good president. But he's not an insane oaf, so he's got that going.
Best case scenario, he hands over the reigns smoothly in 4 years time.
Worst case, he makes a hash of the middle east and gives people a chance to elect a Trump next time round...
The $15 min. wage was allowed to die this time around 'cause Bernie and Joe couldn't get the votes. Which in turn allows a number of people to act as has happened here. But it's not the end of the process, at a federal or state level
It would be outstanding if they had eschewed women from the list, if for about 70% of the work for around 3% of the profits and they still can't catch a break that's comedy
Digby wrote:The $15 min. wage was allowed to die this time around 'cause Bernie and Joe couldn't get the votes. Which in turn allows a number of people to act as has happened here. But it's not the end of the process, at a federal or state level
Quite. There's a bizarre tendency to clutch at defeats and ignore significant victories. Also to think that everything could get done in the first 50 days of the administration. Never mind the fact that there was no transition to speak of and there's a razor thin majority in the Senate. The achievement of getting Manchin to sign up to $1.9 trillion of support is considerable.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Especially when looking at how much GOP support there's been for Biden's initial recovery/support proposals. Which as so often these days is just weird from the GOP when they're running so strongly against public opinion, they're ignoring the public, they're ignoring the Democratic votes for Trump's CARES Act, and they're really only speaking to a small group (maybe even just a group of 1) of nutcases, and they're peddling a very weird victim mentality which clashes more than a little with the idea of just pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Digby wrote:Especially when looking at how much GOP support there's been for Biden's initial recovery/support proposals. Which as so often these days is just weird from the GOP when they're running so strongly against public opinion, they're ignoring the public, they're ignoring the Democratic votes for Trump's CARES Act, and they're really only speaking to a small group (maybe even just a group of 1) of nutcases, and they're peddling a very weird victim mentality which clashes more than a little with the idea of just pull yourself up by your bootstraps
The GOP has a real split personality at the moment. I suspect that many of the old establishment are bitterly regretting having anything to do with the Tea Party and other right wing nutters who have now got a very strong presence in the party and who it will take years of pain to get rid of. On the other hand, the votes that come with the right wing nutters are too useful to ignore.
I read the other day that Trump is pushing his supporters to send their donations to his donation fund rather than the GOP official one. McConnell must be cursing himself for not voting to impeach Trump and at least removing that clown from the next presidential candidate race.
Digby wrote:Especially when looking at how much GOP support there's been for Biden's initial recovery/support proposals. Which as so often these days is just weird from the GOP when they're running so strongly against public opinion, they're ignoring the public, they're ignoring the Democratic votes for Trump's CARES Act, and they're really only speaking to a small group (maybe even just a group of 1) of nutcases, and they're peddling a very weird victim mentality which clashes more than a little with the idea of just pull yourself up by your bootstraps
The GOP has a real split personality at the moment. I suspect that many of the old establishment are bitterly regretting having anything to do with the Tea Party and other right wing nutters who have now got a very strong presence in the party and who it will take years of pain to get rid of. On the other hand, the votes that come with the right wing nutters are too useful to ignore.
I read the other day that Trump is pushing his supporters to send their donations to his donation fund rather than the GOP official one. McConnell must be cursing himself for not voting to impeach Trump and at least removing that clown from the next presidential candidate race.
We're waiting to see if the GOP will grow a spine now Trump is going after what they'll see as their money. Which is a nonsense, it's the money of those donating it, but the GOP doesn't look a group that doesn't suffer from entitlement issues
We shall wait to see now if Biden's mass funding proves useful. I suspect we'll see the norm, which is that money floods upwards and you'll only get a benefit if rich people have to pay sensible taxes that sees a more equitable distribution of wealth. Still, much can be learned from this which will inform debates such as UBI. And in the case that the money floods up still in the here and now some people will be able to eat, get medical care and other such frivolous things
Digby wrote:Especially when looking at how much GOP support there's been for Biden's initial recovery/support proposals. Which as so often these days is just weird from the GOP when they're running so strongly against public opinion, they're ignoring the public, they're ignoring the Democratic votes for Trump's CARES Act, and they're really only speaking to a small group (maybe even just a group of 1) of nutcases, and they're peddling a very weird victim mentality which clashes more than a little with the idea of just pull yourself up by your bootstraps
The GOP has a real split personality at the moment. I suspect that many of the old establishment are bitterly regretting having anything to do with the Tea Party and other right wing nutters who have now got a very strong presence in the party and who it will take years of pain to get rid of. On the other hand, the votes that come with the right wing nutters are too useful to ignore.
I read the other day that Trump is pushing his supporters to send their donations to his donation fund rather than the GOP official one. McConnell must be cursing himself for not voting to impeach Trump and at least removing that clown from the next presidential candidate race.
Does it fuck. Its the same Southern Strategy that they kick started in 1968. Have a look at how many civil rights bills they have blocked over the last 40 years, including the last 4. Look also at the hundreds of voter suppression bills they have submitted in the past few months.
The voting suppression bills since Trump lost the election are astonishing. I thought the Dems might struggle to keep momentum going and then the GOP came in and allowed the moral indignation to ramp up again with their insanity in trying to block voters from voting
Digby wrote:The voting suppression bills since Trump lost the election are astonishing. I thought the Dems might struggle to keep momentum going and then the GOP came in and allowed the moral indignation to ramp up again with their insanity in trying to block voters from voting
Not just that but to say openly in the Supreme Court argument that they are screwed if people are allowed to vote.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Digby wrote:The voting suppression bills since Trump lost the election are astonishing. I thought the Dems might struggle to keep momentum going and then the GOP came in and allowed the moral indignation to ramp up again with their insanity in trying to block voters from voting
Not just that but to say openly in the Supreme Court argument that they are screwed if people are allowed to vote.
That in fairness was comedy gold. Maybe they really think they are speaking to their own given the judges and they see nothing wrong with it, and they'd almost have to be like that to he acting like this in the first place.
Mikey Brown wrote:Not even sure which violent incident I'm referring to here, just another broad "FFS" at America in general I guess.
The one where a cop shot a black guy; or the one where the black guy got shot by a cop - or possibly the extrajudicial execution by a cop... of a black guy.
Or have I missed another school shooting?
Or the pre-emptive super-soldier counter-riots. Don't forget that.
No more school shootings I don't think but can't keep track. There does seem to be an incident where a student shot at police (???) and then was killed in return. Not sure what you call that exactly.
There was that one with an ex-NFL player the other day killing 5 people. It's hard not to wonder what condition his brain was in after a football career, but he was black so maybe that's all it was.
Mikey Brown wrote:Or the pre-emptive super-soldier counter-riots. Don't forget that.
No more school shootings I don't think but can't keep track. There does seem to be an incident where a student shot at police (???) and then was killed in return. Not sure what you call that exactly.
There was that one with an ex-NFL player the other day killing 5 people. It's hard not to wonder what condition his brain was in after a football career, but he was black so maybe that's all it was.
A] ??? I presume I'm missing a cultural reference here - Marvel?
B] "Suicide by cop"
C] Hadn't seen that one; I'd assumed the actual comment was in relation to this one where the black guy was killed by the cop "by mistake" because she couldn't tell the difference between her tazer and her gun.
Yeah, I realise I wasn't very clear there. Part A is the response to Daunte Wright's murder. People in Minneapolis aren't too happy about it for some reason, but now the city are facing the prospect of looting it's time to get out there in the riot gear and bash some skulls in order to maintain the peace.
