Vaccines, Infrastructure, and Kids In Cages: US Politics April 2021

You shd tell ur student that unpaid internships are for suckers and she shd just go wait tables instead. Win win.

xpost - iirc he already made some noises about how the vaccines were created on his watch and wouldn't have been possible to have been developed under Biden, or some such similar nonsense.

Without me you’d never have your big beautiful antibodies.

Alfred, force your student to watch Gutfeld! and problem solved

#Google

kinda astounded to see Trump giving vaccines full endorsement. Because he wants to take credit I guess?

worth mentioning that Trumpism is not just following everything Trump says (which is impossible given how often he contradicts himself) but rather just being a contrarian asshole on every single topic

https://i.imgur.com/4bBWzBw.jpeg

just being a contrarian asshole on every single topic

this is a good point, but I have to imagine at least some Trump supporters prefer to be relieved of the burden of forming opinions.

the problem with Trump saying he wants his supporters to take the vaccine is that Sleepy Joe and Crooked Hillary and Crazy Bernie and AOC plus 3 ALSO want them to take it and they cannot possibly imagine a world where their political opposites actually have their best interests in mind

I'd argue that the bigger problem is that anyone is still listening to and reporting on anything he says instead of telling him to shut his goddamn foodhole.

that's not where he eats

I'd argue that the bigger problem is that anyone is still listening to and reporting on anything he says instead of telling him to shut his goddamn foodhole.

I was watching a clip from Seth Meyers' show earlier today and he mentioned that the former president gave an interview to Sean Hannity this week, and until he brought it up I had no idea. Nobody else talked about it at all that I saw.

But I bet the people that saw it, that's all they talked about. After they formed bands.

its surreal seeing the various interviews and press releases he's done lately, my first instinct is always "this parody is way too over the top to be believable"

The writers got lazy in the last season

Finally:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/24/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-armenian-remembrance-day/

Proof that Erdogan has finally estranged Turkey from the USA sufficiently far that nobody cares anymore about their hurt feelings when we call their genocide a genocide.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/25/democrat-manchin-praises-gop-infrastructure-proposal.html

President Manchin really enjoying himself these days.

this is a bit niche for Is the West Experiencing a Left-Wing Drift? (the international left politics activism, news, and strategy thread), and it's an editorial, not policy, but still!

The New York Times editorial board has reconsidered its position on the state and local tax deduction, and it now supports eliminating the deduction entirely (!) pic.twitter.com/5t53pLhpC8

— Scott Greenberg (@ScottElliotG) April 25, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzXC5OCVUAUM7Kg?format=png&name=900x900

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzXC5OCVUAUM7Kg?format=png&name=900x900

the horizontal spacing is uneven on that graph, especially the last column

right. it's insane how few people benefit from the SALT deduction, and yet https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/salt-cap-revolt-led-by-n-y-democrats-snarls-biden-spending-plan/ar-BB1fQ957

it's the cause that won't die for the worst House Democrats
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/business/economy/coronavirus-economic-stimulus-taxes.html

can't make this shit up

Cyber Ninjas, hired by Arizona Senate to recount Maricopa County's ballots, asks court to keep its procedures secret https://t.co/PItCscndCT

— Sam Levine (@srl) April 26, 2021

Yeah
This has good text, if you don't want to stream, as I didn't (would rather read news):
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-arizona-s-election-audit-matters-even-outside-arizona-n1265343

That's kind of how I've felt about this, my instinct is to roll my eyes and ignore this obvious stunt, BUT... I fear for what comes next if they do walk out and insist that Trump won. Not that I fear the election being undone or anything but, as the articles says, it being used as a springboard to even more voter suppression.

Who audits the auditors, etc.

For sure if they get anything they can crow about — even if it's mostly BS — there will be pressure for the other swing-state GOP legislatures to do the same. But most legislatures will be out of session by next month, so they'd probably have to call special sessions just to do it. Which, of course, they would do.

The apportionment numbers, based on the 2020 census, continue a decades-long shift of political power from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt. But California, the nation’s largest state, also saw its population growth slow enough that it lost a House seat for the first time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/26/census-house-apportionment-for-next-decade-484653
This might incl. *some* blueing effect, as them interstate immigrants bring their politics/cultural druthers with 'em.

(As has happened in Greater Atlanta for inst.)

Good commentary, from Teen Vogue no less--- some of the gist:
We are attempting to speak about concepts that require nuance on platforms and through mediums that strip them of nuance. From Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate Are Not Transactional Concepts
.By Samuel Getachew
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-lives-matter-stop-asian-hate-justice?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=spotlight-nl&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=thematic_spotlight_042621_2&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9cb902ddf9c72dc17acfd&cndid=27752069&hasha=3cc471d3ca9c2d34cafeeaf6c50cc9ea&hashb=fc10948a7c9ba521f074ea14828a38540b8d690f&hashc=970f9bb2306cb113cb73fc8b6356ff90c42825af7eda2f3e0478293269e368a2&esrc=replenish20200403&sourcecode=thematic_spotlight&utm_term=Thematic_Spotlight

Via the Conde Nast Spotlight enewsletter, linking articles from CN publications.

Teen Vogue has been Teen Woke since at least late '16.

Mis-scanned that as Teen Wolf.

seems generally well meaning but ted lieu is the biggest dork my god

Next year I’m going to fly to Florida on Delta Airlines and give Dasani water to voters in line while wearing Nike sneakers and a Major League Baseball hat. Want to join me? https://t.co/0enPEXbetN

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 26, 2021

Hah, primo example of what Teen Voguer's talkin about.

Well with some comedy added anyhow (unintentional comedy, the best kind)

A tweet too on the nose for the Idiocracy reboot.

Ted lieu is extremely dim and if it’s it not a Republican then I hope he’s the one who loses his seat in CA redistricting.

I Won't Take The Vaccine Because It Makes Liberals Mad

Iwill never allow myself to be injected with Big Pharma’s mass-produced mystery juice, in part because it was rushed out of the lab and into the manufacturing line like a replacement for a Honda Civic’s recalled airbags.

It just wouldn’t be prudent.

As a healthy 29-year-old, my likelihood of dying from the virus is practically nil, so why risk the blood clots? And before anyone accuses me of trying to murder granny, shouldn’t she be immune to the virus if she gets the vaccine? Whether that’s actually true seems to be the topic of some debate. We’ll have to follow The Science™, then parse through its legitimacy relative to its political value for Democrats (that’s a new step in the scientific method) before we can know for sure.

If it turns out that the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection, then there’s no point in getting it in the first place, and I suppose we’ll have to sew our masks to our faces for the rest of our natural lives.

But in truth, I’m not really avoiding the vaccine due to potential medical complications, or because of the speed with which it was produced.

...

My primary reason for refusing the vaccine is much simpler: I dislike the people who want me to take it, and it makes them mad when they hear about my refusal. That, in turn, makes me happy.

Biden should start up an anti-Russian roulette campaign.

I won't post what Tucker Carlson said last night. He's clearly testing FOX's patience for his inevitable political run.

yea he's very rapidly devolving into Alex Jones

Sounds like the sort of thing my friend with a small child in Vancouver, BC, whom I've referenced on one of the Covid threads, has been posting about. There is distinct collision between leftist "wellness" and right-wing conspiracy that will never cease to amaze me in its blatant stupidity.

Staving off imminent mortality is for liberal snowflakes afaict

That url sounds like the Hulk-level discourse maga trolls would use to describe themselves - “Am greatness!”

https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days

Thoughts from a droopy old ballsack

his big idea is to constantly bring up dennis hastert

That’s why I’m doing this interview. Lots of smart people are going to read it, and hopefully they can figure out that which I can’t.