Can We Try De-Exhuming McCarthy, US Politics July 2021

Sicker Moms

Khanna is getting tired of the admin’s bullshit on Yemen.

Meeting with Salman w/out demanding end of blockade is not treating the Saudis as “pariahs” as Biden pledged. Yemen disaster continues. Lenderking is failing. Admin must change course fast or Congress will act. ⁦@BernieSanders⁩ ⁦@jaketapper⁩ https://t.co/QfrNo6FRoE

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) July 14, 2021

mostly good news about what's making the cut on the reconciliation bill

From the Terminal: SANDERS CONFIRMS PRO ACT INCLUDED IN SENATE BUDGET AGREEMENT

— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) July 14, 2021

*MANCHIN SAYS SUPPORTS IMMIGRATION REFORM IN THE BUDGET DEAL

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) July 14, 2021

unclear if medicare age eligibility age is going down. that would be a big deal electorally (people like getting healthcare).

manchin grumbling about climate stuff but unclear where that goes.

no one appears to be concerned by the price tag.

did you guys watch the nytimes documentary on jan 6? really well done.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/state-departments-federal-au-pair-oversight-plan-draws-critics?context=search&index=0

The Biden administration plans to advance its predecessor’s proposal to keep state and local worker protections from applying to foreign au pairs, angering labor advocates who doubt the Department of State—as overseer of the visa program—has the means to shield the young and mostly female workforce from abuse.

“There is a huge problem with the federal State Department’s inability to actually administer and provide oversight of this program,” said Rocio Avila, senior employment law counsel and state policy director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

The live-in childcare workers are recruited through sponsor companies and can stay in the U.S. with a J-1 exchange visitor visa. Families pay an agency fee, and those they employ can work a maximum of 45 hours per week and get paid weekly at a rate of $4.35 per hour, as the cost of au pair room and board is deducted from their federal minimum wage. They’re tied to their host families and sponsoring companies. Many have reportedly faced threats of deportation, as well as financial, physical, and sexual abuse.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men for conspiring to attack the Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., with authorities saying the men also tried to coordinate with an extremist militia group.

Ian Benjamin Rogers, 45, and Jarrod Copeland, 37, “began planning to attack targets they associated with Democrats after the 2020 presidential election and sought support from an anti-government militia group,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a release Friday.

Copeland is a former member of the military who was discharged in lieu of court martial. He then joined the “Three Percenters,” an anti-government extremist group...

The ex-military thing is what kinda freaks me out. Seems like they're harboring a bunch of kooks, not just in the U.S. but in Europe (Germany) as well.

hell yeah let’s go

SCOOP: The Biden admin. has weakened proposed health & safety rules for public housing.

HUD no longer plans to require fire extinguishers, circuit breakers to prevent electrocution, & other key safety features — contrary to codes adopted in many states.https://t.co/k2tiioP9A4

— Suzy Khimm (@SuzyKhimm) July 14, 2021

jfc

A fine use of horseshoe theory

Pushed him so far left that he popped out on the right side I see

— a tiny manatee (@ateenymanatee) July 16, 2021

crypto + drugs is the mystery zone where the horseshoe connects

The Biden admin stressed the new inspection standards haven't been finalized—HUD is still accepting public feedback on them: https://t.co/qZHFhaAodA
HUD has already promised to make one change—to prohibit fire doors from being propped open—in response to one of my questions.

— Suzy Khimm (@SuzyKhimm) July 14, 2021

they're just making this shit up as they go along I guess

can't they finalize the one that says you have to have circuit breakers and a fire extinguisher? seems uncontroversial. unless you are a section 8 landlord, of course.

Landlords, property managers, and other industry players lobbied against some of the safety standards that HUD initially proposed, arguing they would be too expensive to implement.

They warned strict requirements could drive away Section 8 landlords & reduce the housing supply.

— Suzy Khimm (@SuzyKhimm) July 14, 2021

Literal Grenfell

If we insist that public housing not be constantly on fire, there may not be enough constantly-blazing public housing for people to die in. And then where would we be.

It's still a public comment period, make your feelings known! (see follow up tweet from the reporter that got way less engagement).

why are you assuming i don't already have the relevant hud.gov page open

make sure you impress upon them that you and all your friends are in fact powerful landlords

from a good thread about the au pair legal human trafficking thing

That's exactly what one congressional staffer who wants to reform the program told me pic.twitter.com/ZGVfYrel2j

— Zack Kopplin (@ZackKopplin) July 16, 2021

Like why did they even bother replacing Ben Carson if this is the result. 'Ben Carson' is the situational low bar that anyone can and everyone should clear.

It should not be necessary to tell a Democratic administration that killing poor people so landlords can be richer is a bad thing.

fair

Reporter: "What's your message to platforms like Facebook?"

President Biden: "They're killing people." pic.twitter.com/jrAvQpG7i0

— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2021

why are you assuming i don't already have the relevant hud.gov page open

Facebook is killing people? Damn, hardcore. ILXor just gave me a mild rash that one time

xp lol i didn't think you were, i was also joking (i did have the tab open but still did not make a public comment bc i have the attention span of a flea)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-drop-tax-enforcement-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-portman-2021-07-18/

Infrastructure week!

This painting, “The Spirit of 2024,” is a contemporary interpretation of the classic painting, “The Spirit of 1776.” I’m honored and amused to be featured in it. The artist is Jon McNaughton and you can find his work at https://t.co/VMvjHKZqXh pic.twitter.com/hTiUAlaCmx

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 18, 2021

looooooooool

Man, at least the old school fascists occasionally had good artistic taste

I mean, every time I read one of D'Souza's tweets I assume he's suffered a head injury, so...

McNaughton is such a piece of work

Those wacky right wing twitter feeds are some PK Dick 'Ubik' funhouse inversions of reality.

Merrick Garland really paying off dividends

https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/07/doj-will-not-prosecute-trump-officials-after-ig-referred-findings-false-testimony-census/183843/

Gotta focus all the energy on NBA Youngboy.

good stuff

I mean, I’m just glad I didn’t spend the last 4-5 years fuming and pinning my hopes on some sort of repercussions for all the crimes! Oh wait, I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjmjqlOPd6A

i miss old school political scandals
he couldn't remember a phrase!! haha!!! what an idiot

meanwhile trump was like "i like white christians, ok. i like when people are white and christian, ok? that's what you like too, right? we like white christians right? you like them when they're straight, especially! my record on that is a little more situational. but if you hate gay people i won't stand against you! we hate anybody that's not like us. covfefe."

headline the next day: COVFEFE?!!?!

lol otm

The Biden administration is poised to send thousands of people who were released during Covid back to prison.https://t.co/rcYmXJtSvV

— Maya Schenwar (@MayaSchenwar) July 20, 2021

so uh that Wilbur Ross story yesterday?

This story has been corrected to reflect that the decision not to prosecute Ross was made by the Department of Justice during the Trump administration, not the Biden administration.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-census-2020-dfececa4bb96d752594c9d38770752cc

that's a big fucking mistake

national journalism has been a giant fucking turd for a while now

Holy shit yeah, that's terrible.

correction: in fact, a dog bit a man

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/three-tropes-white-victimhood/619463/

In the conservative world, the idea that white people in the United States are under siege has become doctrine. In recent weeks, three prominent figures have each offered their own versions of this tenet.

In June, Brian Kilmeade, one of the hosts of Fox & Friends, claimed that activists were “trying to take down white culture.”

Also in June, Tucker Carlson, speaking on his nightly show with an anti-white mania graphic in the background, implied that racial strife was imminent and asked: “How do we save this country before we become Rwanda?”

The same month, Pat Robertson, a former Republican presidential candidate and the host of the Christian Broadcasting Network’s flagship show, The 700 Club, said that militants are telling “people of color … to rise up and overtake their oppressors.” He worried that, “having gotten the whip handle—if I can use the term,” people of color were now in a position “to instruct their white neighbors how to behave.” Robertson warned that if this trend continues, “America is over. It is just that simple.”

Kilmeade, Carlson, and Robertson all blamed critical race theory, a school of legal thought developed in the 1980s that has become the latest fixation of the conservative outrage machine. But the panic they expressed has a much longer history, with roots going back to white-supremacist rhetoric from before the Civil War—and particularly apparent during the attack on Reconstruction, America’s experiment in interracial democracy that lasted from 1865 until 1877.

Indeed, each of the three pundits expressed a key strand of the rhetoric of racial reaction that was pervasive among critics of Reconstruction: Carlson deployed inversion, by which white people declare reverse racism or anti-whiteness to be the crucial problem of prejudice and white people to be uniquely oppressed as a result of excessive power granted to Black Americans; Robertson deployed projection, in which white people assert that they will be treated the way they treated Black people during the Jim Crow era; and Kilmeade deployed victimization, as when a white southerner in 1875 described his region as “stripped of her honors, her glory, her pride … trampled into dust” by recently enacted laws.

and then the end

...One of the most telling moments of Donald Trump’s presidency, and our present political moment, came last December, after he was voted out of office but before the insurrection he fomented. “We’re all victims,” he told a crowd in Georgia. “Everybody here. All these thousands of people here tonight. They’re all victims. Every one of you.” Like the opponents of Reconstruction, Trump milked feelings of humiliation to authorize a politics of what President Johnson called “restoration”—the Reconstruction-era version of “Make America great again.”

The opponents of Reconstruction succeeded in their campaign against racial equality, setting the country on a path to great division and intolerable oppression. Those who traffic in these tropes continue to threaten to defer the promise of justice and democracy—yet again.

If they tried something new, they wouldn't be conservatives.

Again, nothing new, but it's just so deeply pathetic that the Bootstrap Nation actively thinks of themselves as victims.

It's not like this animus was never always there under a veil of yellow cake uranium, compassionate conservationism for that city on the hill. Veil it in the flag or the cross and it works like a charm on the rubes.

“having gotten the whip handle—if I can use the term” -- way to invoke the horror of slavery while you're trying to diminish the historic impact of it, Pat. You deserve so much worse than whipping.

he deserves one of the smallest, least shiny mansions in heaven

it should have a constantly leaking roof, even though it never rains in heaven