Lady G Shook the Covid Tree - August 2021 US Politics Thread

Did Space Force celebrate their space victory with a round of space shakes, I wonder

No, they went to the Space Bar.

Space Food Sticks and Tang, iirc.

Cool to see the 1/3rd Trump appointed Supreme Court force Biden to resurrectTrump era racist immigration policies. Seems good.

what if they won the space award and they just didn't have any room for it because they used up all their space

Let's start a nuclear war
Start a nuclear war
At the space bar, space bar, space bar

last year's winner was the guy who normalized a single space instead of two spaces between paragraphs. lifetime achievement award. I was robbed.

ALERT: US House Select Jan 6 Committee sends sweeping requests for records to federal agencies... including to US Justice Dept

Seeking: Agency communication before Jan 20 w/ M Meadows, S Powell, R Giuliani, J Ellis

Documents about possibility of invoking "Insurrection Act" pic.twitter.com/uutcxDTYs3

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 25, 2021

This will be going on forever.

if they get solid documentation, I'm good with this

.@VP Harris lays flowers at Hanoi memorial where John McCain’s plane was shot down.

"He was an extraordinary American. A hero...he loved our country. He was so courageous and really lived the life of a hero...always fought for the best of who we are." pic.twitter.com/9KgZJ9GWCm

— CSPAN (@cspan) August 25, 2021

Haha holy shit, yeah I found a translation of the inscription on ithttps://t.co/qTWPoAwojF pic.twitter.com/UrnYYVNFAw

— Climate Apocalypse Now (@DanFmTo) August 25, 2021

milo seems unfamiliar with the strict social conventions associated with delivering a eulogy to a public figure, while laying a wreath on their memorial.

their memorial.

...

hegemony works in mysterious ways

Their was a rider on one of the stimmy bills that outlawed badmouthing McCain.

once again reality outdoes Veep

We Got New Benghazi

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/afghanistan-news-taliban-refugees-08-26-21-intl/index.html

See, this just wouldn't have happened had the US stayed there forever.

“It’s time for accountability, starting with those whose failed planning allowed these attacks to occur. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, and Mark Milley should all resign or face impeachment and removal from office,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said in a statement referring to the president, vice president, two Cabinet officials and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Under Blackburn’s scenario, Pelosi would be next in line to become president.

In his remarks to reporters, Biden rejected critics who said the United States should not be cooperating with the Taliban on the defense of the airport perimeter.

“No one trusts them,” Biden said. “It’s a matter of mutual-self interest. . . .They’re not good guys, the Taliban. But they have keen interests,” he added.

"i'm 114 years old,", he added.

the top tiers of U.S. leadership are crusty old farts. it's a reflection of the military, the DOD - dozens and dozens of layers between the very top and the very bottom. the very bottom layers are the high schoolers. the very top are these ancient fucks.

so many of the problems of the US would be ameliorated by old people (including myself here at the ripe age of 38) getting the fuck out of the way

all of the best people i know are younger than me. all the worst people i know are ancient and should have died a long time ago

The best lack all blue checks, while the worst
Are full of cholesterol medication.

It sickens me that this officer is in hiding.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-during-capitol-riot-breaks-silence-n1277736?fbclid=IwAR1uCg3YIfFjSpow_CPTv8w5F3Z94NRJta3jp_YqNr39Q1SCWezgroBunoc

I didn’t realize he’d gone public. I didn’t look at all the maga-leak stuff so I didn’t know who it was.

He is in a lonely position. On the right is a bunch of people who support Donald Trump, still. So, a bunch of white supremacists. On his left, people who hate cops and want to ban guns.

Is there a consensus on Havana Syndrome? I've seen some chatter from people on Twitter that indicates a lot of people don't seem to believe this even exists but they won't say what they actually think; do they think this is some made-up syndrome from burned out State Dept employees?

That was the Chapo take I believe

It's amazing how much of it is unknown, and what is publicly known the powers that be have been weirdly shady about. The default off the record claim seems to be blaming Russian microwave technology, iirc. But on the record stuff, there's been everything from hints it's psychological to some sort of mystery weapon. Here's the most recent deep dive in the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/vienna-is-the-new-havana-syndrome-hotspot

Fabulous horseshit

It sickens me that this officer is in hiding.

we can trace him by his badge number, IwAR1uCg3YIfFjSpow_CPTv8w5F3Z94NRJta3jp_YqNr39Q1SCWezgroBunoc

From the Minds what brought you everything from the Red Scare to WMDs in Iraq

I don’t think the State Department career employees were huge cheerleaders for Iraq IIRC.

_It sickens me that this officer is in hiding._

we can trace him by his badge number, IwAR1uCg3YIfFjSpow_CPTv8w5F3Z94NRJta3jp_YqNr39Q1SCWezgroBunoc

If the Russians had this technology, you’d think they’d go bigger than giving Dartmouth grads migraines.

A local bar set up a table with beers for all the soldiers who died in the Kabul attack, but they put out bottles of Bud Light and are getting roasted by local beer nerds for it.

That was the Chapo take I believe

blech, I resent that Chapo is a thing anyone is expected to give a fuck about

what can one do? what is the opposition to this if they can't be held accountable for just lying constantly? there's no drawback for it, it's all reward for them now.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) mused about busting Jan. 6 “political hostages” out of government custody at a raucous Macon County Republican Party meeting Sunday.

Responding to a question about how he would support the people who were “captured” on Jan. 6, Cawthorn began by calling them “political hostages” then said that one problem was that he wasn’t sure exactly where they were being held pending trial.

“The big problem is, we don’t actually know where all the political prisoners are, and so if we were to actually be able to go and try and bust them out–”

Cawthorn abruptly stopped and changed course.

“And let me tell you, the reason why they have taken these political prisoners is because they’re trying to make an example, because they don’t want to see the mass protests go on in Washington.”

Then, someone in the crowd interrupted: “When are you going to call us to Washington again?”

“We are actively working on that one,” Cawthorne grinned, before adding that he didn’t have a specific answer for the man but that “we have a few plans in motion that I can’t make public right now.”

He then falsely claimed that “we’ve 536 people who are being held in solitary confinement.” For one thing, closer to 600 people face charges related to Jan. 6. More to the point, hundreds are not in federal detention at all. According to a Guardian analysis in May, well more than half of roughly 400 Jan. 6 defendants at that time had been released from custody pending trial.

The Jan. 6 defendants were just one in a slew of topics Cawthorn discussed Sunday.

He referred to the 2020 election as “stolen” and said it was “wrong” to say that 2020 Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Forest lost his race (North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) beat him by around 250,000 votes).

Cawthorn falsely said that racial justice protests in 2020 had left “dozens of cops dead” and “cities completely destroyed and burned.” He said he would be willing to “prosecute Anthony Fauci for lying.” He said he supported pursuing the removal of Joe Biden from the presidency under the 25th Amendment. And after Biden is removed, Cawthorn added, “when Kamala Harris inevitably screws up, we will take them down one at a time.”

As the event wrapped up, Cawthorne signed a shotgun that the Macon County GOP is raffling off, and was asked about the government “pushing” the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Defend your children,” he told the inquiring mother, adding later: “It’s not worth it to put an experimental jab into your son’s arm.”

Gripping the shotgun, he closed by discussing gun rights.

“The Second Amendment was not written so that we can go hunting or we can shoot sporting clays,” he said. “The Second Amendment was written so that we can fight against tyranny.”

there's no point in "correcting" any of that, it's just one after the other. everyone there knows he's is lying and is ok with it

I think they believe it

Let me know when he’s gripping prison bars.

he never will! never will MTG or trump or any of these people. he obviously doesn't care what anyone left of the john birch society thinks, so that's out. so for accountability, only mccarthy or other party leaders can make him stfu, i guess? and obviously mccarthy's not going to do that. so...you can just win a congressional seat, lie your ass off constantly and openly try to organize a new coup, and then no one even bothers saying anything but what's the point.

if we're all so used to it that we don't even notice it any more - and i would argue yes, we are - then we are fucked

it's up to chuck todd to ask the tough questions now

will it have a positive effect on the midterms, Karl, y/no

will what, will cawthorn's fascist tours help the democrats? or help the republicans? i have no fucking clue. honestly i think it helps the republicans. it's working for them.

cawthorn is straight out of 20s/30s, just with the straight-up fascist way he operates and the way that he just continues and gains power

Saw a weird one this past weekend on the right wing flag waver front...I was cutting through Bardstown this week heading to the 'Ville way knee deep in the Muddytrump and saw your typical dualy pickup with two flags waving posted in the back BUT this time for some reason they had a French national flag and some red flag with a Griffin on it.

Got me...

lol, similarly, my wife and I came home a month ago from several days with family and after 5 hours drive pull into our dead end street to see a pickup truck with a giant flag on it we couldn't read and tons of people milling about. My wife started freaking out that it was Trumpers (we are in a relatively blue area).

It ended up that it was the young millennials next door throwing a party and the pickup truck was full of water and had been turned into a pool.

pickup truck *bed* was full of water

Cawthorne wants a cushy right-wing media gig, not actual power, I think. But, if it is The People's Will that he be crowned Imperial Praetor Maximus, he wouldn't say no.

still wish he'd died in that car accident