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Welcome to November in the US, its Turkey Month. This space is going to be updated later, but for now this is replacing USNews, it remains largely focused on US News and Current Events discussion. It will be refreshed each month. This thread is running in Slow Mode to help enable stronger discussion. Some basic rules for now: - Try to keep it on topic, if the topic is heavily detailed and/or debated, consider taking a look at D&D New Thread rules and making it its own thread. This will not be enforced unless its distracting from actual discussion - Keep it civil. US politics suck, but we don't need to get down to name calling here. - When you share tweets or news, link the full article being discussed if it isn't, and comment on what your found interesting about it. Be sure to consider your source and if they're worth listening to before posting. - You are allowed to advertise any thread that is applicable to US Politics in this thread We'll try to keep a running thread of current and previous events in this post. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Is this the official Recep Tayyip Erdogan appreciation station?
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 14:55 |
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Will VA take about 24 hours to get votes counted to announce a winner?
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 14:56 |
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CommieGIR posted:Welcome to November in the US, its Turkey Month.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:11 |
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Thom12255 posted:Will VA take about 24 hours to get votes counted to announce a winner? It should take about as much time as it usually does. We generally know a winner within a few hours of the polls closing. Why would VA require 24? We won't know the final totals for a while, perhaps, but the last few votes won't affect the outcome.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:12 |
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AmiYumi posted:Oh, the reconciliation bill is finally getting a vote? Twitter noise indicates tomorrow for the vote on BBB but who knows
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:14 |
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I really think this post should be ground for in the new thread, and thank you JABC for doing the legwork on this. J.A.B.C. posted:So, after the last time I brought it up and you said that $6t was never in the works, I did a looksee:
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:16 |
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You know things are back to normal when the monthly threads return
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:24 |
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Grouchio posted:You know things are back to normal when the monthly threads return
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:49 |
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A new NPR Marist poll has some eye openers https://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_B_202110251104.pdf https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455186456679489543 energy for sure
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:56 |
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Nenonen posted:Is this the official Recep Tayyip Erdogan appreciation station? he was part of the Turkish delegation at that original thanks giving meal.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 15:59 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:A new NPR Marist poll has some eye openers Checking the composition of the sample... quote:This survey of 1,209 adults That leaves 327 voters who didn't specify an affiliation. The survey has more Democratic-leaning voters, but also thinks the Democratic party is the greatest threat to democracy? The only way that makes sense is if the vast majority of "no specified affiliation" are hard right-wingers. EDIT: The age breakdown of registered voters might be a clue: 18 to 29 - 16% 30 to 44 - 23% 45 to 59 - 27% 60 or older - 34% 61% of those polled are 45 or older. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Checking the composition of the sample... I too like to throw away information that doesn't line up with my worldview How about this one https://twitter.com/nataliemj10/status/1455139127465291785 Another report showing some rather alarming trends.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:09 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I too like to throw away information that doesn't line up with my worldview
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:20 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I too like to throw away information that doesn't line up with my worldview What point are the survey in the previous post and the survey in this post meant to cumulatively support other than some general call to "be alarmed!"
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:20 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I too like to throw away information that doesn't line up with my worldview I don't doubt that this is real, but like, where are these people? I live in a very conservative county bordering a fairly liberal city, and I see some posts from people, on Facebook and news sites and nextdoor. But IRL I see no one raging on a soapbox, no one protesting outside city hall. It seems like all the belief that the election was stolen has been channeled into new bumper sticker purchases rather than actionable organization, which would lead me to presume that it's cope from salty losers rather than a sincerely held belief. Seems kinda like all the insurrectionary energy is at the "vague crabbing on unrelated posts" stage. Maybe it's different in redder areas?
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:22 |
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spouse posted:I don't doubt that this is real, but like, where are these people? This. There are a lot of Republicans who talk about violence to take the country back because it sounds cool and fits their stupid action movie hero view of patriotism, not at lot that would risk anything by doing it and even fewer among those that are competent enough to be dangerous. Let us all remember the Great Bundy Birdhouse Bonanza and how they didn't bring enough food with them to last more than a few days and were soon wallowing in their own filth when the water was shut off. Or the fact that the bulk of the Jan. 6 Insurrectionists were wandering around the Capital taking selfies nad staying inside the guide ropes like a bunch of tourists. This isn't to say these people aren't dangerous. They absolutely are. They should be treated as such and crushed without a single bit of hesitation or excusing for their actions or intentions regardless of how far they're actually willing to go in real life. They're fascists who want to install a mass-murdering ideologically reactionary dictatorship indistinguishable from Nazi Germany. But the huge bulk of them are clearly lazy and financially comfortable idiots who are looking for little more than a thrill, to hurt minorities, to express their privilege absent consequences, and to feel like they're part of a community that shares their feelings.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:43 |
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spouse posted:I don't doubt that this is real, but like, where are these people? Yeah I work in a part of Illinois that may as well be the deep south and it's nothing more than yard signs and bumper stickers here. These people don't do anything but complain (and, unfortunately, vote).
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:43 |
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spouse posted:I don't doubt that this is real, but like, where are these people? Maybe at a school board meeting?
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:46 |
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Oh, I agree that 99% of people who think the election was stolen will do nothing about it. I live in Colorado, and right-wingers are very worked up here. Just last week there was one of those drat "trump parades" that drove around my kid's school for an hour yelling about masks and freedumb. I think all of the anger is bring redirected to local elections like school boards. I will be very lucky if my current good school board that is enforcing masks makes re-election.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:49 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Oh, I agree that 99% of people who think the election was stolen will do nothing about it. I think the danger isn't so much what these people will do about it, but what they won't do about it. They won't cry foul if their elected officials overturn a legitimate Democratic win in 2024. They won't fuss if President Trump and his cabinet of crooks and his craven Congressmen suspend elections and deploy troops to put down protestors. They won't care for a minute if small-d democracy ends in the United States. It's what they want, it's their end-game.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:54 |
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Oral arguments are ongoing in the Texas abortion cases right now (thread) https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1455172114642837511?s=20
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 16:58 |
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Politico says there are four key issues left to resolve in the reconciliation bill: Does PredictIt have a bet going on restoration of the SALT deduction? Because that would seem like easy money, given Pelosi's clamoring for it over the last year.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:00 |
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I'm surprised so many of the independent voters outright claimed to vote Democratic. The stereotype is that independent voters say that to be all galaxy brain. Then they go into the voting booth and pull the lever down so hard for Republicans that the counterforce sends their bodies into the ceiling.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:07 |
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I'm surprised so many of the independent voters outright claimed to vote Democratic. The stereotype is that independent voters say that to be all galaxy brain. Then they go into the voting booth and pull the lever down so hard for Republicans that the counterforce sends their bodies into the ceiling. Independent voters have generally been split down the middle on which party they lean towards. Less than 10% of all voters report to be truly independent, meaning they don't lean towards either party.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:17 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Oral arguments are ongoing in the Texas abortion cases right now (thread) Tweet thread says Gorsuch is one of the only two justices who is telegraphing taking Texas' side in both suits. Which is pretty wild considering his weirdo true-Libertarian ideology. Guess snuffing Federal power is the lesser Liberatarian evil than allowing a state to become a dictatorship with the power to strip one of it's citizen's federal rights no matter where in the country they go to exercise it by turning every fascist in america into a cop.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:29 |
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Sanguinia posted:Tweet thread says Gorsuch is one of the only two justices who is telegraphing taking Texas' side in both suits. Which is pretty wild considering his weirdo true-Libertarian ideology. Guess snuffing Federal power is the lesser Liberatarian evil than allowing a state to become a dictatorship with the power to strip one of it's citizen's federal rights no matter where in the country they go to exercise it by turning every fascist in america into a cop. After the unhinged reaction to a pilot spouting off a right wing meme the other day, it’s difficult to see which Americans, if any, don’t want to be some kind of cop.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:34 |
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https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1455202736090271745 WaPo with its own Jan. 6 deep dive, a few months after the NYT documentary about the same. Really brings to mind that 24- to 48-hour window where I honestly think Trump could have actually been impeached if the articles were ready, before the GOP spin machine managed to conjure a laundry list of excuses for senators to pick from to avoid pissing off their own base
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:40 |
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selec posted:After the unhinged reaction to a pilot spouting off a right wing meme the other day, it’s difficult to see which Americans, if any, don’t want to be some kind of cop. "Im uncomfortable that this pilot just yelled 'gently caress Obama' over the intercom" "oh so you wish you were a cop????"
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:46 |
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punishedkissinger posted:"Im uncomfortable that this pilot just yelled 'gently caress Obama' over the intercom" In the physical reality we unfortunately live in, there is a 99% chance that any rando you meet screaming about Biden is angry that he wants to use Xi Jinping's communist vaccine to turn our kids gay, for George Soros and the (((global elite))). BUT, there is a 1% chance that he is angry because he's a leftist upset with Biden's policies. There's no way to tell. Why you so triggered lib? You think anyone who dislikes Biden must be some kinda fascist or something?
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:50 |
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selec posted:After the unhinged reaction to a pilot spouting off a right wing meme the other day, it’s difficult to see which Americans, if any, don’t want to be some kind of cop. Southwest Airlines itself seems to be joining in on the "unhinged" reaction. Southwest Airlines investigates pilot’s use of ‘Let’s go Brandon’ anti-Biden jibe https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/01/southwest-airlines-pilot-lets-go-brandon-biden quote:Southwest Airlines announced an internal investigation after a pilot was reported to have signed off a message to passengers by saying: “Let’s go Brandon.”
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:52 |
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spouse posted:I don't doubt that this is real, but like, where are these people? some on the left believe that the Republicans are planning to legislate the democratic process away, and others believe that many on the right are ethnofacists, in the same vein as Nazis. If they truly believed this, why wouldn't THEY take direct action? People in this country have too much other stuff to worry about, no matter what their political beliefs may be. It's no coincidence that the largest scale protests seen in this country in decades occurred during the pandemic-induced shutdowns. That's also why we won't ever get another one
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 17:54 |
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I think the texas abortion ban might have been designed intentionally to send to the supreme court, based on a strategy of purposefully including extremely horrible parts as sacrificial buffers. If the abortion ban was just the 6 week/heartbeat thing, they would just have to up or down the process and the news would be "Supreme court allows/denies abortion ban" Instead they can now ever so graiously strip off entire wads of the whole blatantly unconstitutional abortion bounty hunter / citizen deputizing bullshit, carving down the majority of the bill ... but, of course, leave the actual abortion ban in place in service of their demented ideology. The reason why I think they're playing these games is because they're at least aware that they have to play it carefully with the legitimacy of the supreme court. Like, they know they can't just go all-in on the process of restructuring american law in service of a narrow right-wing dominionist attitude.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 18:07 |
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punishedkissinger posted:"Im uncomfortable that this pilot just yelled 'gently caress Obama' over the intercom" There was quite a bit more than that going on both in this thread and on Twitter. They let this weirdo on CNN: https://twitter.com/asharangappa_/status/1454617599854080003?s=21
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 18:29 |
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Reminder that conservatism is nothing more than a political front for white supremacy and should be treated accordingly If one encounters a conservative in real life, the proper procedure is to point and laugh at the person until they go away
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 18:31 |
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Kavros posted:I think the texas abortion ban might have been designed intentionally to send to the supreme court, based on a strategy of purposefully including extremely horrible parts as sacrificial buffers. The point is to slather up the chuds for the midterm - they're getting pretty close to achieving their objective of locking the dems out for good, or they think they are, if they're trying this strategy and cashing a valuable chip like Roe, even in a conservative fashion. They can go hog wild in 3 years. In related news: https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls...-november-2021/ More folks think the dem's chances are better with someone else then biden then do, among other things. StratGoatCom fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Nov 1, 2021 |
# ? Nov 1, 2021 18:37 |
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Deplatforming conservative speech shouldn't just happen on Twitter it should happen everywhere including some random pilot on a Southwest flight.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 18:38 |
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How are u posted:Southwest Airlines itself seems to be joining in on the "unhinged" reaction. "Prompting gasps" is still the funniest thing from this whole story to me, it just sounds like the plane was full of church ladies that heard a swear or something.
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# ? Nov 1, 2021 18:42 |
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This Thanksgiving, remember to cut all right-wingers out of your life You don't gotta worry about holiday flights or gifts when you're no longer on speaking terms with half of your family
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https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1455158700004581388?t=XhyRPrL-aOwIkirTPwLkzw&s=19 This seems ill-advised. On the other hand, this is an entire thread of some prime leopards eating faces stuff https://twitter.com/BradGeyer/status/1454151406588469248?t=eYL6CazPuhFPqKTd0v7FdQ&s=19
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