US CE Spring 2022: I'm convinced it's useless which is why I argue about it all day every day

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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The Afghanistan sanctions are even worse because it's specifically aimed at the Taliban, but because they are currently in charge it's loving over all of the people in the country, and it's not like Afghanistan had any wealth or a stable government before this

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 00:21

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 08:35

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Jesus Christ

https://twitter.com/ahoweblogger/status/1506668778368679937?s=21

Overturning a state ruling like this?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 17:43

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

So according to SCOTUS, red states do not have to redraw maps before an election, but blue/purple states do

https://twitter.com/davidnir/status/1506670824656355329?s=21

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 18:05

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

This court is just rubbing their blatant partisanship in front of everyone�s faces and the Dems are like �sounds good�.

They are blatantly abusing the concept of the �shadow docket� to make decisions on cases without even having hearings.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 19:35

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Somehow Kissinger still lives

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 20:45

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

RBA Starblade posted:

The lesson to learn from Lee Carter is that if you don't play the game right, even if the rules are stupid, you lose.

This is pretty much Politics 101, yeah

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 23:37

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Oh, ok. Sure. Nellie and Bruce Ohr need to be held accountable!

https://twitter.com/jannwolfe/status/1507051931604336647?s=21

# ¿ Mar 24, 2022 19:16

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Ginni Thomas isn't really a 'threat to the Supreme Court' when they are perfectly willing to take up cases that are perfectly tailored to allow them to strike down precedent whether she is involved or not.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2022 02:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Another Republican rep in trouble with the law

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1507169159196590088?s=21

You may remember that he got really mad when this happened

https://twitter.com/numbersmuncher/status/1507198598508953600?s=21&t=M01qgquLa3a44BXifRYPsw

# ¿ Mar 25, 2022 05:47

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Willa Rogers posted:

lol at this bit, too:

Oh, word? After two decades of useless warmongering voters aren't standing & clapping bc as you're trying to use it as a diversion from the domestic trash heap?

Also why would they do that for this anyway? We're not significantly involved (thankfully).

Domestic issues take priority over foreign policy like 99% of the time for regular voters. The only real exception was after 9/11.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2022 16:47

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

A big flaming stink posted:

Lol they're gonna be insisting an inflection point in polling for Biden is just around the corner up until Trump gets sworn in in Jan 2025

It sure feels that way

# ¿ Mar 27, 2022 16:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

It was about the same time that the BBB died as well

# ¿ Mar 28, 2022 00:43

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I swear to god, no one cares about the deficit. Republicans stopped caring about it when Bush was president. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Biden is living in the past that way.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2022 00:46

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

punk rebel ecks posted:

It's almost like if a party ran on addressing this issue they would dominate politics.

Sir, that's socialism and I won't stand for it!

# ¿ Mar 28, 2022 02:48

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

DeSantis is at best going to serve the role of Jeb!, Cruz, and the other assorted useless hobgoblins that Trump pulverised in the 2016 R primaries like a leadup to goddamn Wrestlemania.

Personally I think DeSantis is way more dangerous than Trump

He mostly avoids personally getting involved in controversial issues and leaves it to underlings. But he�s been able to accomplish most of his goals here in FL. The courts have blocked some of it, but a lot of it succeeded.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 12:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Srice posted:

Also he's able to conduct himself in public in a way that is acceptable to people whose main objection to Trump was his aesthetics. That's another factor that definitely shouldn't be underestimated.

Yes a lot of the moderate suburban voters who turned against Trump because he was so publicly disgusting would not have to worry about that with DeSantis

# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 14:12

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

VitalSigns posted:

Eh idk he barely won by like half a percent meanwhile Trump crushed expectations in Florida twice

You can say yeah ok but DeSantis ran in the midterms without Trump on the ballot to boost chud turnout, but if he needs to ride Trump's coattails then by definition he can't be doing that if he's at the top of the ticket, and if he's barely squeaking by in Florida he probably isn't winning the electoral college. Biden got crushed in Florida and still won handily

I think Trump is the most dangerous opponent just like he was in 2016 and we should not be hoping he runs again and assuming he's easy to beat.

On the other hand he lost and Republicans hate a weak loser. On the gripping hand he never conceded or admitted a loss which is a strong power move to them.

DeSantis probably wins re-election by more than 5 points this year

The Dems are running reheated candidates against him and the Dem base here in FL is eroding rapidly

# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 15:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Really having trouble giving a poo poo about something Hunter may have done when his dad wasn�t in office, when the Trump family used the federal government as their personal slush fund for four years

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 15:24

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Kalit posted:

https://twitter.com/anacabrera/status/1509621287722881030?s=21&t=U4OZNRULkcANYTxv42weFg

That didn�t last long. The summary of the judge�s rulings is

Hopefully this opinion is good enough to convince an appeals court to not overrule it. But I have no idea how all that works/if it matters. Regardless, it�s good news for now for Florida

I can pretty much guarantee this gets overturned on appeal, because our federal appellate circuit sucks rear end

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 23:03

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

A big flaming stink posted:

content, holy gently caress this drop in favorability:

https://twitter.com/MULawPoll/status/1509537134276980740?s=20&t=2XCkB9je2-Ti3fX90jkwMQ

that drop amongst black people is seriously blowing my mind

Biden has done nothing on voting rights or student loans, so it's not that surprising. Plus it's coupled with the end of a lot of the pandemic-era government assistance programs (UE benefit extensions, child care bonuses), and of course the rising cost of everything.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 02:59

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Kalit posted:

As a reminder, he has cancelled $415 million in student loans: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/17/education-department-forgives-415-million-in-private-student-debt-.html

Those were specifically for borrowers who went to colleges where the institutions may have broken the law

I'm talking about the general forgiveness that was part of the campaign

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 03:05

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

Personally I think the world we're living in right now is one in which they can and will restart student loan payments this year. It's something the Biden administration actively wants to do and I think they'll probably find an opening. Media talking heads will rationalize it, and I suspect many people who otherwise say differently now will likely accept those excuses

They�re absolutely going to do it before the midterms to try and convince dumb people that the �economy is fine now�

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 12:25

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I don�t understand how they don�t have an answer on this after more than a year

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 14:04

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

It's because kicking the can down the road is much easier than actually doing something.

Yeah that appears to be their �plan�

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 14:40

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The admin is removing the Covid restrictions (Title 42) next month

https://twitter.com/ap/status/1509933712460365826?s=21&t=RFMH4TsFleMNzGyjl1ptEA

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 19:12

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

VitalSigns posted:

White House to extend student loan pause through August

Not really a surprise since we weren't seeing the "you have to pay your loans next month" advertising campaign that they were doing last fall when they thought they'd be lifting the moratorium, but still a huge relief.

Hopefully this means the moratorium is locked in until after the midterms because it'd be really loving stupidly suicidal to make everyone pay up just 9 weeks before an election, but never say never.

I'm not going to put it past them, because they have the absolute worst political instincts

# ¿ Apr 6, 2022 03:26

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

That poll doesn�t define what �moderate� policies even are, and several of those other questions are very leading

# ¿ Apr 6, 2022 17:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Willa Rogers posted:

And bad-Dems' favorite lizard, James Carville, is helping to boost the PAC:

He did such a great job boosting Terry McAuliffe last year that I have no doubt he'll do the same in PA & lead Conor Lamb to an electoral slaughter.

Lefty Dems facing "moderate" challengers should pay Carville to work for their opponents.

I remember during the primaries Carville was a big supporter of Michael Bennet for some completely insane reason

# ¿ Apr 7, 2022 00:22

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Edward Mass posted:

KBJ got confirmed.

As I saw someone pointing out, this will probably be the last Dem nominee confirmed to SCOTUS for a long time

# ¿ Apr 7, 2022 19:31

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Willa Rogers posted:

Except in that northern states it was less "hadn't figured out how to treat covid" and more "turn nursing homes into death camps through various executive orders giving them broad immunity & allowing staff to go untested & unquarantined" at the behest of for-profit nursing-home owners who literally wrote many of the governors' executive actions.

There's a reason Florida wasn't hit by the early wave, and that's because the state wasn't running elder death camps like a lot of the Northern governors.

I know I recently said Rich Lowry isn't worth reading but this interview with DeSantis shows the precautions that he took with seniors during the early we-knew-nothing days of the pandemic you use as an excuse for the northern states, and those precautions ended up making a massive difference compared to the states that ran death camps for elders.

Arizona & Texas were both red states that have done much worse, overall, than Florida, and I do believe that's bc of Florida's early efforts at protecting seniors.

DeSantis has completely undone all of those early protections, and from what I gather he regrets even doing that according to past comments I've seen.

There are a lot of concerns that another variant is going to really hammer older people in FL because only a fraction have gotten their boosters.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2022 21:00

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

If you trust DeSantis� death numbers I have a beach resort in Alaska to sell you

# ¿ Apr 9, 2022 00:14

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The only thing I think of when I hear Tim Ryan�s name is when he tried to go after Bernie on something in the primary and just got obliterated over it

# ¿ Apr 10, 2022 01:34

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I doubt it

# ¿ Apr 10, 2022 18:40

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Sephyr posted:

We've been hearing "The GOP keeps being crazy and putting loons in the spotlight! It'll bite them in the rear end! See if it won't!" pretty much since Newt Gingrich stormed the stage to do jazz hands over Congress, and it has never, ever been true.

poo poo, the GOP apparently gets punished in the polls when they run boring wafflers like Mitt Romney, not hissing gargoyles like Rick Scott, DeSantis, and Trump.

Yeah I think the 'they're too crazy' argument doesn't hold much water anymore when so many crazy nuts have been elected and have rarely seen consequences for their positions.

I know it's also been discussed that often voters don't believe some of their extremist positions and attacks on crazy candidates even backfire at times. Which you would think wouldn't happen, but apparently it's a thing for some people.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2022 03:39

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Someone shot up a subway station in Brooklyn

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1513873096280842261?s=21&t=dZFBZJPwkiVB1diBv8tG3Q

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 15:05

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Well the cops can�t figure it out, time to bring in The Batman

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 17:58

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

This continues to not get serious coverage in the news, but apparently a mainland US military base is more dangerous than any other on earth?

https://twitter.com/sethharpesq/status/1513853829938360325?s=21&t=dZFBZJPwkiVB1diBv8tG3Q

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 20:07

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The two fake DHS/Secret Service bribing guys are allowed to go free until their trial (with a few restrictions) because the prosecutors still haven't been able to figure out what they were trying to achieve or who they work for.

One of them has 4 kids and wife who is "immobile" because she just had surgery and he needs to be released to care for them.

They can't leave the country, possess guns, pickup any criminal charges, or miss any court dates.

https://twitter.com/SarahNLynch/status/1513973592677101568

This whole story is too loving weird

They still don't know how they got all of that poo poo yet, but it has to be that they are affiliated with some kind of state actor

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 23:04

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I�ve seen concern that we still aren�t feeling the effects of China locking down and that it�s going to just make everything worse soon

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1514236069033693194?s=21&t=oXRLZOCB8npWFA2RLSLKqQ

# ¿ Apr 13, 2022 15:13

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 08:35

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

koolkal posted:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/california-lawyer-quits-over-allegation-newsom-meddled-in-activision-case-1.1751800

Not particularly surprising considering how much of a shitbag Newsom has been. All he needs is a blackface photo to come out to truly be our Trudeau.

He�s just awful in almost every way

# ¿ Apr 13, 2022 21:08

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