mtutiger

Just from my observation, a lot of people in my cohort are very rigid in their politics. Such that they want the accomplishments they want when they want them, and failure to succeed in getting those accomplishments is abject failure. And, frankly, they seem oblivious to political reality in terms of structure of government. What it misses is that, again, we don't elect Kings in this country. A President has a lot of power, but he or she still has to pass legislation to get things done. And right now, you have a small majority in the House and a practically nonexistent majority in the Senate with which to work with, which includes Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. Taking that into account, and knowing how the opposition is, it's impressive that they have gotten as much done as they have. But instead of using the current predicament as motivation to persuade or to elect different politicians, all we hear about is complaining about how ones vote doesn't matter and that they'll stay home. Republicans? They don't do that shit.... they'll complain about their politicians but will still show up in big numbers. Young D voters? You either check off all my boxes or I'll stay home.

I want to disagree, but I really cannot.

F Rick Perry

It's nothing new, but it's still jarring to see the former President's anti-semitism in full bloom. Could you imagine if a Democrat said it?

Honestly never ceases to amaze how Fox News is the self-appointed ombudsmen of mainstream press coverage when they are embroiled in a multi-billion dollar defamation case.

Figured this by-election result from the UK would be a good reason to restart this one. Thread It would appear that the BoJo honeymoon is officially over

All coming from the same folks who trash Greta Thunberg. Almost like the concern isn't about using young people for political ends but rather what political ends they are being used for 🤔

Predictable.

Some of it is the disadvantage that Dems have with the EC, but you wouldn't know from the media that Biden appears to have (per 538) bottomed out at -10 on average while Trump bottomed out at closer to -20.

Interesting stuff

I want to know who sent this text. Seriously, f that guy

I may be in the minority here, but I don't know that Fetterman is all that great a candidate. Conor Lamb would be better.

Never considered this possibility, but it makes sense in retrospect

Ya know, just a routine tour of the Capitol...

You mean to tell me that all the folks at Fox who have said this was all NBD were all begging him to stop the violence? Shocking.

Really contradicts the whole "its no big deal" thing we've been hearing for months

I think the idea here is that DeSantis / Abbott types should be rewarded or praised for going through the motions on the basics without factoring in other actions that are hostile toward businesses / local governments / schools, etc. for acting as they see fit on COVID-19. Unsurprisingly, some people don't feel the same.

One of us complains about Texas because they actually live in this state and are subject to the policies of the government here. And yeah, while the administration (under the auspices of the Texas Department of State Health Services) does advocate for vaccination and runs ads to that effect, it's not exactly surprising that message is undermined by the various statewide elected officials going out and vice signaling on cable news and conservative radio shows. Second of all, to the extent that the Governor is advocating for the vaccine, that support is also undermined by the fact that he wishes to impede the choices that businesses or local governments would otherwise make in terms of vaccine mandates. These guys all scream bloody murder about big government when in Washington, yet locally, they have absolutely no problem sitting in Austin and issuing dictates telling private businesses how to run their shops. Again, taking into account these actions, not exactly surprising that, to the extent the advocacy exists, it's overshadowed by actions that come across to a lot of people as being hostile toward getting as many people vaccinated as possible.

It's existence really makes governing incredibly hard in this country, at least in the environment that exists today where passing even simple and relatively uncontroversial stuff like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill is like pulling teeth.