The Biden Presidency - 2020

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by Racer

Senate passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

I wasn't sure where to post this but I hope this passes the House too. I'm surprised anything in the Senate these days has such broad support. I prefer having an extra hour of daylight in the evening over an extra hour of daylight in the morning.

I agree with you. I did not realize that this was tried back in the 1970s and people bitched about it due to kids be in danger in the darkness. The local high school is across the street from our subdivision and we already have multiple incidents through the winter months where kids are hit or almost hit by cars because there are no streetlights in the intersection whatsoever. Of course, the preferred solution is make DST permanent and build streetlights for the intersection.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/0...ople-hated-it/

[Lathum]

My neighborhood has no streetlights, which is a bit insane given we pay north of 11K in property taxes, so I am really not a fan of my kids being at the bus stop in the pitch black.

I actually like daylight savings time.

[Ksyrup]

I know this varies by an hour or more either way depending on where you live, and I certainly get the people up north hating it being dark by 4:30 (I've flown into NYC in November/December before 5pm and it's weird), but I don't think it's any more or less of an inconvenience than, say, those of us in Lexington KY having it stay dark within 5-10 minutes of 9am (!) in mid-late December and early January if you institute year-round DST.

Forget the kids at the bus stop - most of them will be through 1st period before the sun rises in January here.

What is the motivation this time? Even with DST, we just put our kids back to getting on the bus in the dark. Sunrise today was 7:49am. It was around 6:50am last week. Point is, regardless of which you choose, you're going to have periods of dark mornings.

[Kodos]

I say we just ban winter.

[albionmoonlight]

I think that people like complaining about the time changes more than they dislike the time changes.

[Qwikshot]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

I think that people like complaining

I think it's simpler.

[Ksyrup]

I think the best option is instead of working toward a 4-day work week, we should just move to a 10am-4pm work day 5 days a week. That way everyone gets at least a little sunlight in the morning and afternoon.

[JPhillips]

Final numbers on the TX GOP's very successful voter suppression efforts.

"13% of mail ballots returned in the primary were discarded."

"Rejection rate was higher in counties that lean Democratic (15.1%) than Republican (9.1%)."

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I think the best option is instead of working toward a 4-day work week, we should just move to a 10am-4pm work day 5 days a week. That way everyone gets at least a little sunlight in the morning and afternoon.

So that is 6 hours x 5 = 30 hours a week? Maybe 5 hours x 5 = 25 if you take an hour off for lunch.

Think you would need to move somewhere in Italy or France for that.

[tarcone]

I heard a rumor that Iraq has WMDs. We should go back in and take control of their oil fields just to make sure they are safe.

[PilotMan]

Thomas Massie is such a jackass and embarrassment. Such a preening pos.

[JPhillips]

Crazy, sometimes violent, AK Rep. Don Young has apparently died.

[RainMaker]

Didn't he hold a knife to Boehner's throat over an earmark?

[Thomkal]

Justice Thomas hospitalized with an infection and flu-like symptoms

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

Justice Thomas hospitalized with an infection and flu-like symptoms

[Lathum]

Not saying I want him to die, but it would solve a lot of problems...

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Not saying I want him to die, but it would solve a lot of problems...

I'm an asshole I and don't mind Biden picking a replacement*



*depending who it was

[Thomkal]

Further reporting says he will be released in a day or two

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Not saying I want him to die, but it would solve a lot of problems...

The fact that he doesn't receive more scrutiny for his wife's conduct is amazing.

[CrimsonFox]

Taking two pubic hairs should fix his health woes because Anita Hill to die on!

[JPhillips]

Better stock up on sponges. After Roe, the right's next target is Griswold.

Marsha Blackburn, in discussing SCOTUS nominee Jackson, says she wants to know her position on “constitutionally unsound” decisions like Griswold v. Conn (making birth control a protected right) that have “confused Tennesseans.” pic.twitter.com/Z9WEfJB0ro

— Ron Filipkowski ���� (@RonFilipkowski) March 21, 2022

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Better stock up on sponges. After Roe, the right's next target is Griswold.

The right's target was always Griswold. Being anti-abortion has just been a more palatable way to package it.

For good or ill, one thing Trump has done is show the Right that it does not need to hide behind euphemism anymore.

[Lathum]

I hope Jackson realizes nothing she can say will ever sway the Senators on the right ad just tells them they are POS racists.

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I hope Jackson realizes nothing she can say will ever sway the Senators on the right ad just tells them they are POS racists.

She'll do like every other modern nominee and just talk about fairness and balls and strikes.

Most GOP will quietly vote against here. A few like Cruz and Hawley will grandstand to show that they will fight the radical democrat fringe. A few safe senators and/or senators from more moderate states will vote for her so they can say "See, look how reasonable the GOP is compared to how the Democrat party treated Trump's nominees."

Considering how much else is going on in the world, I kind of wish they'd just take the vote now. Every Senator knows how they are going to vote. Let's cut out the dog and pony show.

[albionmoonlight]

dola: I forgot. You can keep the thing where Manchin sits in a room with a bunch of reporters who keep telling him that he is very important while he rambles on about whatever's on his mind that is only very loosely related to whatever he needs to be voting on.

That step seems un-skippable in contemporary politics.

[JPhillips]

Can't lose elections if the other party's votes don't count.

“In Tarrant County alone, 815 ballots were rejected over the ID rule—3 in the Republican primary and 812 in the Democratic primary. Those interviewed for this story said they could not provide a definitive reason for the discrepancy between the parties.”

[stevew]

19 Democrats in the senate are more than 70 years old. Just vote. A majority is not guaranteed forever.

[CrimsonFox]

Cue McConnell saying that "The nominee isn't qualified..." in 3...2...1...

[JPhillips]

Saw a great proposal. For all Senate hearings, opening statements will just be written and entered into the record without being read.

[RainMaker]

CRT just means black at this point.

https://t.co/wYFmFNUepU pic.twitter.com/NGa6SgTxdY

— GOP (@GOP) March 22, 2022

[Lathum]

That is unbelievable. Even by their standards

[RainMaker]

It's kind of one of the last plays they have left in the playbook. Her judicial record is pretty moderate.

[RainMaker]

NEW: Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) just said the Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia in 1967 and that states should be allowed to ban interracial marriage if they want to. (per @nkellyatJG)

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 22, 2022

[Kodos]

These people aren’t even embarrassed by how racist they are.

[BYU 14]

CRT = Bad

LGB = Good

Land of the hypocrites
Mother outraged by video of teacher leading preschoolers in anti-Biden chant

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

CRT = Bad

LGB = Good

Land of the hypocrites
Mother outraged by video of teacher leading preschoolers in anti-Biden chant

The apologies for these things are always the same, too.

"We are sorry that people saw conservatism for what it actually is. We have a policy of pretending it is something different in public, and the release of this unedited footage of us saying what we actually think goes against that policy."

[albionmoonlight]

dola:

On an unrelated note, I was wrong about the GOP using the KBJ hearings to model bipartisanship and civility to appeal to moderate voters.

I think that they, rightly, figure that the only people obsessed enough with politics to actually watch the actual hearings are GOP Base/Q voters, and so this has become a performance for them.

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

The apologies for these things are always the same, too.

"We are sorry that people saw conservatism for what it actually is. We have a policy of pretending it is something different in public, and the release of this unedited footage of us saying what we actually think goes against that policy."

See, I wonder about types like Jennifer Rubin and Bill Kristol though. They act like they really didn't know. Which...did you change? Did others hide it really well? Or did you just bury your head in the sand?

edit: Hmm. I guess I picked a couple of Jewish examples, which wasn't really my intent. But, I do now wonder if the religious aspect of the current conservatism is getting a bit too uncomfortable to ignore.

[albionmoonlight]

Rubin has always, from what I can tell, been pro-Israel/Judaism first and became a conservative as the natural response to that.

So when the GOP began catering to the "Jews will not replace us!" base, she didn't follow them.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

See, I wonder about types like Jennifer Rubin and Bill Kristol though. They act like they really didn't know. Which...did you change? Did others hide it really well? Or did you just bury your head in the sand?

edit: Hmm. I guess I picked a couple of Jewish examples, which wasn't really my intent. But, I do now wonder if the religious aspect of the current conservatism is getting a bit too uncomfortable to ignore.

I don't know about Rubin, but most of those old conservatives worked under or took cues from guys like Atwater. They're just mad that people are saying the quiet part out loud.

It partly works. There were a ton of people praising the Lincoln Project folks who had completely forgotten about the despicable things they were doing a decade ago.

[Atocep]

After watching clips of the confirmation hearings I'm 100% convinced they should just release transcripts of these proceedings and stop putting these morons on TV.

[albionmoonlight]

ABC reporter asks Biden if he was too quick to rule out world war 3 pic.twitter.com/OEjl9ijWhu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2022

If you take WWIII off the table right at the start, it is like you are negotiating against yourself.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

Cue McConnell saying that "The nominee isn't qualified..." in 3...2...1...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...Qda?li=BBnb7Kz

[flere-imsaho]

Yeah, this guy thinks Judge Jackson is too radical for the SCOTUS:

[sterlingice]

I don't know which thread to throw it in, but this seems to suffice:

Conservative Disney employees fear reprisals in ‘Don’t Say Gay’ debate, petition says

“The company we love seems to think we don’t exist or don’t belong here,” according to the petition. “Disney shouldn’t be a vehicle for one demographic’s political activism.”

Conservative Disney employees have “become invisible” and “increasingly uncomfortable” as the company actively promotes a progressive political agenda, according to the Disney Employees’ Open Letter in Favor of a Politically Neutral Disney.

I'm not sure if this is a "lol - how do they not see the irony" or a "man, they're a bunch of dicks for being so ballsy about the whole 'claim the 'other side' is doing exactly what you're doing'".

What? You're worried there are policies that seem to make other people invisible? Or want them not to exist?

And I love that if you go to the doc, it asks "I support Disney employees in their fight for a politically neutral Disney!" and the only answer you can select is "Yes".

SI

[NobodyHere]

The only guy whose opinion matters has spoken on the Jackson's confirmation:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/polit...ote/index.html

[flere-imsaho]

Honestly, if that's Manchin's stance, they should just wrap this up, vote, and move on. Anything else is just theater at this point.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Honestly, if that's Manchin's stance, they should just wrap this up, vote, and move on. Anything else is just theater at this point.

Yeah, we should've just let Manchin and Sinema interview her since everyone else's mind have been made up already.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Yeah, we should've just let Manchin and Sinema interview her since everyone else's mind have been made up already.

Speaking of, from the great chameleon himself.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday he will oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination for the Supreme Court.

"I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court," McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor.

The Kentucky Republican cited as the reasons for his opposition Jackson's answers on adding seats to the Supreme Court — a proposal she declined to opine on — and her record on both the federal district court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

"Judge Jackson was the court-packers' pick, and she testified like it," McConnell said.

She give an almost identical answer to Barrett on this question, and in terms of experience, Barrett brought virtually nothing outside of her time on the circuit court, so you simply flip the experience of ACB outside of that, with Jackson's, which is extensive, plus an Ivy League law degree and you really have no argument against her. This guy is such a fucking Ghoul, no soul, no substance, no shame.

[Ksyrup]

McConnell's announcement is just a calculated political ploy. He knew Manchin was going to vote for her, that his vote wouldn't matter, and that it made far more sense to play to the base versus cast a yes vote that doesn't matter. This has nothing to do with consistency, or what he truly believes about her, or anything other than a pure political calculation. And TBF, it's how he's gotten where he is today.