The Biden Presidency is underway.

ShivaX · 2021-10-21T01:07:47.349Z

Papageno:

Or is Sinema onboard with a carveout for a new VRA?

Probably not since she knows she’d lose a fair election.

Now if Arizona’s GOP gets to pick winners and she swaps parties, well then this little gravy train she’s been on can get a few more million at the very least.

Alstein · 2021-10-21T01:32:36.745Z

No way would the AZ GOP accept her, she’s a crazy weird GNC lady with a huge history of being unreliable. Better to get an actual Trumpie, of which they have a deep bench of depravity down there.

Really her best hope of winning re-election would have been as a quirky mainstream center-left Dem.

ShivaX · 2021-10-21T01:41:25.276Z

Alstein:

Better to get an actual Trumpie, of which they have a deep bench of depravity down there.

They can always primary her, but getting her on board and getting Majority Leader again until then would be big.

Alstein:

Really her best hope of winning re-election would have been as a quirky mainstream center-left Dem.

Turns out going full on corruption pays a hell of a lot better than helping your constituents.

ShivaX · 2021-10-21T08:45:49.116Z

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Tom Nichols

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My former comrades on the right saying that "Because Mitch didn't dump the filibuster in 2017, he never will" are acting as if the past four years didn't happen. So, to use a political science term, let us engage in cutting the shit here for a moment. /1

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I have long defended the filibuster because I think there are things that should not be decided 51/49, that should require a greater show of comity. But Barrett's confirmation, in particular, made a mockery of that idea. This is hardball. Mitch plays it. Dems must play it too. /5

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This is no longer a civic competition between two political parties. This is a direct competition between a coalition in favor of the rule of law and liberal democracy vs a party that has become Trump's weird cult of personality and an authoritarian political movement. /7

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The GOP is using a Senate rule to forestall legislative action against state-level authoritarian measures from a GOP base that is enraged at losing a fair election. So if it comes down to that one Senate rule or democracy itself, dump the rule and pass the bill. Mitch would. /8

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138 · 2021-10-21T11:31:50.506Z

I love this one in particular.

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As a practical matter, I often advised not doing things the GOP could then adopt and use against the Dems (like dumping the filibuster). But that was from a different time, before the GOP became infested with the kind of mooks and poltroons who acquitted Donald Trump *twice*. /6

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Mooks and poltroons!

lordkosc · 2021-10-21T12:08:12.649Z

I had to google plotroon. :)

gruntled · 2021-10-21T12:24:54.876Z

Does that make you a mook?

lordkosc · 2021-10-21T12:26:40.794Z

Apparently! :D

Papageno · 2021-10-21T17:56:07.145Z

“Poltroon” is a Charles Emerson Winchester word. I distinctly remember the character using it.

Calelari · 2021-10-21T23:32:10.628Z

Man, y’all are acting like a bunch of jamokes in here.

RichVR · 2021-10-21T23:37:36.241Z

Quiet you addlepate beard splitter. You are a jackanape. And a shabbaroon as well.

Notice that they are in alphabetical order. Make of it what you will.

138 · 2021-10-21T23:43:21.866Z

I detect zero horseplay, misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness, or shenanigans involved.

ShivaX · 2021-10-22T00:24:53.336Z

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Apparently some version of me is President.

Menzo · 2021-10-22T00:43:37.730Z

We are all Joe Biden.

Strollen · 2021-10-22T05:37:41.130Z

After watching, Biden’s townhall, I have concluded that, unlike the former occupant, President Biden more than earns his salary.

Thrag · 2021-10-22T05:40:37.315Z

Any bits of note?

Gordon_Cameron · 2021-10-22T05:43:23.100Z

Timex:

sell it on the basis that it’ll grow the economy and make jobs.

Biden has been doing that ad infinitum, to the point where it almost seems insincere to me, but then I am not who he is trying to reach.

An appeal to collective sacrifice works in wartime, and evidently not many other situations.

Alstein · 2021-10-22T13:59:59.980Z

Biden has the most difficult starting hand of any US president since LIncoln (this includes FDR)

I’m not surprised at all his approval is so low, he inherited a mess worse than the Depression.

Would I want a comrade Biden?- certainly. However, I think Biden is doing the best job of any president in my lifetime, given the circumstances, and is a massive improvement over Obama and Clinton. I’ll defend him fully, even if he isn’t perfect (and often to the shock of leftist friends who want to dunk on him)

Sharpe · 2021-10-22T16:03:56.969Z

Alstein:

I think Biden is doing the best job of any president in my lifetime

I agree partially but I feel like his cabinet picks, specifically the Big Three of AG, State and Defense have been underwhelming. Merrick Garland in particular has been a vast disappointment to me. And Biden is the guy who picked those guys and fought for their confirmation.

In my view, the jury is still out as to whether over the course of a term Biden will be any better than Obama.

SlainteMhath · 2021-10-22T17:02:58.885Z

This guy Presidents.

I approve.