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“For every system, there is a way to circumvent that system.”
Moist.
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Yes to both.
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Oh! I like your Caitlin gif better! More moistier moisties.
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We’re not supposed to say cuck either, are we?
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I did think of you when I found it…
Um… probably not.
It’s pretty dumb as slurs go anyway, IMO.
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Agreed. Here’s hoping it has a swift death.
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Well, it’s good that the preliminary results are in, pending official results in December.
I, for one, won’t breathe easy until Jan. 20, & he is sworn in. Too much fuckery can occur in the meantime.
Even then, it won’t mean diddly-squat, unless those Georgia Senators to be elected are Democratic.
Otherwise, Moscow Mitch will be running things until at least 2022. I don’t see Joe even thinking about engaging in the sort of skullduggery that the present (mal)administration does as a matter of course.
AOC had a fine rant in the NYT about the various failures of the DNC, & she is spot-on.
Joe seems to treasure working with a side that has already & repeatedly shown that it has no intentions of compromise… a side that views compromise as weakness.
I don’t think Joe really knows how to play HARDBALL, & that’s what it is going to take to even think about trying to roll back the disasters of the past 40+ years. The DNC certainly doesn’t, & that makes them part of the problem.
This is just a reprieve. As AOC said, we are no longer in a free-fall to hell.
Seems to me, we are still headed there, just not quite as quickly.
For the time being.
This system is BROKEN.
The fact that the likes of Lord Dampnut could infest the White House proves it.
Anyone who has broken a bone can attest to the fact that it isn’t always apparent that the bone is, in fact, broken. And that one can deny for a period of time anything is wrong. (Especially to oneself)
Until…
And setting a broken bone hurts like hell.
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
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that look on trump’s face when the secret service brought him back from the golf cart and he saw the crowds dancing in the streets celebrating biden’s victory, as much as it almost shames me to admit it, it was satisfying in a deep way.
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“Driver… what is rhythm?”
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Wow, when phrased that way, you don’t even have to argue against capitalism.
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It’s true that Biden will be severely restricted on how much of his agenda he can enact without cooperation from the senate, but that’s a far cry from saying that winning the presidency “won’t mean diddly-squat.”
Just a few of the many, many examples of meaningful actions a president can take unilaterally, without requiring “skulduggery” at all:
*Overturning harmful executive orders such as the ban on transgender servicemen and women in the military.
*Re-entering the Paris climate accords and directing the EPA to resume making meaningful environmental regulations and enforcement. (And also not suing states like CA that want to go even further)
*Taking the pandemic seriously and letting professionals and scientists help guide policy rather than pure political (or ego-driven) considerations. Even just setting a good example on masks and social distancing and communicating clearly would help to save many lives.
*Ending overly cruel policies on immigration, including things like family separation at the border but also reversing changes that were made to legal immigration rules regarding refugees, asylum seekers, guest workers, students, etc.
*NOT nominating any additional arch-conservative judges to the federal courts. (Yes, the Senate can prevent him from putting in the people he wants, but they can’t force him to nominate any bad people)
So I think it’s pretty apparent that, however incomplete this election victory may have been, it’s most definitely not meaningless.
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But if Biden can’t deliver clear quality of life improvements, and find a way to fight back against our poisonous media, the narrow margins of victory will become a Republican sweep in just two years.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-austerity-return-hypocrisy
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Even clearer when you shift the hyphen a bit: antisocial-ism.
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Breathe it in
There is no need to forgive
— Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “We No Who U R”
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Keep An Eye on This
(Talking Points Memo)
November 9, 2020 9:43 a.m.
As I’ve said many times, the President doesn’t need to concede. He has a warrant to exercise the executive powers of the United States until noon on January 20th when that warrant expires. He can board himself up in the White House and refuse to come out. But it doesn’t matter. That’s it. But that’s January 20th, more than two months from now. The modern presidency has a formal process called the transition, which goes back to 1963. That’s a matter of statutes and there a defeated incumbent President has some room to play games. Trump is already doing that.
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Legally the transition is a process that allows the incoming President to get up to speed to become President, to get the keys literally and figuratively. The incoming team starts getting briefings, starts getting a budget to run background checks on new staff and nominees, budgets to get everything ready. But the decision to start that process comes down to a Trump appointee who runs the Government Services Administration. That is an important but mundane and little remarked agency that basically serves as the government landlord, runs the buildings and so forth.
That person, Emily W. Murphy, has to write a letter that says it’s clear who won in advance of the electoral college actually meeting. So we’re going to start this process. So far President Trump has prevented her from making that finding and writing that letter. So all the stuff that normally happens cannot happen. At least not yet.
As I said, this doesn’t fundamentally change anything. But it risks making the whole process much bumpier and getting the Biden administration off to a slow start.
I don’t think this can go on until January. The electors meet and vote in the states on December 14th and their votes must be received by the President of the Senate by December 23rd.
Those are hard constitutional facts. To date, the head of the GSA can reasonably say that we don’t really know as a fact who the next President is. Most states really are still counting and I don’t think any of them have certified their results. The point of the Presidential Transition Act is to allow things to get prepared in advance of these formalities. By December 14th we will know. And I suspect that will force Murphy’s hand. But until then, if President Trump doesn’t admit he lost, we’re in this holding pattern.
Again, this isn’t about who gets to be President. It’s about allowing the new President access to information and budgets and government services that allows them to prepare to be President. As you’d expect, President Trump is exploiting his rapidly evaporating power to make it as complicated as possible.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) is editor and publisher of TPM.
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