When I went to DC fall of 2018, those ugly walls surrounded the place. That seems to be changing. Hope I go back soon.
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When I went to DC fall of 2018, those ugly walls surrounded the place. That seems to be changing. Hope I go back soon.
Man it feels so good knowing competent people are back in charge.
The most distressing thing about the Trump admin to me was how Trump essentially turned it into a mafia org with his family and incompetent lackeys in charge. It'll take years to fix all the damage him and Mitch have inflicted upon the government, but I'm confident Biden's team can get the job done.
The most distressing thing about the Trump admin to me was how Trump essentially turned it into a mafia org with his family and incompetent lackeys in charge. It'll take years to fix all the damage him and Mitch have inflicted upon the government, but I'm confident Biden's team can get the job done.
There are even more fences now and until the threat of radicalized MAGAs is contained, I don't know how quickly they will come down.
Please tell me that filling any judge vacancies will also be a priority, while fixing all the other pending shit that needs to be fixed...after the last 4 years of the Republican senate filling the judiciary we really need to fill whatever availability there still is (obviously expansion could be good too but at least start with filling the open spots)
2017 inauguration:
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
And American carnage is his legacy. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, many avoidable. Millions of jobs lost. An economy in tatters. The world laughing at us. Deaths in the Capitol.
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
And American carnage is his legacy. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, many avoidable. Millions of jobs lost. An economy in tatters. The world laughing at us. Deaths in the Capitol.
It's pretty wild that Lincoln held a massive, security free 2nd term inauguration after the Civil War. Like no one told him it's a bad idea?
www.wbur.org
Looking Back At Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
Edward Achorn's new book is titled "Every Drop Of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln."
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This is why I'm tired of so many people on twitter shitting themselves the second Manchin says something they don't like.
When push comes to shove he will listen to Schumer.
Kilmeade is among the six opinionators who will get informal week-long tryouts to become the permanent host of the 7 p.m. hour, which is being called "Fox News Primetime." Also getting a turn are business news anchor Maria Bartiromo and conservative Fox News contributors Katie Pavlich, Rachel Campos-Duffy and former congressman Trey Gowdy, as well as commentator Mark Steyn, a favorite guest of Fox ratings champ Tucker Carlson. (The names were first reported by the Los Angeles Times.)
By trading an hour of news for opinion, the network quietly shifted the balance of programming, from one that gave a slight majority of its time to news — 11 hours compared with nine for opinion — to an even split. (Fox considers its afternoon panel show "Outnumbered" part of its news division, even though it often focuses on culture-war topics, like Monday's segment on "cancel culture," because lead panelist Harris Faulkner is a news anchor.)
The prime-time shift has rattled some staffers at the network — "a message that they care about opinion more than news," said one news-side employee who was not authorized to comment publicly and so spoke on the condition of anonymity.
There was particular concern voiced Monday when Bartiromo's name became public as a potential replacement, considering the criticism she has faced for comments she made questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.
Bartiromo's name and show were mentioned multiple times in a Dec. 10 legal letter from the voting technology company Smartmatic demanding the network retract "dozens of false and misleading statements regarding Smartmatic." In response, Fox aired a short segment that corrected falsities about Smartmatic on several of its programs — though when it was Bartiromo's turn to introduce the segment, she added as a postscript, "We will keep investigating."
"It is ludicrous and disheartening that we are rewarding [Bartiromo] with a prime-time spot, knowing full well she is among the most responsible for propagating the big election lie," a second news division staffer said.
"Maybe they wanted that sizzling-hot opinion anger," said another.
For current and former Fox News employees who spoke to The Washington Post, the switch to opinion at 7 p.m. was a sign that the network's news division has lost the larger battle to the opinion division, which generates far more viewers.
"They want to restore their conservative base. They're going to serve the people who brought them to the dance," said Carl Cameron, who spent 22 years as a reporter for Fox News before retiring as the network's chief political correspondent in 2017. "Conservatives are going to want to hear what's wrong with Joe Biden. It's easier for Fox to beat Newsmax and everybody else back into the woods than it is for them to try to compete with the real journalism networks."
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Good news: Senate Dems will introduce a sweeping pro-democracy bill today as the first bill under their new majority. Includes automatic voter registration, rehabbing Voting Rights Act, and more. It's the Dem answer to Trump's assault on our democracy:
Great news. It was funny/sad seeing people in other countries say "you have to register to vote in America? Here you just are registered automatically and you get a ballot sent to you in the mail automatically. You don't have to do anything." We need to be at that level.
Really hope this gets off the ground, it's desperately needed.
Here it is: going to the mattresses as the first legislative act of the Biden Administration.
I feel you. I'm not going to be able to truly relax until Thursday.
It feels like Election Day all over again, I remember expecting to see violence at the polls but afaik nothing happened (given that mostly Rs voted on Election Day tho)
And if so, you'll probably start seeing real cracks in how the filibuster is handled.
I'm not that worried. Now that all these Trumpers see that there are in fact consequences for their actions, I don't expect too much bullshit.
I think a good portion of this shit was them thinking it was sanctioned. With Trump off Twitter, arrests, and pushback all over the political and social spectrum I think this is going to shrink a lot.
Right-wing media really is going to be one of the greatest threats to the entire world moving forward, if it isn't reigned in. Taking a hatchet to social media companies is a big start, but Fox is still the king sitting on his throne.
Same.
I actually feel worse than I did on Election Day simply because Trump still had a chance to remain in office so his supporters wouldn't go bat shit insane just yet. Now he definitely is out and we've quite clearly seen they're ready to go bat shit insane in support of this degenerate fuck.
I hope you're right.
I'm weirdly not worried about tomorrow. I think the militias are scared right now because of all of the arrests, and I think if/when they decide to strike again it's not going to be during such an obvious target like the Inauguration. The fact that the majority of the protests on the 17th were total duds after all the talk of a "martyr march" reinforces this imo.
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I mean on top of this, there's 25000 military men there now. It really sucks that they basically had to turn DC into a frigging war zone because of Trump's bullshit, but at least I'm confident that nothing will happen.
Same. The months ahead are the bigger concern for me. Bombings, terrorist attacks, lone wolf or small group stuff. Law enforcement is going to need to be in overdrive to prevent disasters.
Better have the anti gerrymanding redistricting stuff
That's the point, this is the counter to all the fraud they've been selling, properly presented they either have to allow it through or if not perfect reason to nerf the filibuster
OMG FUCK OFF!
The media has learned nothing in the past 4 years. How about you interview the people who turned GA blue? HUH, NYTimes???
I'm not even going to link the tweet (because fuck'em), but here's the quote:
The media has learned nothing in the past 4 years. How about you interview the people who turned GA blue? HUH, NYTimes???
I'm not even going to link the tweet (because fuck'em), but here's the quote:
Katherine Faulders @KFaulders
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to send the article of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate later this week -- a move that would kick off formal proceedings the next day and opening arguments on the Senate floor the following week.
10:12 AM · Jan 19, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to send the article of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate later this week -- a move that would kick off formal proceedings the next day and opening arguments on the Senate floor the following week.
10:12 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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Alan He @alanhe
Senator Feinstein asked about her preferences in terms of impeachment vs moving on noms calls it a "moot question."
"Well, I think it's a moot question, this President's leaving office so it won't have any practical application. But whatever happens is fine with me."
10:17 AM · Jan 19, 2021
Senator Feinstein asked about her preferences in terms of impeachment vs moving on noms calls it a "moot question."
"Well, I think it's a moot question, this President's leaving office so it won't have any practical application. But whatever happens is fine with me."
10:17 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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