Senate The US Politics 2.0 Discussion Thread

Now I can’t tell if you’re kidding.

I forget tone is hard to convey with just writing on a message board. My post was made 100% jest. I assumed it was such an obvious and low hanging joke I didn’t need to use an emoji or say (just kidding) in parentheses to clarify.

Politics are so divisive and crazy today I guess even a joke statement as ridiculous as what I wrote is well within the realm of possibility now. I did not intend my comment to fool anyone or be treated as real.

 

Let's be clear that the "culture war issues" include any black history being taught in schools, the right to contraceptives and abortion, and the right of trans (and LGBTQ generally) people to exist in the open. There is no compromise to be made. "Bipartisanship" is just some elite masturbatory fantasy yearning for a return to the peak neoliberal period in US politics c. 1993-2008 during which Democrats and Republicans would always come together to shower the rich with the entrails of the working class and poor. (Democrats still do that but slightly less now and Republicans always want them to go further. )

 

I agree. And Nacey ripping up Trump’s speech then justifies the GOP in their own mind to do anything.

I heard a statement recently about Trump as president that was something like

‘Saying what Trump did in office is okay because all politicians lie is like saying what Jeffery Dahmer did was okay because everyone eats things they shouldn’t.’

 

Oh no! Radical leftist agenda!

 

All the talk about this actually caused me to have a dream about Texans firing bullets at regular birthday party balloons of all colors. Lol.

 

That's because they already know that Republicans won't compromise where Democrats might.

 

And the only reason Republicans aren't compromising is because those pundits won't condemn them for their extremism and partisanship!

 

Are you sure it hasn't already happened? I mean, that rainbow of balloons was heading right for 'em!

 

In better news, Minnesota successfully passed the PRO act and it was signed into law by Governor Walz, enshrining the right to abortion into state law. We’re the first state since the Supreme Court decision to do it.

 

@mnjedi It won't be the last which will set up a massive showdown eventually when a GOP nut gets in and wants to send all states back to the 1940's when it comes to basic health rights for women.

Meanwhile, in Florida....



Besides "The Kite Runner" being a fabulous read, "Slaughterhouse-Five" is on the list. I read that book as a high school senior fall term. That was the end of 1995 and yet conservatives weren't as big of a snowflake as they are now. And I didn't go to a progressive high school at all. But sure tell me more about "the Democrats" being the major problem. Again they are not without their warts and are not what I considered a really strong political party but the GOP are straight up Nazi Stooges with no bottom. None.

 

Only the 1940s? They probably want to go much further back....

 

They'd repeal the 13th Amendment if they could.

 

The abortion rights law is called the PRO Act in Minnesota? That's confusing.

 

Yeah, “protect reproductive options”. Distinct from “protect the right to organize”, and yes, it is confusing.

 

@Chancellor_Ewok It's the only good thing about this. Lots of high school kids in red states now are interested in reading books they typically wouldn't because it's suddenly on a "ban list". I told a colleague in the English Department we should all start reading from the list and let students know what we are reading is now banned in certain states.

Meanwhile the circus is going to the SOTU tonight:



I hope someone and goes "just wanted to replay what Biden did unlike Trump".

 

In Greene's case, it's just a clown at the other end of the balloon.

 

I'm really surprised there's not more outrage about this book banning thing. Even Bomani Jones brought it up on his podcast yesterday. During Super Bowl week he said this is really dangerous (his podcast is sports related that's why it's surprising he'd bring it up during Super Bowl week).

 

I’m dead inside. Heh. Nothing surprises me anymore. But that means I can prepare for a great deal more.