US Politics: Time for the Stormy season with a chance of conviction

[DMC]

31 minutes ago, Zorral said:

This article with author might be of interest to your students.

Thanks!
 

4 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Is MTG refraining on the Motion to Vacate… because she knows it will fail?

It would fail right now.  Apparently their hope is it will gain steam with the week recess.  Plus, ya know, MCs often just want to go home.  How this influences congressional behavior cannot be underestimated.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

18 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

When has the prospect of failure ever deterred the Trailer Gweene?

Call me crazy but it feels like many are getting tired of her shreking tirades…

[A Horse Named Stranger]

Call me when she loses her seat (either in a primary or GE)

Edited April 20 by A Horse Named Stranger

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

6 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Call me when she loses her seat (either in a primary or GE)

More the causus than northwestern Georgia.

[A True Kaniggit]

1 minute ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

More the causus than northwestern Georgia.

Damn Southerners. 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

1 minute ago, A True Kaniggit said:

Damn Southerners. 

The Georgia Mountians are noted for… unpleasant things.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

I mean Ken fucking (it's his middle name) Buck called out her incompetence and insanity and fell out of favour with the MAGA crowd and he essentially had to resign.

So while some mainstream conservatives might have grown as tired of her as you and the rest of us, the main chunk of her party hasn't.

Edited April 20 by A Horse Named Stranger

[A True Kaniggit]

2 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

The Georgia Mountians are noted for… unpleasant things.

Yeah. Like fiddle duels. 

[Week]

20 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

I'm disappointed with AI there. The obvious nickname for the orange felon is obviously *drumroll*

Fartosaurus Snore

I admit, his previous short lived name Don Snoreleone was better, but it omitted the farts.

 

I suspect your diet might be a wee bit healthier. Obviously I could be wrong, and you ignore medical advice and also go hard for the MacDonald's BicMac with fries and ketchup diet. YOLO?

Non-American interloper!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's

15 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

The Georgia Mountians are noted for… unpleasant things.

I can't believe that this was carved in 1972 AND still exists -- 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain

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The park is owned by the state of Georgia. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 feet (514 m) above sea level and 825 feet (251 m) above the surrounding area. Stone Mountain is well known for not only its geology, but also the enormous rock relief on its north face, the largest bas-relief artwork in the world.^[1] The carving, completed in 1972, depicts three Confederate leaders, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.^[2][3]

 

[Zorral]

 

Spokesheads for the fascist rethug/dominionists dislike the national security supplemental bill.

April 20, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
APR 21, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2024?

 

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 .... leading Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev had his own reaction to the House’s passage of the national security supplemental bill with aid for Ukraine. He vowed that Russia would win the war anyway and added: “[C]onsidering the russophobic decision that took place I can't help but wish the USA with all sincerity to dive into a new civil war themselves as quickly as possible. Which, I hope, will be very different from the war between North and South in the 19th century and will be waged using aircraft, tanks, artillery, MLRS, all types of missiles and other weapons. And which will finally lead to the inglorious collapse of the vile evil empire of the 21st century—the United States of America.”

On the subject of the Georgia Mountains -- I must add, that the Blue Ridge Mountains have some of the most beautiful landscapes one can find anywhere.

Edited April 21 by Zorral

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

49 minutes ago, Zorral said:

 

Spokesheads for the fascist rethug/dominionists dislike the national security supplemental bill.

April 20, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
APR 21, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2024?

 

On the subject of the Georgia Mountains -- I must add, that the Blue Ridge Mountains have some of the most beautiful landscapes one can find anywhere.

And the mountains of Georgia, despite being known for unpleasant things, are stunningly beautiful.

[Martell Spy]

Bipartisan outrage boils over at threat to Johnson’s speakership
“These fringe people think they have the high ground. They do not,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas).

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/21/bipartisan-outrage-mike-johnson-speakership-00153527

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on ABC’s “This Week” that he would vote to table a motion to vacate through the end of this Congress and predicted that Johnson might have a “few progressive Democrats” voting to keep him in his job: “He did the right thing here and he deserves to keep his job to the end of this term.”

In another sign of Democrats’ opposition to getting rid of Johnson, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said on “Fox News Sunday” that what Greene, Massie and Gosar are “trying to accomplish by removing the Speaker of the House in this very moment after October 7 would only embolden China, it would only embolden Russia. It would only embolden Iran.”

Words like those have Johnson’s backers feeling more and more confident. Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), a key committee chairman who sought to convince Johnson to put the aid bill on the floor, said Johnson’s ability to put the legislation ahead of his own job prospects “garnered a lot of respect” from not only Republicans but “also from the Democratic side.”

“We’re in a bipartisan era in a strange way where Democrats will be able to back the speaker on the other side of the aisle and not have him vacated out of the chair,” McCaul said on “This Week.” He said he believed Johnson is “in good shape, I really do.”

 

 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

51 minutes ago, Martell Spy said:

Bipartisan outrage boils over at threat to Johnson’s speakership
“These fringe people think they have the high ground. They do not,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas).

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/21/bipartisan-outrage-mike-johnson-speakership-00153527

 

Anything that weakens “the Freedom Caucus” strengthens the rest of us.

[SeanF]

29 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Anything that weakens “the Freedom Caucus” strengthens the rest of us.

“Freedom” is a sick joke.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

50 minutes ago, SeanF said:

“Freedom” is a sick joke.

Yes.

So… I was just at the Grocery Store picking up wine for a houseguest staying with us for the weekend.  I’m standing in line to buy the wine and there is a guy at the next register who looks exactly like Colin Kaepernick.  

Since staying silent isn’t my forte I said “Sir?” He looked at me and I said, “Has anyone told you that you are the spitting image of Colin Kaepernick?”.   

He said, “Every day of my life.”  

I said, “A man to be respected.” 

I think that was him.  What Colin Kaepernick was doing here… I have no idea.  How random.

Edited April 21 by Ser Scot A Ellison

[Zorral]

So he's already miserable, and has weeks of it ahead of him.  Never before has he been situated in such squalid conditions and surroundings -- and he cannot leave.  They fear he will not be able to handle it.

Trump’s Trial Challenge: Being Stripped of Control
The mundanity of the courtroom has all but swallowed Donald Trump, who for decades has sought to project an image of bigness and a sense of power.

Shared Link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/us/politics/trump-trial-analysis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU0.6kXR.sRq15f9u9uNW&smid=url-share

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.... Everything about the circumstances in which the former president comes to court every day to sit as the defendant in the People v. Donald J. Trump at 100 Centre Street is repellent to him. The trapped-in-amber surroundings that evoke New York City’s more crime-ridden past. The lack of control. The details of a case in which he is accused of falsifying business records to conceal a payoff to a porn star to keep her claims of an affair with him from emerging in the 2016 election. ....

.... Mr. Trump has often seemed to fade into the background in a light wood-paneled room with harsh flourescent lighting and a perpetual smell of sour, coffee-laced breath wafting throughout. ....

 

 

[The Anti-Targ]

I imagine [enough] Democrats would vote to keep Johnson seated if only because the next speaker to appear from this Republican House members would probably be even worse (from the Democrat perspective). The only way to avoid that would be for some Republicans to break and become independents to strip the Republicans of the majority and undertake to vote in a Democratic Speaker. I don't see that happening. So I expect it will be Johnson all the way to the swearing in of the next Congress.

[ThinkerX]

1 hour ago, The Anti-Targ said:

I imagine [enough] Democrats would vote to keep Johnson seated if only because the next speaker to appear from this Republican House members would probably be even worse (from the Democrat perspective). The only way to avoid that would be for some Republicans to break and become independents to strip the Republicans of the majority and undertake to vote in a Democratic Speaker. I don't see that happening. So I expect it will be Johnson all the way to the swearing in of the next Congress.

With a majority this slender, Republicans are just a couple of arrests or vindictive resignations from losing their majority - before the election.

[SeanF]

12 minutes ago, ThinkerX said:

With a majority this slender, Republicans are just a couple of arrests or vindictive resignations from losing their majority - before the election.

I think the MAGA’s prefer angry defeat, to actually achieving some of the things (like border security), which they claim to want.

[ThinkerX]

49 minutes ago, SeanF said:

I think the MAGA’s prefer angry defeat, to actually achieving some of the things (like border security), which they claim to want.

I suspect that myself. I seem to remember Republicans complaining about actually having to work the last time they held the majority in both the House and Senate. They much preferred throwing bombs from the sidelines.