The Politics Thread

[DramatistDreamer]

This might inject some levity into the thread today.

 

Donald Trump's casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was demolished this past week after being closed since 2014. https://t.co/cFq3oSDZu9 pic.twitter.com/XbsUmxvbw0

— CNN International (@cnni) February 20, 2021

[Juliajms]

So many voter suppression laws on deck.

 

[Wendy]

The Lincoln Project's latest ad is perfection!

 

 

[DRW50]

I try not to get too hung up on "decency" stuff because I'm reminded of all the times we were told how kind and loving W was in spite of all the blood on his hands, but I do think this was a profoundly kind moment for Biden, especially as Dole endorsed Trump.

 

 

[DRW50]

 

[Faulkner]

Been seeing a lot of tweets like this from right-wingers:

 

[victoria foxton]

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[DramatistDreamer]

The SCOTUS decision on Old Orange face's taxes come as no surprise. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett may be 45's plants but they certainly don't want to be seen as 45's pigeons, especially by their SCOTUS colleagues with whom they must work with.

 

Having missed the spirit of "Fat Tuesday", I hope to soon be able to say "Laissez le bon temps roulez" for the SDNY.

[dragonflies]

 

[Wendy]

 

BTW, Ms. Donovan has announced she is running to unseat Boebert.

[Wendy]

While I have no illusions about The Lincoln Project, they continue to pump out some pretty awesome commercials:

 

 

[DRW50]

A look at the upcoming, crippling voter suppression laws in Georgia. The journalist, sadly like many political journalists on Twitter, tried to be "down" and ended up confusing many people with his wording - the legislation is not being dropped, it is going forward.

 

 

[DramatistDreamer]

While, my Wi-Fi and phone battle for loading supremacy, can people please refer to a bill as a bill and not a law? Also, if something is being unveiled and it has yet to even pass one side of a legislature, isn't it really still a proposal?

I'm not dismissing the severity of the threat but I saw this happen often in the buildup to the general election and the GA Senate runoff and it had the air of inevitability that, thankfully was in error.

 

Words do have meaning.

Let's not call something what it isn't, until it is.

Edited February 24 by DramatistDreamer

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