Author Topic: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town (Read 258708 times)

Two of those aren't new things. I know of studies back to the 1980's about how people estimate 40% of the population is Black or Latinx quite regularly. Nobody has ever figured out the explanation for the first one, the latter did show some evidence that constant talk about the "Guaranteed Demographic Changes" boosted the number in the 2000s and 2010s. Most people believe the United States is already majority-minority even though 70+% of it remains white and the majority-minority scenario won't possibly happen until the next century.

The New York and California ones have been explained in prior studies about whether people just take in national news or from sources like The New York Times versus actually paying attention to or favoring local news. It's not unusual to see things that happen in NYC/Cali/DC turn into "national news" stories just because all the news media people are in those areas. I've found it's not even unusual for local news to cover those stories to the detriment of local coverage as if anyone who wants local news actually cares.

Twitter's bubble effects are well known, even though a super majority of people aren't on Twitter this continues.

benjipwns · « **Reply #260 on:** March 17, 2022, 04:03:07 PM »

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1504518269386043402

benjipwns · « **Reply #261 on:** March 17, 2022, 04:04:04 PM »

The King is Back:
https://twitter.com/DodgersFanPG/status/1504500689665413124

https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1504156347130077190

benjipwns · « **Reply #262 on:** March 17, 2022, 04:18:12 PM »

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1503858442892627974

edit:
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1504271777131896834

tiesto · « **Reply #263 on:** March 17, 2022, 06:31:34 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on March 17, 2022, 04:04:04 PM

The King is Back:
https://twitter.com/DodgersFanPG/status/1504500689665413124

https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1504156347130077190

It's a shame Suozzi doesn't have much of a chance, I'd rather him than any of the other candidates. He cleaned up a fiscal shitshow in Nassau.

benjipwns · « **Reply #264 on:** March 17, 2022, 06:59:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/JonCampbellNY/status/1504468319763533833

Drag em king!

Quote from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-17/cuomo-says-he-s-open-to-running-for-n-y-governor-again

Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he’s open to running for New York governor again -- and would consider creating his own political party to do so.

The three-term Democrat, who resigned in August amid a sexual-harassment scandal, delivered his second public address in as many weeks, this time to a group of clergy packed into a small storefront pentecostal church in the Bronx.

Asked if he’s planning a run for governor, Cuomo said, “I’m open to all options.” When asked whether he’d consider creating his own political party to do so, Cuomo said, “I’ve done it before. My father’s done it before.”

...

Cuomo’s late father Mario, meanwhile, ran on the Liberal Party ballot line in his 1977 bid for New York City mayor, after losing the Democratic primary to Edward Koch. Cuomo got 41% of the vote in the general election but lost to Koch, who got 50%.

Nintex · « **Reply #265 on:** March 17, 2022, 07:14:13 PM »

CUOMO/WEINER 2024

"America's Comeback"

chronovore · « **Reply #266 on:** March 17, 2022, 10:39:27 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on March 17, 2022, 04:18:12 PM

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1503858442892627974

edit:
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1504271777131896834

I wish Keith was smarter and had kept the gendered slur out of it, but MTG is absolutely an ignorant asshole.

benjipwns · « **Reply #267 on:** March 17, 2022, 10:43:34 PM »

Personally, I'd rather he call a cunt a cunt than call for political opponents to be arrested no matter how stupid and incapable of learning they are. It's the second time in less than a week for Keith.

Nintex · « **Reply #268 on:** March 18, 2022, 05:47:03 AM »

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1504456891648610305

So the Hunter emails were real.
10% for the big guy

benjipwns · « **Reply #269 on:** March 18, 2022, 08:12:54 PM »

https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1504957031932907523

benjipwns · « **Reply #270 on:** March 19, 2022, 04:19:43 AM »

Quote from: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/daylight-saving-time-senate

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill to make daylight saving time permanent stunned many Americans, not least of which the senators themselves.

In a twist the Founding Fathers likely did not anticipate, quirky Senate conventions and a decision by staff in Sen. Tom Cotton’s office may result in an overhaul in the nation’s time zones.

Reporters and politicos were caught off guard Tuesday afternoon when the Sunshine Protection Act sailed through the Senate without issue, with no senators speaking up to object to it passing by unanimous consent. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, serving as Senate chair overseeing the motion at the time, broke composure, burst into a grin, and whispered, “Yes!”

“I was surprised that someone didn’t object,” she told BuzzFeed News the next day, while noting that Arizona does not change its clocks, “because we’re smart.”

Any single senator could have blocked the daylight saving bill from passing but many didn’t know it was even happening. Sen. Rick Scott, a permanent daylight saving time proponent who signed a similar bill into law when he was governor of Florida, said he would have gone to give a speech on the Senate floor if he had known. Asked to re-create his reaction to the news, Sen. Chris Coons issued a series of shocked stammers that is impossible to phonetically translate.

One Senate source with knowledge of the situation said Sen. Tom Cotton vehemently opposes making daylight saving time permanent.

“No comment,” Cotton told BuzzFeed News when asked if he opposed the bill.

The source said that Cotton would have objected to the unanimous consent request, but his staff never told him it was happening.

“No comment,” Cotton told BuzzFeed News when asked why he didn’t object to the bill.

Quote

Other senators, it seems, were not told by their staff that the request was happening.

Coons is one of them. He said that he and some other senators reacted to the news by asking Rubio if they’d given everyone a heads up, and were told yes.

“It’s literally an issue my staff and I had never discussed, and they made an assumption that I don’t really care about daylight saving time,” Coons said. “And I don’t know if I do! I’ve never taken five minutes to stop and think about it.”

During a hotline, a senator’s legislative director typically vets the request. But sometimes those staff will decide an issue is too benign or obviously doomed to bother their boss with. “A lot of things try to get hotlined every day,” said Sen. Dan Sullivan (who, when asked if he knew the move was coming, did not explicitly answer but said, “you know, it wasn’t, like, my highest priority in the US Senate”).

Nintex · « **Reply #271 on:** March 19, 2022, 06:33:03 AM »

And now they will get an earful from a hotel owner who has to change all the digital clocks at his properties and golf courses

benjipwns · « **Reply #272 on:** March 20, 2022, 01:36:15 AM »

https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1505308893697744896

well that escalated

james · « **Reply #273 on:** March 20, 2022, 07:31:34 PM »

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with an infection

Is there a prayer bank where we hope he dies quickly?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #274 on:** March 21, 2022, 03:56:42 PM »

Slip a pube into his IV bag.

benjipwns · « **Reply #275 on:** March 21, 2022, 11:31:13 PM »

https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/1505952943144640527

benjipwns · « **Reply #276 on:** March 22, 2022, 01:11:25 AM »

I love her more every day:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1505964846172491780

benjipwns · « **Reply #277 on:** March 22, 2022, 01:14:23 AM »

https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1505941313446981632

Senior Correspondent, Vox.

NEVER FORGET

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Potato · « **Reply #278 on:** March 22, 2022, 01:23:25 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on March 22, 2022, 01:11:25 AM

I love her more every day:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1505964846172491780

...and people were worried that Biden had dementia.

Polident Hive · « **Reply #279 on:** March 22, 2022, 01:33:14 AM »

She’s just quoting Interstellar. Blame Nolan’s writing.

Nintex · « **Reply #280 on:** March 22, 2022, 06:39:35 AM »

So I go into this big room with a large table at the Pentagon and it has all these beautiful clocks on the wall and I hear all this noise and I ask the general: "Why the hell do we need so many clocks?"
And he says: "Sir, that's the clocks ticking sir, they tell us the time in any part of the world even if we lose power".

It was the most incredible sight and they were tick tocking all over the place and I probably understood it better than anyone else, I call it the timezone.