“Dead Serious” [DOT 11/3/21]

...is there any other kind?

11/3/21 myopicprophet 25

Last night we celebrated life and love therewithin on the DUAN. If you missed it, it’s worth checking out even just for the featured image.

This morning we will contemplate how “dead” is seemingly a prerequisite modifier for just how serious the seemingly ever-lasting joke that constitutes our reality is…

This is what happens when half of an entire country that dubs itself “the greatest experiment in human history” is manipulated into believing the craziest conspiracies to be true enough to vote one of themselves into the house of representatives. For those who haven’t been following along, Marjorie Taylor Greene – who was VOTED IN as a house representative in the state of Georgia and was voted off of committees, including the Education Committee, for threatening a school shooting survivor by indicating to him that she carries a gun at all times after berating him for that very school shooting being a “false flag” and that he was a “crisis actor” (also for *checks notes* THREATENING THE LIVES OF OTHER CONGRESS MEMBERS) – has been using her newly “free time” forcing votes in the house to adjourn…to the point that even Republicans are voting against her.

After Greene, a Georgia Republican, tried Wednesday to stall the lower chamber’s final vote on President Joe Biden‘s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package by forcing a motion to adjourn, Representative David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said he will propose a rule change to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Newsweek

You can’t make this stuff up…

The rule would mean a member can do a motion to adjourn only if the representative is a member of a committee.

We are at the point in which members of congress have to dismiss the trolls who are also members of congress by out-trolling them as though they suffer from hypogeusia in order to refer to an absolute vegetable on Gawker as a tasteless fruit.

“I’m dead serious,” he told reporters.

It’s like taking candy from a baby and telling the baby only babies with candy can cry.

Marjorie isn’t alone in her efforts…get a load, including the extra cocking, of this:

Party like it’s 1989!

Speaking of dead let’s talk about the $15 minimum wage proposal in the initial stimulus package the house ended up passing yesterday after 17 million people were removed from receiving the $2000 $1400 that was promised.

Let’s go with one of my favourites from The Root in Stephen A. Crockett Jr:

By a vote of 220 to 211, Democrats effectively punched Republicans in the face with President Biden’s first major piece of legislation since taking office. All that is needed now is Biden’s signature which should come—wait, let me make sure I’m reading this correctly—Friday, NBC News reports.

Friday?

As in the name of the movie starring Ice Cube?

Ummm, today is Wednesday. Why does it take him two days to sign something? He’s the president of the goddamn United States. Surely a messenger can deliver it to his desk. Doesn’t he have access and an account to one of those e-signature sites? I mean it’s not like this bill holds some of the most important and urgently needed aid in the history of this country, but let me guess: Biden’s going to hold it till Friday so he can take a victory lap as he signs his first legislative victory since taking office.

Biden responded the other day when asked when he will sign the bill, “as soon as I receive it”…anyway…

Don’t believe that President Biden isn’t waiting a few days to milk the fuck out of this accomplishment?

There’s a whole-ass entire article from the Washington Post about how the Obama administration blew the PR portion of saving the economy in 2009, and the Biden administration doesn’t want to repeat this again.

The Root

Democratic leaders hold a deep conviction that they blew it in 2009, when Barack Obama took office amid another economic meltdown and enacted a sweeping stimulus plan. Instead of getting credit for rescuing the economy, they say, Democrats let Republicans blast them for big-government overreach, and they lost badly in the 2010 midterms.

Wapo

I’m ok with the peacock-strut but why say “as soon as I receive it” if you intend to milk it for two extra days? I mean, he could have said, “I’m going to ensure it is signed before the 14th, in time to extend unemployment benefits” and he wouldn’t come across as the pompous asshole who hosted the Clarence Thomas SCOTUS confirmation debacle.

#believewomen

I’m not going to get into the Meghan Markle interview with Oprah or perennially pathetic Piers Morgan who is still mad enough that Meghan “ghosted” him to destroy his own career in front of the entire globe. It isn’t news to me that the Royal Family is racist or that when Piers Morgan was confronted with his undeserving sense of self-entitlement he chose to duck and cover…but speaking as a Canadian with at least nominal ties to the Royal Family, I will speak on things that are dead that have nothing to do with the career of the beleaguered bully’s bereavement…

I can think of a song for this…

…so what is the take of he who took the hypocritical oath?

Say what people want to hear so the words can live on in those malleable enough to believe them while the corresponding actions (or lack thereof) suggest the spirit of said words is quite clearly dead if indeed it might ever have been said to be alive at all.

There might be a difference between promoting a falsehood while assuring people you’re going to do something about it and acknowledging a harsh reality while assuring people you’re going to do something about it but when nothing actually gets done, the only evident difference appears to be in the presentation…

I’m “dead serious.”

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  1. …maybe it’s not quite the same thing…but you know how they say the devil is in the details?

    …well, it seems like this should be a good thing

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-protect-right-organize-act-225-206-sends-bill-to-senate

    …but…well…some of the details might be less great for some?

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/i-backed-biden-democrats-their-pro-union-bill-could-kill-my-career

    …& what makes it hard for me to understand is that according to the lady that wrote that second piece they could have kept everything the same & used a set of criteria currently used by the IRS for that purpose without running into the problem that exists because instead they went with one designed in the 1930s for who-the-fuck-knows-what-reason…& that might seem like just one detail in a big piece of legislation that could be an honest if awkward mistake to fix…except there was a bill passed in california last year that already made that particular mistake & demonstrated pretty clearly that it’s a problem…one which leaves open a path for GOP senators to point to a fuck up by the other side of the aisle & paint themselves as looking out for people trying to work for themselves despite how entirely backwards that makes the foundations on which they paint that picture

    …just…why?

    …what possible reason is there for that kind of thing?

    …also…are we sure getting out of bed today was the right call?

    • I’m holding off on criticizing that one. I just looked up that woman’s oiece and similar complaints and it seems awfully…. astroturfy.
       
      I am not saying there might not be problems, but I would be very cautious about buying into any argument which praises the sanctity of the gig economy. The Federalist is taking the same line as Kettler, who is labeled as the author of   “Would I Lie to You? The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World That Lies.” I am deeply suspicious she is telling the truth.

      • …I get that part…but I also get the bit whereby they invoke a different test in the bill to the one that self-employed people use when dealing with the IRS…& the part where how that plays/works out has form per the california example

        …even if the argument itself is disingenuous at some level why leave them the space to get that wedge in there if all it takes to shut them down is to use a standard that the relevant people are already familiar with from their dealings with the IRS?

        …the gig economy is flawed in a bunch of ways…& I have at least moderate experience with a fair few of them, to be honest…so mostly it kind of irked me that there should be any way to look at that reflected through some republican fun-house mirror as being an issue where the democrats somehow managed to leave a position on the table where they could be construed as dropping a ball the GOP had the wit to pick up

        …the underlying truth of the relative position of the two parties ought by rights to make that to all intents & purposes impossible…& yet there was an intent & purpose sketched out by which it seemed possible enough to cost some votes come those mid-terms …& I still don’t get why they went that way…what is the upside in finishing up with the same criteria that they used in california if those folks are trying to retrospectively go a different way?

  2. Speaking of details, look at this guy trying to take credit for an amendment he “worked” on in a bill he voted AGAINST. 

    • The nice thing about being a ruthlessly self-involved Manhattanite is I had never heard of a Roger Wicker before, though he is in his second full Senate term, and will be 70 in a few short months, nor had I ever heard of his birthplace, Pontotoc, Mississippi (wikipedia). 

  3. Speaking of the dead (let me link first so I don’t lose the thread):
     


     
    When the world is too much with me I immerse myself in topics I couldn’t possibly know anything about. So it is with the Meghan Markle-Windsor Oprah interview. (I am anticipating that the Sussexes will be losing their titles any day now.) If you act now you could start collecting material related to the interview and it would take you a lifetime to get through it all. For example, how exactly and to what extent do Piers Morgan and Meghan Markle know each other? 
     
    But the tweet above came out of the blue and I’ve been thinking about it for hours. Carole Radziwill (née diFalco), former “Real Housewives of New York” character, was married for a few years to a guy named Prince Anthony Radziwill, now deceased. The “Prince” comes through his father, and it is a legacy title because the Poles haven’t had a monarchy for a few years, let’s say. Anthony was the son of Lee Radziwill, now deceased. Lee was the sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, now deceased. Jackie O! had a son named John F. Kennedy, Jr., now deceased. Anthony and John John were very close, and when John John married Carolyn Bessette (now deceased) Anthony was his best man. Carole and Carolyn became buddies.
     
    Carole informs us in her tweet that Meghan Markle is telling the unvarnished truth about marrying into the British royal family, because just like her good friend Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, you might think you know everything there is to know about a famous royal personage (or “royal” in the Kennedy sense, and as sainted John F. Kennedy’s only begotten son John John was probably the closest we Americans ever got to home-grown royalty) you don’t really know it until you live it.
     
    Useful information, Carole, and, as Oprah and Meghan would say, thank you for voicing your truth. I’ll be thinking about this all morning. 

    • I think there’s a degree of this statement that can apply to anyone marrying into a family that they didn’t spend a lot of time with beforehand. Think about all the “oh shit my in-laws are all trumpers” stories we’ve heard, or stories about people who move to their spouses’ homeland only to have their passports taken away and end up abused or having to run away, except it’s a religious fanatics-abuses-white woman horror story starring Sally Fields. Or literally everyone on TLC’s 90-Day Fiancee shows. 

      • 100% this! Every family has dynamics that aren’t always visible or fully understandable from the outside. Whether it’s a “family secret” or “that uncle” or “narcissistic parent” most families have something that’s only easy to spot once you’re in the family.

        That said, I do lend some credence to the idea that it’s not hard to surmise what a family whose power is based off bloodlines would think about adding a you-know-what-they’d-call-her to the genetic woodpile.

        • A royal apologist has been floating the idea that this was all a gross misunderstanding and what the inquiring mind wanted to know about the baby was whether he or she would have red hair, since that’s rare. Top marks for effort, “royal source,” but low marks for making the landing.

    • I think a corollary to this is marrying into wealth. It’s been said before, but the rich aren’t like you and me. There are tons of nuances and behaviors and knowledge that go into being rich (think “old money”), even when someone doesn’t appear to be that different. My wife had a cousin who had a fortune then married into another. She seemed to be a disengaged socialite who only went to college for a year, but she hung on to her fortune after her parents died for many years prior to her marriage, through her marriage, and after her husband’s death all the way to her own. She would behave like she didn’t know what was going on around her, but I kept telling my in-laws “She’s not stupid — you think she is, but she’s not stupid.” She was taught to behave a certain way, and that appeared to be one thing, but she absolutely had an iron grip on her properties and investments. Her parents taught her to be rich. 

  4. Here’s a little “whistling past the graveyard” humor that I’ve been enjoying:
     

  5. A phone hacking scandal didn’t destroy Piers.
    Piers destroyed Piers.

    • Oh, he’ll be back. Someone will be there to give him another shot.

      • …I had a sneaking suspicion I knew who, too…but unless you spend more time paying attention to UK journalists who are, shall we say, “past their prime” than I’d expect the name probably wouldn’t mean much to you…& I don’t want to start bemoaning it before I know it’s really true

        …that said…I’m pretty sure it will be…sadly…I just hope at least it’s a net pay cut?

  6. I’d be able to take Crockett more seriously if he didn’t display his ignorance for the entire world to see.  There is an actual, physical process that takes place once a bill is passed by Congress to get it into the President’s hands for signing.  They don’t just send Joe Biden a PDF and have him click his digital signature.  They have to do a full clerical review of the bill to make sure that no other changes have been made, and that the text of the passed bill fully reflects the intent of Congress.  Then it has to be sent to both the Speaker of the House and the presiding officer of the Senate before it goes to the White House.  The fact that they’re doing this whole thing in two days’ time is practically light speed.

    • You’re right, and I think the Democrats need to be more aware that people don’t know this stuff. This bill is vastly better than the 2009 act in terms of focusing on things people understand, but there is still room for improvement on the execution.

    • I think Crockett covers some things simply in jest but Biden must have read his post and got all nervous because it was just announced that the bill will be signed today.

      Clerical  review – 0

      Carrier pigeon – 1

      I could also have been schooled on my all CAPS that mjt was VOTED IN but iirc she was largely ahead when her opponent had to drop out of the race.

      • Came to say that. Biden is signing it now. And yes, this was done with extraordinary speed once we got past Republican obstructionism.

  7. @MyopicProphet, thank you for the alliteration today: beleaguered bully’s bereavement…I always appreciate active actualization as per alliteration.

  8. Wait, didn’t we do this already?
     
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/recording-of-trump-phone-call-to-georgia-lead-investigator-reveals-new-details-11615411561
     
    Hold up. Another call? On tape? From before the call that wasn’t the first call but was actually the second call to a different … help me, someone. I think I’m caught in Groundhog Day. 

  9. What about the other POS congresswoman?  She REALLY likes guns!
     
     
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-boebert-pelosi-ad-sound-effect_n_60488e5bc5b60e0725f3dd38
     
    and speaking of POS…
     
     
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roger-wicker-covid-relief-credit_n_6049466dc5b672fce4ea3537
     
    and though I think this has been a long time coming, you never know, maybe they can pass a law or something stopping this shit pipeline?
     
     
    https://www.rawstory.com/federalist-society-investigation/

  11. Ohhhh SNAP!

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