People of the age of most senators should no more wait expectantly for bipartisanship, at this juncture in time, than believe in the Tooth Fairy. Talk of good-faith working across the aisle sounds desperate and ridiculous.
This should be obvious — that the threat to obstruct now merely stands in for the certainty of obstruction later. Yet here we are, saying it again.
At some point, more Democratic senators need to stop begging Republicans for what voters have already given them: permission to govern.
On this note about what Republicans warn they _might_ do: After watching Jan. 6 and Republicans’ acquittal of Trump, choosing to ignore right-wing threats in response to policies they abhor seems — in principle, at least — much easier.
Fulmination about expanding background checks or limiting military-grade weapons, for instance, as “taking our guns”: well, or what? Extremists will take up arms and try to overthrow the government?
They already did that, on a bulls–– pretext. We already know they’re seditious.
In other words — to build on the point below — Republicans will issue threats against anything that matters. They also will never deliver votes on anything that matters. The only bipartisanship or unity available with them is one whose ambition, at its core, is doing nothing.
The wild part of Brooks’ attempt to conscript Black people for his argument is that Black parents — more than the general population — have accepted remote learning as a safety measure against COVID-19.
The paternalism of insisting “we must reopen schools now, for the Black children!” — when it’s easy enough to listen to or learn about what Black people say they want, which is _not that_ — takes one’s breath away. washingtonpost.com/education/2020…
Yep. Black parents have agency over their decisions — and have preponderantly chosen to avoid exposing their families until in-person instruction is made safe.
Stop calling it a “$2,000 untargeted giveaway.” It’s an apology — for the to provide a functioning nation-state in return for the taxes we work our tails off to pay.
I’m not even eligible, under the current means test. But I blew up my budget for extra child care expenses, tuition for the kid we were going to enroll in public kindergarten, and survival checks to our nanny — who couldn’t keep working (her young kids are Zoom schooling) …
… and couldn’t make rent.
Everybody whose net worth has five or fewer numbers before the trailing dot has gotten kicked to the ribs this year — sometimes repeatedly — while the president has golfed and Mitch McConnell has f––ed off.
Nate Silver, armed with his aura of expertise, is entering a second day of talking past an epidemiologist telling him, ‘Annie Hall’-style, that he knows nothing about their work.
Oy gevalt.
I meant ‘Annie Hall’-style literally, by the way. The epidemiologist told Silver, in their first reply to him …
More people deserve to know that Trump modeled the scowl in his presidential portrait after Churchill — because that’s what he imagines “leadership” looks like.
He thinks he’s Churchill leading the forces of Western civilization in their finest hour — when the only possible point of comparison that works is with Churchill causing a massive famine in Bengal because he couldn’t be arsed.
What a preposterously stupid, vicious human being.