In the mega thread - I posted this (prescient?) tweet an hour ago...

By Wednesday it’ll be two weeks and the baby will have to prove it’s looking for work.

“It is down to 4 weeks,” Biden says on CNN of his paid family and medical leave proposal.

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  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Imagine a leftist on MSNBC. I know, I know - it's almost an impossibility but lets watch. The segment has already started...

    Talking head: "What do you think should be done about Joe Manchin?"

    Leftist: "A very mild thing would be milkshaking."

    Talking head: "Uh... milkshaking? I don't follow."

    Leftist: "Milkshaking is when a person - a regular person - throws a milkshake on one of the very worst garbage politicians. It has a Wikipedia page. It's happened in the UK and—"

    Talking head: "I need to stop you there. Right there. Are you actually suggesting people commit violent acts on duly elected government officials?"

    Leftist: "Violence? Nah. It's just a milkshake..."

    Then there's back and forth where the leftist tries to express that it's simple civil disobedience and the host keeps saying it's violence. Less than 60 seconds have passed - the ad break is still minutes away.

    Talking head: "I shouldn't need to tell you - violence can lead to terrorism."

    Leftist: "A milkshake is just milk and ice cream. What next? Are you going to tell me using lactose in this way is terrorism? Lactose terrorism is not a thing."

    Talking head: "We need to go to a break. And when we - I mean I - return we will discuss this with our panel."

    And then there's a solid ~72 hours where seemingly every single lib pundit in American is speaking on the importance of norms, civility, the vital importance of the discourse, and the danger of extremism on each side of the political spectrum. "On both sides" is only used by the clumsiest lib pundits due to it being a Trumpian phrase.

    Full disclosure - I put myself on MSNBC. I couldn't help it.