And author Tod Goldberg noted, "When Pete starts to smile, you know you're about to find yourself in the 'find out' portion of the show."
Was he talking to a dog?
The “Kubrick Stare” is one of Stanley Kubrick‘s most recognizable directorial techniques, a method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that the character in question is at the peak of their derangement.
:pete:
American political parties only exist to dangle keys in front of gormless libs while private corporations kill us all for money.
Buttitodds plan is clearly to not do the smallest, tiniest thing corporate interests won't like during his entire term.
Biden, his administration (and of course Buttigreg) didn't do shit for ~2 weeks after the derailment. Trump showed up so it's Orange Man Bad. That allows Buttimike to show up for his own photo-op and he's heralded as some kind of hero who is actually doing something.
Look, I'm as jokerfied as anyone else here, but it's amazing how democrats can let themselves get outmaneuvered on the left by the bad orange man.
I'd say democrats deserve to lose again, but they already showed that they would rather lose than actually run a country. Liberalism is bottoming but for politics.
I got banned for the nth time at r/politics a while ago. 8 months maybe. Unlike the other nth times - I never bothered to make a new alt because it seemed like a fool's errand. In that sub - there tend to be only two plausible outcomes for me...
- I say what I think - the trajectory is pretty clear. Something like... I pretty quickly I get a temp ban. And then a longer temp ban. And then - of course - a permaban.
or
- I end up censoring myself so much posting is no fun at all.
Like if somebody there says how "progressive" Biden is and that they are impressed by him - me and that redditor don't just live in different realities of the US - we live in different universes. Trying to pull them into my reality will never work. And I'll never be on their rah-rah-rah cheerleading team for Team Democrats. Why do I bother?
one of the best communicators [...] Democrats have
"The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue"
Name a better Dem communicator. I'll wait. In the land of the blind yada yada yada
'Viral'
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
It's completely manufactured lol. This is an article about a couple of tweets. That's news. The story here is not Pete's response, but the fact that some libs creamed their pants over it.
A whole ass article carrying water for Democrats even though they've had their hands in the deregulation of the rail industry in the past few decades. Despite the fact that they sided with the carriers to kill the railroad strike, which had a lot to do with the safety of railroads. Despite the fact that in the past week or two the Biden admin said it would protect Northern Southern from being taken to court.
This isn't journalism, this is cheering on your team for style points.
"Erm Aktshully" IRL. You think people burning in chemical haze give a shit if you are technically "in the right"? You're still feckless even if one of them DOES read about it in the news. The obvious answer is to hold the rail company responsible and help the people recover, but since you're such a spineless neoliberal jellyfish you refuse to wield the authority to solve a problem. Of course it would hurt your chances to sit on the rail board in ten years if you did, too...
His own spokespeople admitted the DOT isn't going to anything to try to change the braking regulation. The first step would be to redo the cost benefit analysis that Trump's administration performed and that is entirely within the power of the DOT. Sidenote: it is ridiculous that the first step in making a new regulation here requires a "cost benefit analysis." Because we wouldn't want poor precious companies to lose even a single dime in making rail transportation safer. We have to prove it will benefit them before anything can happen.
Cost: money
Benefit: you don't derail your trains nearly as often
Well seems pretty clear cut, switch out to 1800s brakes and fire 50% of the rail workers and we're set for the quarter.
American politicians fucking hate trains, why do you think there was manufactured hype for truckers in the 70's and 80's?
"Absolutely incredible", says podcaster and former Clinton campaign manager. "The way he fearlessly shidded and farted in his own pants in front of that entire crowd proves why he's the greatest asset the Democrats have."
I'm so out of touch with reality bc of mental illness but yet somehow more in touch with it than libs.
- Me: Naming the shadow people I see the most
- still me: WE WILL DIE IF WE DONT TURN HARD LEFT AS A WORLD RN
During his visit to the scene of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on Thursday, a reporter asked Secretary Buttigieg, “You mentioned the national political figures decided to get involved, it sounds like you’re talking about Trump. And then you said, ‘I need your help.’ How can he help?”
Buttigieg replied, “Well, one thing he could do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch. I heard him say he had ‘nothing to do with it,’ even though it was in his administration. So if he had nothing to do with it, and they did it in his administration against his will, maybe he could come out and say that, that he supports us moving in a different direction.”
What the fuck, of course Trump had nothing to do with it, he wasn't all that competent, and he doesn't fucking care.
As if DOT bureaucrats pay attention to any elected leader.
Trump proved that the unelected government treats the elected government as if it is not there.
didn’t these shitstains just break a strike where rail workers were (among other things) asking for safer work conditions?
Kinda feels like the joke about what people in Africa get whenever China vs the US visits.
But instead of hospitals or a lecture, it's whenever Trump visits they get branded water and maga hats, while whenever dems visit they get a long ass lecture, or not even like a direct lecture they get to witness a speech to the media.
Also the dork ass podcasters fawning over him are literally just doing 2016 over again, the fucking "Well the correct way to handle Donald J Trump is to own him with facts and logic while making him look like a fool!" shit. Idk what they are on about with "whenever Pete smiles you know you've hit the 'find out' part of the show", thats not a smile, his incisors are just growing too large cause hes not been given a bit of wood to wear them down with in a while.
