"There are lists of who gets what committee, and lots of reporting on whether, if, and when Republicans will seek vengeance by seeking to impeach President Biden; the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas; or others. One can only imagine what a Jim Jordan-chaired House Judiciary Committee would do.... The entire Republican ticket this fall, up and down the ballot, is filled with hundreds of election deniers.... There is no non-Trump faction of any significance in today’s G.O.P.... I have a bad case of election dread right now...."
Writes Susan B. Glasser in "I’ve Got a Bad Case of Election Dread/Whether or not there’s a red wave, it’s clear where this thing is going" (The New Yorker).
There wouldn't be so much dread if the Democrats hadn't spent the last 2 years using their narrow majority so aggressively. They set an example, and you're afraid to see that example followed. If the situation were reversed, wouldn't you be saying it's payback time?
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preëmptively
I always find it odd when people spell "pre-emptively" this way. (In English, umlauts should be restricted to names of heavy-metal groups.)
"There are lists of who gets what committee
Of course there are! What, are Republicans supposed to just wake up next Wednesday, slap their collective foreheads and exclaim, "gosh! We need to get going on this!"
Good god these people are stupid.
It’s not an umlaut.
Every single person living in Washington DC should get the Roger Stone treatment.
4AM raids. Records and communications seized.
Everything released to the public.
Then we can give them all the J6 Political Prisoner treatment.
That would be "preemptive."
A simple, "nonpartisan," and likely effective agenda for the next 24 months: Declassify and publish one embarrassing internal document or discussion with press/tech firms per day, every day. Do not hold hearings or make breathless accusations -- just present their words unedited. Make Libs of TikTok the standard operating procedure.
Then, leave it up to the insiders to split into 2 or 3 factions and take each other out.
“The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as “naïve” and “Laocoön” will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reëlect the President….”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis
The Democrats sabotaged the 2020 election. To do that, they unleashed their Brownshirt militia, BLM, on our cities to burn, loot and terrorize. They conspired with the CCP to release the virus, a horrifying crime against humanity. Democrat governors engaged in economic sabotage by shutdown.
Since then, they’ve engaged in police state tactics to slander and terrorize their opposition.
The Democratic Party cannot be sufficiently punished. What the Democrats have done in the past 3 years is so evil that that party needs to be driven out of existence.
Unfortunately, I doubt that Republicans will punish them at all.
That what you're saying isn't obvious to her is the problem. Intelligence and self awareness aren't correlated. I've started to think of that mindset as cult-like.
Does this woman's piece count as saying the quiet part out loud?
Vengeance by impeaching Biden?
He's let into the country over 5 million illegal aliens! That's a massive failure of failing to take due care that the law of the United States are executed and enforced.
is filled with hundreds of election deniers....
Election-deniers is a funny way to spell Biden-is-a-fucking-embarrassment.
Spot on. Karma.
Who are you going to believe??? Me, or your lying eyes!!
It's an umlaut.
“If the situation were reversed, wouldn't you be saying it's payback time?”
Even in retirement the law professor’s still asking rhetorical questions…
"Election deniers"
Is that old yet?
Again - "Election denier" is a phrase used by the left to cancel and exterminate free speech.
This is the kind of pedantry up with which I shall not put.
There's a big difference between "payback" and unwinding the corruption and insanity. You can be sure that the MSM will not be shy about covering the new agenda critically. That will be a change. Dissent will be patriotic again.
Biggest problem is, republicans are pussies.
Pelosi has bigger balls than all of them.
A talk show guy says, 'Republicans hold office, Democrats hold power.'
That about sums it up.
I'll be pleasantly shocked if they clean up anything...
Not that my opinion matters, but I think impeaching Biden would be the worst possible way to use their time. Getting obsessed with impeaching Clinton ruined the opportunities for the Republicans in the 90s. Unless there's a very, very clear crime, people don't care and want the attention on the problems they elected politicians to fix.
They don't want the change to result in yet more politicians assaulting walls of their political enemies.
Biden is, in effect, impeaching himself anyhow, no reason to get in the way.
They need to go all in on addressing the bureaucratic decisions and the underlings that support the structures that prop up political corruption and bad governance. Fauci should be investigated and others who are not senior administration leaders but who made devastating senior level decisions. Prosecute from below not from above. Hunter Biden should be investigated for corruption but not Joe, to keep Joe teetering on the edge and watching his empire fall apart around him and those dedicated to supporting the corrupt machine plucked away one by one.
Not only does that more effectively address the underlying cancer that afflicts whoever fills the job of President it also can be done in boring, administrative, detailed ways that gets things addressed without ever becoming something that media can grasp and sensationalize.
'“The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as “naïve” and “Laocoön” will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reëlect the President….”'
These are standard-issue parts of any typeface character set.
If not, they are living in the stone ages.
Naïve...just hold down the 'i' on a Macintosh keyboard and select what you want...
very little will change. Both sides of the aisle react the same to coming into power. People who made millions serving the public, are replaced, by people who will do exactly the same thing.
Unless republicans are willing to treat the federal government, and state government, like Musk is dealing with twitter.
the chances of that happening are slim. But we will certainly get a great deal of words thrown at this Republics problems.
expecting people who created the problem, to solve the problem happens every election cycle.
Will this cycle be different? I have hope, but not much. Money and power over principles is what usually happens.
The special tool we use here at The New Yorker
They're also known as subscribers.
As usual, democrats are accusing others of what they ARE actually doing. Never forget it when they scream and whine.
It's a diaresis, incase mere plebs cant infer the proper pronunciation. "(I was just kidding about the hole punch)"
"The diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most."
It's an affectation. In case you needed one more reason to find the New Yorker tiresome.
What in God’s name are democrats for? Because I get the feeling people want to vote for safety, economic security and for someone who wants to protect children. They are not for anything: they are against Trump. This new class of “election deniers” is just a proxy so they can associate people with Trump without saying his name, which is also some weird new superstition democrats have that strikes me as childish. They will actually apologize when they slip up and say “Trump.”
That monomaniacal focus plus ignoring and minimizing kitchen table issues plus disastrous results of Biden’s policies and executive orders is enough to reject their governance.
"Republicans are so close to power that they can smell it. In Washington, the spoils are being preëmptively divvied up."
They're going to be really angry and disappointed when the Blue Wave shows up around 3 am on Wednesday. I'll bet they'll really shake their little fists in fury.
umlaut - definition
NOUN
a mark ( ¨ ) used over a vowel, as in German or Hungarian, to indicate a different vowel quality, usually fronting or rounding.
VERB
modify (a form or sound) by using an umlaut
COMMENT
As indicated, the diacritical is not "English" although it is slowly being adapted.
It is accomplished by English writers in several ways:
HTML - using {} instead of left right angles to avoid posting problems.
Declare a tag in the header:
{meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /} - then use an umlaut in the text.
Type the binary or extended HTML representation:
Use decimal code and hexadecimal code like Ü,Ü and ü, ë
(the ë is a lower case umlauted 'e')
Word Processor
In an English word processor it's as simple as substituting or inserting a 'special character' in the text.
People with some word processors are essentially on their own to fake it ala New York Times: create a special symbol (typically a gif) and physically move it over the desired vowel. This does not mean that you're clever, it means you have a shit word processor and are too cheap to get a better one or don't realize OO and LO are free.
In all of these cases it's still an umlauted vowel once printed.
One reason we’re “so close to power” is Democrats disastrous decision to spend millions nominating Republicans. Blake Masters, General Bolduc, Tudor Dixon and the absolute home-run move Kari Lake. THANK YOU DEMOCRAT DONORS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THIS YEAR!
Not sure the republicans are all in on impeaching Biden. The bench as currently constituted can do as much damage or more and certainly won't do less.
But Mayorkas, Garland and various ways of hobbling DoJ are likely on the first paragraph of what-to-do.
Trump's two hospital ships have 2,000 beds. One to China, one to Iran would be a good start.
I'm trying to remember who famously said, "Elections have consequences."
Please, please don't impeach Biden. Dems need to get rid of Biden on their own. Don't do their dirty work for them.
Damn straight, Susan. Buckle up. Payback's a bitch.
They have prominent democrats endorsing the republicans here in Georgia. Tulsi Gabard is campaigning for republicans here in Georgia.
WAHHHHHHH!!! The rest of us have a bad case of Progressives fuck up everything they touch. Joe Biden was installed to create chaos...ala Cloward and Piven strategy, and we are close to them getting their wish. THAT'S why we are going to take America back. Away from the idiots who hate Americans and everything we stand for. Go live in Cuba if you hate it here so much.
Ah Susan, what goes around comes around. Even kids in middle school have learned that lesson by the time they're 12 or so. You're a slow learner.
That said the desire of the Jim Jordans of this world to claim a Dim's scalp or two should not be indulged.
As for divvying up the committee chairmanships and assignments, it's still a bit early. Don't count your cards until the dealings done.
I'm hyphen a lotta trouble understanding this line of talk.
Now that I’ve seen the Axios post preceding this one, this topic is even funnier. THANK YOU DEMOCRAT DONORS!
(Do you think they will fall for this trick one more time in 2024?)
Game theory dictates that you should reciprocate the bad behavior of your opponent with the same bad behavior in return. Time to sleep in the bed you made for yourselves Democrats.
Time to sleep in that bed you made for yourselves, Democrats. The irony will be delicious.
Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas absolutely needs to be impeached. Then send it to the Senate and see how many democrats reject our country having a secure border.
There wouldn't be so much dread if the Democrats hadn't spent the last 2 years using their narrow majority so aggressively.
The DNC manipulated their primaries, to force Bernie Sanders OUT, and Biden In.
Jo Biden ran as a "uniter"
Once in power, the DNC used what? 10 votes in the House, and NO votes in the Senate to push through an agenda MORE radical than the stuff that Bernie was pushing.
NOW. The DNC see it slipping through their fingers, and they can't figure out why? Go to HELL DNC
Was that a lamentation from Susan B. Glasser? It sounded like one to me but I guess it's more of a pre-lamentation since the crushing of enemies won't happen till Tuesday.
Thank you for the diaeresis dicussion. Do I need those dots over both the "a" and "e" in diaeresis?
‘The entire Republican ticket this fall, up and down the ballot, is filled with hundreds of election deniers...’
Don’t worry - the Dems will have plenty of election deniers this time next week. lol
The media love to portray Republicans as feral beasts. They are always seizing or pouncing or smelling power. Or as thieves divvying up the booty. That's never done with the Democrats. And the rhetoric sinks in. Even people who vote Republican may have internalized the propaganda to some extent.
The NYT is trying to soften the blow for the lefties:
While support for abortion access is driving the Democrats' most loyal voters, it does not appear to be outweighing economic concerns for pivotal swing voters.’
Whoopsie!!
The very minimum that a Republican House could do is to keep the January 6th committee going with new Republican members and leadership, and issue subpoenas for testimony and material to a bunch of Democrats. Sure, they will refuse to comply with the subpoenas, and the DoJ will refuse to prosecute them the way they did Bannon, but I would do it anyway to make the point that the system is two-tiered.
However, the Republicans have to actually win the House first.
"They set an example, and you're afraid to see that example followed. If the situation were reversed, wouldn't you be saying it's payback time?"
Spot on, Prof. It seems the progressives believe morality is a vector quantity, not scalar. What matters is who is getting hosed over, not the hosing itself.
"There wouldn't be so much dread if the Democrats hadn't spent the last 2 years using their narrow majority so aggressively."
Open borders, inflation caused by excess spending, promoting trans in schools and trashing parents, an avoidable war in Ukraine, a war on American oil, FBI abuse of conservatives. The progressives have destroyed the liberal wing of the Democrat Party.
Our hopeful Republican Senate and House majorities should govern better than the Democrats did. It's not a high bar, for gosh sakes. Focus on passing crime, spending and education bills and dare Biden to veto them. Come up with ideas and plans to fix the mess we've gotten into.
As to justice, impeachment and related issues- yes do that too but that is secondary to the other things. The D's got into trouble by ignoring all the important issues and focusing on 1/6. Don't make the same mistake. Personally, I think a lot of people should go to jail and I hope they do but that's not the reason you were put into power.
If you can do the governing part, the retribution part will be easy. If you go right to retribution and ignore everything else, you will be making the same mistake the D's made.
Be nice. Until you decide to not be nice. Then be ruthless.
"There is no non-Trump faction"
Depends on the meaning of Trump. After years of outrageous lies, attacks, and deep-state shenanigans, deplorables are pretty united in standing by Trump-as-target. The enemy of my enemies, etc. As the same time, there is a "faction" that thoroughly dislikes the foibles of loser Trump himself and is open to supporting a rival.
MJB Wolf - spot on!
On the issues most important to most Americans -- primarily, the economy (high inflation, fuel prices), the Republicans should be winning majorities in the House and Senate without breaking a sweat. To make things interesting, the Republicans are running multiple first-time Senate candidates who are either wacky, or exceedingly weak candidates -- Oz, Vance, Bolduc, Walker, Masters. Pre-election polls have done a very poor job of picking election outcomes in 2016 and 2020 . . . so it is unclear what polls, if any, to believe at this time. Absolutely no one seems to question that the GOP will take over the House. For Dems who will be licking their wounds after this election, there is a silver lining. In the current political environment, we can count on Republican leadership in the House (and perhaps the Senate) using their majority to instigate a food fight that will feature political retribution against the Dems and possible impeachment efforts . . . issues that most Americans have no interest in.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Republican overlords rescue the United States of America from the Stalinists and fixing the woke broke economy.
There wouldn't be so much dread if the Democrats hadn't spent the last 2 years using their narrow majority so aggressively.
Can I get someone to embroider that for me?
Ms Glasser have any thoughts on Congressional committees filled entirely by the Republican Speaker of the House? Power to subpoena (leak) records of sitting Democrat legislators? Maybe subpoena (leak) Hillary's income taxes? Then issue a report, using only that small portion of the information detrimental to Democrats. All in the name of DEMOCRACY!!
Pass it on...
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/11/03/could-our-politics-be-even-more-childish/
Pre-emptively divvied up. Is that kinda like how Nancy Pelosi made similar plans when she was going to become speaker?
This fake hand-wringing is ridiculous. This is how governing in a democratic republic works. When you are in the minority and you see your party gaining majority power as a realistic outcome, you immediately begin such plans.
As of right now, I don't want Republicans to seek impeachment of Biden. He's been a terrible President, but it's time for terrible Presidents to not be under threat of impeachment for being terrible. I've seen ~25 years of almost non-stop impeachment talk. It's ludricrous. Just mock how terrible Biden is and how that's the face of the democrat party - old, out of touch, ineffective, terribly execution, white, and from a long-line of folks in power at the federal level.
But Mayorkas? Hold him to the fire. Others too....disasters on their watch.
diaeresis - comment
@Beaver 7216 - "Thank you for the diaeresis dicussion. Do I need those dots over both the "a" and "e" in diaeresis?"
Diaeresis is pronounced [dīˈerəsəs] with the ae pronounced as one syllable and being distinct from the hard i.
Short answer - no.
You do however, need the s in di[s]cussion. :)
Clinton and Obama administrations have produced a staggering amount of ignored felonies and crimes against humanity. I'm looking forward to the next phase.
Bring back keelhauling!
"Unless republicans are willing to treat the federal government, and state government, like Musk is dealing with twitter."
Count my vote for hoping the Rs keep their eye on the ball. Don't spend much time on small victories that feel good but ultimately will be nothing more than a footnote. Have a plan. Nothing major will be accomplished without winning in 2024. That's the most important goal. Then clean house in the bureaucracy. Without that, you will be lucky to accomplish anything of much consequence.
NBC put this up, then; took it down once they realized what it was saying
NBC on Paul Pelosi:
“The front door was opened by Mr. Pelosi. He did not declare an emergency or try to leave his home, instead began walking several feet back towards the assailant and away from police."
There wouldn't be so much dread if the Democrats hadn't spent the last 2 years using their narrow majority so aggressively.
Name a time when they hadn't spent the last 2 years using their majority so aggressively.
They set an example, and you're afraid to see that example followed.
Especially now since the Rs have gotten over acting like ladies and gentlemen as Uncle Saul so slavishly counted upon them doing.
Trump showed them it gets you nothing while fighting back gets you everything. Now the Rs are going to start acting like Democrats.
No wonder they're scared.
We’ve been around the dieresis block a few times before here, but the bottom line is that it’s a provincial affectation invented by a partially educated New Yorker editor many years ago and maintained by the partially educated editors who’ve followed.
In a word, a solecism.
There's still a lot of fraud to overcome, I'm not counting any chickens.
Blogger Howard said...
I'm looking forward to seeing the Republican overlords rescue the United States of America from the Stalinists and fixing the woke broke economy.
I fear that is going to be a desperately difficult job. The Congress can try but Obama lost 63 seats in 2010 and he still managed to ravage the country. Not until 2024 will we have a chance to right the ship and that might be too late. A lot depends on whether Brandon bumbles us into a war.
the Republicans are running multiple first-time Senate candidates who are either wacky, or exceedingly weak candidates -- Oz, Vance, Bolduc, Walker, Masters.
I see that you prefer RINOs. All those candidate will win and it's about time.
Notice....who uses harmful rhetoric the most??
House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn: "This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany in the 1930s [if Republicans win]."
This is despicable, and he should apologize. What makes what he is saying any better than the crap Ye has been saying. Hasn't he learned ANYTHING from the Pelosi attack?? (or boyfriend spat) that his side blamed on the Rhetoric of the right?? This is just more of that poking the angry hornets nest.
Achilles said...
Every single person living in Washington DC should get the Roger Stone treatment.
4AM raids. Records and communications seized.
Everything released to the public.
Then we can give them all the J6 Political Prisoner treatment.
That would be "preemptive."
11/4/22, 10:53 AM
Yep!!!
It’s not an umlaut.
Pop quiz- Identify the diaeresis in this series of umlauts (there's only one)....
¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨
“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
― Robert Heinlein
But there is something that is almost as bad and in many cases more painful - budget cuts. They do not require passing legislation and are not subject to executive or judicial approval. You're Fired! The signature move.
Thanks for the discussion on diaresis v. umlaut. I had forgotten about diareses and in my foolhardiness just called them umlauts.
House Committee memberships are proposed by the individual caucuses, followed final approval by the full House.
My floor requirement for the new Republican House is that any proposal which places Adam Schiff anywhere near the Intelligence Committee must be voted down. I can tolerate the rest of the clowns...
The umlaut deniers aside, I don't know that I've ever seen preemptively spelled that way. But it does look pretentious.
(Notice I've spelled it here "preemptively" because the Blogger spell check says to, otherwise I would stick with pre-emptively (which gets a Blogger red underline.)
Earnest Prole said...
We’ve been around the dieresis block a few times before here, but the bottom line is that it’s a provincial affectation invented by a partially educated New Yorker editor many years ago and maintained by the partially educated editors who’ve followed.
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Given that the mark has been used in several other languages (including Spanish and French) for centuries, and for just a very few words in English for the same reason (to separate two volel sounds), it's hard to argue it was adopted in English by "partially educated" editors.
And btw: can you give us an example of a "fully educated" editor?
Would it just possibly be a "person with Ernest Prole's education"?
Trump led us to the sources of domestic and alien dysfunction, but did not follow through for diverse reasons. The question is if Republicans will remain on course, now that they are aware of the weak and treacherous links.
I can only hope that her fears are realized. However, that actually does require a massive victory by Republicans.
Howard: "I'm looking forward to seeing the Republican overlords rescue the United States of America from the Stalinists and fixing the woke broke economy."
At about 11pm EST on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Howard will flip the switch on his talking points.
Howard will cease describing the economic, military, foreign policy and national security "genius" of Joe Biden and all the amazing wonderful accomplishments of this administration and will immediately, on a dime, as if the past ceased to exist, Howard will then begin complaining about the horrors of our current economic condition, the failed military and foreign policy adventures of "the government" (a purposefully vague term) and the failed national security initiatives that exist today and Howard will lay it all at the feet of a republican majority that will not have even assumed office yet.
This is a standard Howard ploy, much as it was with obamacare as long time readers of Althouse blog will recall. According to Howard, obamacare was the greatest thing ever! Right up until republicans Trump was elected and then it became a huge failure which was all Trump's fault.
I shouldn't blame Howard as an individual for this. This is a standard lefty playbook play.
wendybar said...
Notice....who uses harmful rhetoric the most??
House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn: "This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany in the 1930s [if Republicans win]."
Clyburn is just upholding a Democrat tradition which stretches back to FDR's 1944 inauguration speech given while Americans of all political persuasions were dying in the fight against actual Nazis (Powerline's Steve Hayward, DEMOCRATS AND THE F-BOMB)
Doug Hasler: "On the issues most important to most Americans -- primarily, the economy (high inflation, fuel prices), the Republicans should be winning majorities in the House and Senate without breaking a sweat. To make things interesting, the Republicans are running multiple first-time Senate candidates who are either wacky, or exceedingly weak candidates -- Oz, Vance, Bolduc, Walker, Masters."
Another idiot decides to self-identify.
Thanks Doug.
"Pelosi has bigger balls than all of them."
And we're not talking about Paul's this time.
Even with a House and Senate majority there are limits to what the Republicans can effect with Joe as president. They will certainly not have a veto-proof majority. I lean very heavily against revenge impeachments. They are extremely negative and great means of getting the other side fired up; they also in no way address what people are presumed to be voting for. As far as incompetence I agree with the suggestion above that all should be revealed through hearings and reports, but a vendetta should be avoided. What the new Congress will need to do is pass legislation that clearly answers the needs of the 2022 voters. Immigration, crime, getting the Federal budget in order. Pass things that obviously help working men and women and then dare Biden to veto them.
random thoughts
1 Michael K said...
I see that you prefer RINOs
me: I want the most conservative person that can win in the state electorate. If that means Susan Collins, who votes with conservatives 95% of the time, I'll take her rather than lose the seat to a Schumer lackey.
2. Dems wield power like communists or fascists. When they take power, they assume they will never give it up again. See Harry Reid.
3. no impeachments, its a loser, but an aggressive committee investigation process across multiple areas looking to:
- slow down regulations
- reject leftist appointments
- highlight green graft, waste and fraud
- continue J6 for a while under new management and focus on USCP and House Leadership decisions that day.
- roll back the anti-oil stuff and disinformation at DHS
- wield the power of the purse at DOJ and DOI for example
ObeliskToucher said...
My floor requirement for the new Republican House is that any proposal which places Adam Schiff anywhere near the Intelligence Committee must be voted down. I can tolerate the rest of the clowns...
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Swalwell?
Impeach Garland first. Please!
According to the style book, shouldn't it be "election deniërs"?
Pretentious little snots.
- Krumhorn
Impeaching Biden in all of his sordid (The Big Guy) corruption in cahoots with his son would be a delightful payback, it's really a loser politically. Instead, how about turning DOJ enforcement activities to investigating and prosecuting the massive ....tens of $$Billions....of fraud in the Covid giveaways. Clinton Foundation gifts would be fertile ground for corruption of public office prosecutions.
- Krumhorn
I'm not sure about Susan Collins, as the drill sgt says.
In Arizona, the Democrats spent millions to get Kari Lake and Blake Masters nominated in the primary. Lake is now 11 % ahead and Masters is probably 2% ahead. Maine may be a special case as half the population is on Medicaid.
Herschel Walker is now ahead and a black "African American Studies" professor is sliming him as "subliterate."
"I am so old that I can remember when most racists were white." T Sowell.
Given that the mark has been used in several other languages (including Spanish and French) for centuries.
My point exactly: It’s not English. The whole point of our language is that we steal words and make them our own without dragging their dumb extraneous marks with them.
In English the dieresis is a decorative affectation, analogous to gratuitous umlauts in heavy metal bands’ names. If I’m wrong, find me a word in an American or English dictionary that requires one.
Sounds like a headline from the Onion: Hundreds of election deniers expecting to be elected and making plans for office.
House sub poenas. Prosecute refuseniks (Bannon is the precedent). When DOJ refuses (they are all hard line leftists) zero out their budget. Impeach Merrick Garland. Take over the J6 committee and release all the evidence. Investigate the conditions of J6 defendants and prosecute their jailers. It's a start. I hope the GOP has a list and a plan.
Emily Oster is in the Atlantic saying that we should have Covid amnesty in which we all forget how people like her locked down the schools and issued mandates which led to people losing jobs. Similarly this author wants us to forget the outrageous treatment of conservatives by the Dem House and Senate.
No.
But still we have to live with them so how should we handle it?
My idea is that Covid fascists like Oster should admit that they did not know the facts BECAUSE they silenced dissent and questions and they should say that they now realize the value of dissent and questions and the free market of ideas. Then we could move forward. And Dems should state that they intend to work with us across the aisle for the good of the American people because we are in tough times - cold winter, low fuel and so on. Then we could move forward.
But I think that Emily Oster went along with silencing people's questions one way during Fauci's reign and she wants to silence the questions another way now by an "amnesty", meaning, no questions asked or answered. And, similarly, I think the Dems will just go on saying we're Nazis. So we need to work constructively on improving safety, education and the economy and not let them anger us into flailing away with empty media spectacles. But get them, somehow. Maybe make Trump Congress's Special Envoy and he'd be looking for a deal - not a sellout of our interests or those of the Ukraine - but a deal.
Serious con law question: I know bills of attainder are unconstitutional, but can congress do a bill of DE-tainder? In other words, a legislative pardon?
Maybe it could be done with the power of the purse: “No monies appropriated in this Act shall be used to create, maintain, or report a criminal record for any of the following persons: …”
JSM
Cry more, democrats. What goes around comes around.
I agree with PaddyO 👆🏽
"The entire Republican ticket this fall, up and down the ballot, is filled with hundreds of election deniers...."
They say this like its the year 5 AD/CE and we're all lepers. As Obama famously and correctly stated: Elections have consequences.
As for committees and who should be tossed out of their positions, well, where do we start? Mayorkas would be a good starting point. He's earned it. And frankly, he's overseen a lot of ruin for this country. He should look forward to an impeachment. It's far less than the tar and feathers he's earned.
I suggest Susan Glasser get a bottle of Tums that will last a good 8 years. There's some change a comin'.
Better red, then dread.
When Biden was installed in office in January 2021, I wrote in the comments here that given the narrowness of the Democrats' legislative majority in a 50-50 country, they would be wise to tread lightly. Instead, they laced up their jackboots and commenced to stomping around. In an alternate universe (probably the one where Spock has a beard), Democrats might have looked at their parlous position and decided to work with Republicans to address the nation's problems, which were and are many. Instead, the Democrats have ruled for two years by executive orders and partisan legislation rammed through with the narrowest of majorities, and everything they have done has made life worse for the American people. Don't think the American people haven't noticed. Don't think that the American people aren't intelligent enough to parse out cause and effect. The Democrats' Hubris is about to be met with Nemesis. I am one drop in the coming red tsunami.
It’s not an umlaut.
Are you an umlaut denier, Ann?
It’s not an umlaut.
Are you an umlaut denier, Ann?
It’s not an umlaut.
Are you an umlaut denier, Ann?
I forgot to commend Ann for her observation that essentially the Dems should have known they did not have a solid endorsement for their program and should have tread lightly instead of going all in. I am suspicious that Bernie has been a driving force behind the overspending. I have no idea who has been pushing all the executive orders. I fervently hope that at some soon date the Congress will get back to work and monarchical rule by executive order becomes a thing of the past. It is not the way our system is supposed to work.
An umlaut serves the same purpose as an apostrophe in english or accents in Romance languages: it is a contraction. In German, there used to be oe,ue,ae spellings which were, over time, changed to the same vowels with umlauts. They are pronounce the same as the long form.
I agree with Lem that PaddyO is spot on.
"They need to go all in on addressing the bureaucratic decisions and the underlings that support the structures that prop up political corruption and bad governance."
If the situation were reversed, wouldn't you be saying it's payback time?
You're asking for empathy from a narcissistic sociopath, which is to say a typical New Yorker writer.
Not going to happen.
The Democrats ar bless by the infinite divine as being the only Party qualified to ever have power, and you are a heretic who must be stoned for disagreeing
Lots of explosive dieresis discussion tonite.
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My floor requirement for the new Republican House is that any proposal which places Adam Schiff anywhere near the Intelligence Committee must be voted down. I can tolerate the rest of the clowns...
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Swalwell?
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My Swal is fine - thanks for asking.
Revenge would be an extremely bad move for the Republicans. People are tired of the backbiting and bickering in DC. Doubly so with our present multiple problems not being addressed.
Impeachment of Biden would do two undesirable things. It would whataboutism Trump’s mistreatment cleaving the country beyond repair imo. And why lessen a burden for the Dems? They're going to have to get rid of him anyway. Let his own party do it. Thats a statement on its own. I'm sure his controllers had a plan of succession in place when he and Kamala were installed. But with luck he will remain in office for two more years. Who better to have as the face of the Democratic Party? His successors' policies aren't going to be any better if not worse and he will continue to drag the party down. Stay away from impeachment with a ten foot pole.
I like the idea above of putting bill after bill on Biden's desk. Simple stuff like funding for another diesel refinery*. Cheap by government standards, but a solution to a part of a big visible problem. If Biden vetoes something like that it resonates with voters when shortages occur (they will) and the Feds keep having to chase inflation (it will). If he signs it then it further splits components of his party and symbolizes what the Republican Party has to offer. Rinse, repeat. Lay the groundwork for 2024 which will be a favorable election year for Republicans in the Senate. Investigate the intelligence agencies, but don't make a circus out of it. Have the ammo ready for when they have a Republican President.
*A diesel refinery takes ten or more years from inception to production. It'd take even Trump at least 2 or 3 years. So it wouldn't be immediate relief, but it would be heading in the right direction nationally as well as politically.
Everything will be fine once our bums are in charge instead of their bums.
"It's an affectation. In case you needed one more reason to find the New Yorker tiresome."
Oddly enough, I knew about the diaresis's use for years, and I really wished we used it more often -- but when I actually saw it used in the New Yorker, I thought it was particularly ostentatious, and it gave me second thoughts about it.
Now that I think about it, though, I'm wondering if it was just the New Yorker giving me the ostentatious vibes, and I mistakenly blamed the diaresis for it.
And it's not just the diaresis I wish we'd use more -- I like job resumes to have accents over each e, so it doesn't look like I'm trying to resume something -- but being a "Command Line" type of person myself, I live and breath ASCII, and haven't gone through the trouble to figure out how to add diareses and accents to the rare English words that deserve them! (And this, despite the fact that modern command lines are now perfectly fine with using UTF-8, and could display such characters in text files with ease.)
Republicans PREPARE TO POUNCE in anticipation of garnering sufficient votes to SEIZE POWER and BLUDGEON DEMOCRACY by AUTOCRATIC MEANS and TRAMPLING ON THE RIGHTS OF THE MINORITY!!!!.....
Morgan Freeman Narrator Voice: By utilizing the "rules" and precedents established by the New Soviet Democraticals....
Assuming a Republican majority in congress, they better get moving fast and get off their asses. I think a long series of single purpose bills for Beiden to veto is a good idea. Most of government is appearance anyway. This would keep the blame due to Beiden alive for 2024. And definitely show all the documents from fbi cia doj plots you can, and j6 video. Also subpoena the corrupt FBI agents, find the hidden agents, Hunter Beiden, everything. But mostly get some decent bills passed that solve things, because Beiden will have to sign something.
But you have to do it fast so you can be done in 2023 to let the dust settle for 2024. You are not going to win 2024 if all you have is blame and bitterness.
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