The Political Thread

[Grim]

Yeah your food looks different than ours cuz we banned that shit so long ago. Your fruit loops for example.

Not to mention Europeans use actual cane sugar rather than shitty high fructose corn syrup.

 

[Samoa Looch]

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/15/trumps-attorney-general-confirmation-hearing

Democrats are expected to hammer attorney general pick Pam Bondi about her loyalty to President-elect Trump during her confirmation hearing after she bolstered his false claims about a stolen election in 2020.
Why it matters: If confirmed, Bondi's appointment would install a Trump loyalist in the nation's highest law enforcement role — empowering a MAGA overhaul of the DOJ, which could include investigating the president-elect's political enemies.

• Bondi, a veteran prosecutor and former Florida attorney general, was Trump's second pick for attorney general after his embattled first pick, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name from consideration.
• Bondi's confirmation chances appear far stronger than Gaetz's did — but that's not to say she won't face tough questioning Wednesday.
• Trump's nominees can only afford to lose a handful of votes given the GOP's narrow Senate majority.

DURBIN: Are you prepared to say under oath without reservation that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election?
BONDI: President Biden is the president of the United States. There was a peaceful transition of power.
DURBIN: Do you have any doubts that Joe Biden had the majority of electoral votes necessary to be elected President in 2020?
BONDI: You know, all I can tell you as a prosecutor is from my first hand experience and I accept the results...

And she continues to stumble through a mini-promo about how she "was there in Pennsylvania" and has "seen stuff" ... and that was that then. Half-assed "hammering" really, as to be expected.

 

[Chris]

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260178/supreme-court-texas-porn-law

U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to share concerns over the availability of sexually explicit content to minors that can easily be found online, but expressed worry about a Texas law's wider First Amendment implications.

At issue was the Texas law that mandates adult users of pornographic websites verify their ages — using government identification or other personal documentation — before they can access the material. It's a case that's angered free speech advocates, as well as the adult entertainment industry, and, despite controversy, has inspired other states to pass their own versions of the law.

During arguments for Free Speech Coalition et al. v. Paxton, a majority of justices appeared to agree states can require some limitations on what underage kids can be exposed to. However, there were lingering concerns on the wider implications for other First Amendment rights and of the burdens placed on adults to access material that should be protected by the Constitution.

 

[SenseiSilver]

Pam "The Body" Bondi

 

[Boomhauer]

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260178/supreme-court-texas-porn-law

U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to share concerns over the availability of sexually explicit content to minors that can easily be found online, but expressed worry about a Texas law's wider First Amendment implications.

At issue was the Texas law that mandates adult users of pornographic websites verify their ages — using government identification or other personal documentation — before they can access the material. It's a case that's angered free speech advocates, as well as the adult entertainment industry, and, despite controversy, has inspired other states to pass their own versions of the law.

During arguments for Free Speech Coalition et al. v. Paxton, a majority of justices appeared to agree states can require some limitations on what underage kids can be exposed to. However, there were lingering concerns on the wider implications for other First Amendment rights and of the burdens placed on adults to access material that should be protected by the Constitution.

I say that pornography should use an ID for age verification. The adult film industry and free speech advocates shouldn't have a say in the matter. Plus it can crack down on the addiction crisis.

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-cabinet-confirmation-hearings-01-15-25/index.html

President Joe Biden warned against threats of unchecked power and “tech industrial complex” in a farewell address from the Oval Office tonight. He also hailed his administration’s accomplishments. “It will take time to feel the full impact of what we’ve done together,” he said.

 

[Grim]

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-hostages-01-15-24/index.html

Israel and Hamas agree to a deal that will pause fighting in Gaza and lead to the phased release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners, source says

• Implementation is likely to start on Sunday. Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages during the first phase of an emerging deal. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are set to be released from Israeli jails at the same time.

• The release of the hostages would be the first phase of the deal being finalized. Negotiations to reach the second phase – which is intended to end the war – would begin on the 16th day of the implementation of the deal. Here’s what we know about the potential deal.

Well that didn't last long. Netenyahu's cabinet is delaying the vote on it.

Israel's Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza

Israel's cabinet meeting comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said there were last minute snags in finalizing the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

apnews.com

 

[CraigPelton]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-cabinet-confirmation-hearings-01-15-25/index.html

President Joe Biden warned against threats of unchecked power and “tech industrial complex” in a farewell address from the Oval Office tonight. He also hailed his administration’s accomplishments. “It will take time to feel the full impact of what we’ve done together,” he said.

 

[CraigPelton]

Standing with Israel = standing with genocide. Nobody who defended Israel's actions has any excuse. I've already seen many Zionists try to shift the blame to Netanyahu. No. The vast majority of Israeli society supported what they did over the last year+. Anyone who defends Israel is guilty of supporting a genocide. Anyone who says "Israel has a right to defend itself" or "I stand with Israel" is the modern day equivalent to a Nazi sympathizer and should be treated as such.

 

[Comrade Khan]

While I strongly agree with your stance on Israel's action, I do stop at "the vast majority of Israelis support this". Thats the same rhetoric Israel uses to justify bombing innocent Palestinians.

 

[Chris]

Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S., leaving the matter to Trump

In an unsigned opinion, the Court sided with the national security concerns about TikTok rather than the First Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.

www.usatoday.com

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States on Sunday, siding with the government's national security concerns over the First Amendment rights of the company and its 170 million TikTok users.

That decision shifts the focus to whether President-elect Donald Trump can intervene after he takes office on Monday.

Trump, who tried to ban TikTok during his first administration, has since promised to “save” the wildly popular platform, though it's unclear how he could do so.

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/inauguration-moving-indoors-cold-weather/index.html

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will be moved indoors, he announced Friday, due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital.

“I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“We will open Capital One Arena on Monday for LIVE viewing of this Historic event, and to host the Presidential Parade. I will join the crowd at Capital One, after my Swearing In,” Trump added.

 

[OsBlaze]

Trump: No one wants to see flag at half staff, so let’s raise it.

Also Trump: It’s to cold, let’s go inside so the flag that would have been half staff(if they didn’t raise for the cry baby) isn’t seen anyway.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Bitch wear a fucking coat you vagina

 

[Samoa Looch]

It's INAUGURATIONMANIA from the Capital One Arena next Monday only on PAYYY-PER-VIEWWWW

*rips shirt and flexes*