President Biden delivers remarks on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal (aka BIF)
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President Biden delivers remarks on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal (aka BIF)
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Baud
Go Joe!
WaterGirl
@Baud: Joe’s not giving up, we shouldn’t either. I’ve got his back.
laura
I sure hope his remarks include sitting on the BIF until he can sign the BBB at the same time.
Baud
@laura:
Doubt it. I don’t think the timing works out.
WaterGirl
It’s starting!
Talking about Build Back Better.
WaterGirl
“Let’s keep the hope moving.”
WaterGirl
“Infrastructure week has finally arrived!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl: you know trump is watching, and saw Biden laughing at him
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I feel like there will be no more chaos now.
germy
Biden’s the most pro-labor president I’ve ever seen.
Pro-labor and pro-union.
WaterGirl
Did he say 99 BILLION dollars lost from storms, etc?
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
For a hopeful second there, I was thinking you were referring to Mrs. McConnell. No more Chaos.
WaterGirl
@germy: Unapologetically pro-union. Blue collar roots.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
He’s doing a good, if fairly basic, explanation of supply chain issues — causes and consequences.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: He doesn’t speechify, he just talks to us.
sab
@WaterGirl: That’s how I see it.
trollhattan
Open thread privilege invoked: Tonya Harding for the new century? Experts say “could be.”
As you were.
Poe Larity
Can we get him to tell Cole that now Nutella causes cancer, because I don’t want to be that guy.
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: What the fuck is wrong with these people???
So
he>SHE got to play in the match the next day and THEN they arrestedhimHER?WaterGirl
@Poe Larity:
What does that mean? Is that really a thing?
UncleEbeneezer
I was just listening to Scott Dworkin on the SwingLeft How We Win podcast who noted that the speed and scope of this victory (BIF) is unprecedented. Ten months is NOTHING for a major, bi-partisan piece of legislation in an extremely polarized environment with a 50-50 Senate. It’s a really amazing feat.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl: she/her. It’s the women’s team.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, I caught that when I started reading, and somehow my brain still turned it into a guy.
Steeplejack (phone)
@WaterGirl:
They’re women soccer players. And Diallo apparently was not involved directly in the attack but is being investigated for “orchestrating” it.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: Completely understand that the gender of Aminata and Kheria might not be obvious. (End with an O for guys? shrug)
Anyhoo, PSG is one of the world’s top women’s pro clubs and France is FIFA world’s #5, so these players are somewhere between star and superstar and there’s a LOT at $take with the starting job.
At first glance it looks like a literal hired kneecapping gone wrong, which is so on the nose after Harding-Kerrigan the scriptwriters should be sent to their rooms.
Mike in NC
@trollhattan: “I, Tonya” is a movie we never get tired of.
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: How does it appear that it’s hired kneecapping gone wrong? Is that from the perspective of the HIRE-er? Because it’s not permanent? Or gone wrong because they are able to track it back to her?
Poe Larity
@WaterGirl: Palm Oil fatty acid is killing the mice:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04075-0#
Other MJS
And it’s a BFD!
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne: Good one!
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Both IMHO. Otherwise what good would it do to just scare her? Soccer players have worse happen to them on the pitch.
If Diallo in fact orchestrated it (and is sure looks bad, since she literally was the driver) she did not Think. It. Through.
Uncle Cosmo
@Poe Larity: “Tumors from mice that were fed a short-term palm-oil-rich diet (PA)…”
Why does this remind me of the studies from a couple of generations back that loudly proclaimed saccharin was bad for you – by feeding test animals doses hundreds of times larger than any normal human would ingest?
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: Serious jail time for whoever ordered that. Or who “coyly suggested” that something like that would be helpful.
Someone like that should be banned from all sports. Permanently. Along with the jail time.