#poilitics

[commonsensecommentary]

“It appears that demanding Americans shut up and submit only makes them angry, and the result has been an ugly punch in the face for Liberals who thought grinding our nation under their heel was a winning strategy.”

Why Liberals Lost America

One could write a book (or several dozen) when attempting to define what Liberalism means in America today. However, for the sake of brevity

[spideyyeet]

[cuntyqueerleondraisaitl]

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What will be #1 on Trending November 5th, 2024?

Destiel

Something US election-related

Secret third option (Wrong) (Put it in the tags)

Voting ended onNov 6, 2023

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Never write a letter to your mistress and never join the Carlton Club.

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Despite its having Wellington’s characteristic terseness and, as regards the first bit, good sense, it feels an odd thing to say. Wellington was after all the Carlton’s founding father and, although he played no large part in its affairs, he must have observed its political success with considerable satisfaction. Perhaps, like many phrases supposedly uttered by famous people, it was attributed to him, but actually coined by someone else.

It would be hard to overestimate the importance of the establishment of the Carlton Club in the history of British party politics. At the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, there were in existence two great clubs, Brooks’s and White’s, linked to the historic Whig  and Tory Parties respectively. But by the 1830s, the two political parties needed far more than their long-standing London bastions could supply. They simply were not large enough. Some MPs had begun to resort to non-political clubs, like Boodle’s in St James’s Street, giving rise to the following merry ditty: ‘In Parliament I fill my seat/With many other noodles/And lay my head in Jermyn Street/And sip my hock at Boodle’s’.

Such exile from the political mainstream soon became unnecessary. Politics entered a new era, in which the two parties, which evolved in the 1830s and the two subsequent decades - acquiring new names, Conservative and Liberal- expanded their political activities greatly. They needed London accommodation on a generous scale in premises which provided a variety of rooms, large and small.

That is what the Carlton Club supplied. In 1837, the year of Queen Victoria’s accession, it opened its first club house in Pall Mall on the corner of Carlton Gardens, yet another reminder of the gross, bloated monarch, George IV (114 years later a slim Miss Margaret Roberts would depart from the next door house in Carlton Gardens en route to her marriage to Mr Denis Thatcher).

The Carlton club remained on its Pall Mall corner site until a Nazi bomb fell on it in October 1940. The original club house underestimated the party’s need for space. It was enlarged in the 1840s as Sir Robert Peel brought the party first to election triumph in 1841, and then to political disaster and division as a result of the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. To assist the Conservative party’s recovery from the split that the Corn Laws’ repeal brought about, the enlarged building was demolished and replaced by an even bigger one in 1856.

Members stared from the Carlton club’s windows across Carlton Gardens at the Reform club, founded in 1836, four years after the Carlton, to equip the Tories’ opponents with the same range of services, social and political, that the Carlton pioneered. It should be noted in passing that in the new nineteenth-century political world the Conservatives put themselves at the forefront of organisational change, where they were to remain until Tony Blair’s day.

The close proximity of the two rival clubs meant that they kept each other under close observation. In the early days, the Reform took a great interest in the volume of mail posted by servants of the Carlton, who retaliated by waiting until darkness fell before venturing forth. During a political crisis in 1884, blinds were pulled down at every window of the Carlton club’s library after a member noticed two figures across the road in the Reform club spying with the aid of opera glasses. Members of the Carlton noted with satisfaction that their club eclipsed the Reform in size and grandeur.

But that’s a matter of griping. Or is that groping?

In 2022, the disgraced Conservative MP Christopher Pincher was alleged to have sexually groped two men, in an area known as Cads’ Corner within the Carlton. Former No 10 strategist Dominic Cummings once claimed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson referred to the now disgraced MP as “Pincher by name, pincher by nature” before making him deputy chief whip, which he subsequently had taken away from him.

The club boasts about this ‘inviting corner’ that features a small cluster of chairs underneath a grand staircase - but talk to my father’s peers and friends who are members about how Cads’ Corner gained its name and they get all coy and look at their watches. Indeed it’s well known that it’s the spot where male members could stand to stare up the skirts of female guests walking up and down the stairs.

As a member of the Reform club naturally I think they’ve got their head up their arse or at the very least looking up at some unlucky lady’s skirt.

[himitsusentaiblog]

Ted Cruz confirmed as a member of Zangyack?

[kereeachan]

So. Found out why Trump signed the omnibus and why he’s been tweeting about “changes” to it.

His aides lied to him and told him he has a line veto power he does not have, because the Supreme Court struck down said power in 1998, Clinton v. City of New York. “In a 6-to-3 decision the Court first established that both the City of New York, and its affiliates, and the farmers' cooperative suffered sufficiently immediate and concrete injuries to sustain their standing to challenge the President's actions. The Court then explained that under the Presentment Clause, legislation that passes both Houses of Congress must either be entirely approved (i.e. signed) or rejected (i.e. vetoed) by the President. The Court held that by canceling only selected portions of the bills at issue, under authority granted him by the Act, the President in effect "amended" the laws before him. Such discretion, the Court concluded, violated the "finely wrought" legislative procedures of Article I as envisioned by the Framers.”

He thinks he has this due to 1974′s Impoundment Control Act, which is an act that reasserted Congress’ power of the purse and specifically prevents the president from substituting their own funding decisions over congress’. It was passed due to Nixon’s executive overreach. If he wants to rescind specific funds in the Omnibus/COVID bill, he needs to get congress’ permission first. Which is the opposite of what he thinks is happening and also not something they’re liable to budge on given he already signed it.

Edit: I am also very, very amused that it is Bill Clinton’s overreach/fault that means Trump does not have this power. Clintons just keep on vexing him, huh?

[bloodymary229]

It pisses me off that within the last 15 years, Trump has only paid $750 in income tax while many people bust their asses and still live paycheck to paycheck.

And if you're not already mad, just so you know, every former President of the United States of America is guaranteed a pension of about $200,000 AFTER they leave office.

This motherfucker will be taking from us even after he's gone.

[mathgirl24]

When did Biden say he’d defund the police??  He has always stated he would NOT do that.  He’s going to take away your guns?  I don’t recall that bit either.

Eric Trump: