Noteworthy News

[Rev. Rye]

A bridge we will cross when we come to it, Biker.


More interesting is the confirmation hearings over Biden’s Treasury pick Saule Omarova.




It’s worth noting that membership in the Komsomol (the organization she mentioned she belonged to) expires after the member in question reaches the age of 28, and that, more importantly, hasn’t existed in over 30 fucking years. And, of course, the Senator grilling her doesn’t even listen to this explanation and keeps asking for a resignation letter to an organization that she would have aged out of if it (along with the rest of the USSR) hadn’t collapsed anyway before she had a chance to. And, depressingly, many of the top comments in the video side with the idiot senator.

And hearing this revival of the Red Scare and talks of loyalty reminds me of a film I remember seeing donkeys ago that I can’t even remember the name of. A man is being grilled to sign a loyalty oath to the US Government and is told that if he refuses to sign, it’s a sign he might be a Communist or a fellow traveler, and he responds by asking “If I were a Communist infiltrator confronted with this loyalty oath, do you seriously think that I’d hesitate for a second to sign it?” I wish I knew what it was.

And the underlying premise implicit in this is one of the more insidious problems (or at least was Pre-Trump) with the American political system: the assumption that it’s bad for a politician to change his policies. That it’s better for a politician to keep spamming the same failed political program over and over than it is to admit they were wrong and try to rectify that.

Also, I love that in that same meeting they try and cherry-pick some "scary" out-of-context quotes from her to try and paint her as a communist when all they actually manage to do is expose themselves as ignorant partisan hacks.

Which, sadly, may not be much of a problem to them, since it's pretty much their job.