Isaac Pigott (politics)

Hey everyone — this Isaac’s politics account. So if you’re just looking for my partisan ranting and analysis, I’ll be here. (That way you won’t have to sift through my @sports.ikepigott.com @culture.ikepigott.com @wrestling.ikepigott.com or @bama.ikepigott.com stuff.)

T-shirt slogan, anyone?

Telling my young self in 1988 that the last bastions of journalism would be Rolling Stone and Teen Vogue.

This is one of the most petty Executive Orders I’ve seen. It amounts to “this firm said bad things about me, so imma call them Woke and threaten anyone who does business with them.” It’s just dripping with orange grievance juice.

The nice thing about those Handmaid’s Tale hoods is they discreetly cover up the evidence that the leopards have eaten her face.

This is really unfair. If the U.S. government has indeed paid for gender-affirming care for all of these people, it needs to compensate the rest of us by an equal amount. We should demand it (and make them admit that they haven’t really been paying for it.)

Firing a four-star general who is black, and replacing him with a white three-star general because you want a “Warrior Mindset.” Sounds like another way of saying “no one is more qualified to wreak blatant violent aggression like white men.”

This is what I’ve been mentioning too — that they don’t want DEI out of government… they want to make it illegal anywhere. They started a year ago rattling corporate cages, threatening shareholder campaigns to “get rid of the wasteful spending.”

If there is another journalist beyond Marisa for this time, I couldn't name them.

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They are paranoid. If only there were a way to weaponize that… I don’t suppose people might share ideas in this thread…

Well, CRAP. We just did the random draw for the “When is Fox and Friends going to suggest that Cowboy Carter got a DEI Grammy?” pool, and I got 9:25 am. Kilmeade can’t make it that long!

Message to the whole #FBI workforce from Acting Director Brian Driscoll:

Gosh — what could possibly go wrong with having official government dicta running through a privately-held network where the world’s wealthiest grifter has a universal edit button?

Here’s something for the old-school PR people. The Hare Krishna offshoot that Tulsi Gabbard used to be affiliated with has hired an image shop. Ronn Torossian. Color me shocked. 🙄 @peterhimler.bsky.social @jspepper.bsky.social @whatsnext.bsky.social

Canadian friends, please help us understand: what percentage of Canadian voters are laughing at the idea of becoming the 51st US state? What percentage are also offended that they are only being offered as a single state in this hypothetical?

He’s not just going after DEI in the government — his “brain trust” wants to root it out everywhere.

Something tells me this isn’t about any profanity.

Among the dumbest parts of all of this is that we are going to a ridiculously mammoth expense toward activities that will make us all poorer, not a bit safer, *and* more evil.

I don’t know that I recognize this place anymore.

It feels like there was an easy follow up question here: “What if a 79-year-old man found himself incapacitated? Someone else might be providing you with orders.”

I am still in the middle of my one-month Facebook hiatus. Now in week 100.

Via @alander.bsky.social: Plaintiffs and their attorneys allege that SB 129, which bans public funding of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and teaching so-called "divisive concepts," has led to censorship, limited educational access and viewpoint suppression.

Insane.

@o7rise.bsky.social Hey, you have my main account on some MAGA block list. I am far from MAGA. Please remove me. Thanks.

“More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers.” Who does he think is doing the sleepovers? When is the tutoring taking place? “More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons.” How many kids can’t afford to go to those? And WHAT cartoons???

Justice to supposed to be blind — but in Alabama it’s deaf and dumb (and dumb.)

I made this the other day. Should I make more? What would you want me to talk about?

Can we pay extra to banish Vance to the kids’ table?

It’s laughable, until you consider he’s buddy-buddy with the man he’s installing as an autocrat, who already has an enemies list.

“Standing with?” Or “in the room when it happened?”

By definition, Mike Johnson can’t even read that report on his phone or his kid will snitch on him to the church.

Where is the lie?

The House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz is everything Republicans dreamed Hunter Biden’s laptop would be.

I’m surprised he hasn’t already suffered a tragic yet highly preventable freak wheelchair accident. Involving a hot tub and a toaster.

“Customer Appreciation Week.”

How to lose an entire legislative body thanks to this one neat trick

Does anyone remember the name of the political intrigue show where the president nominated a bunch of people for ambassadorships — all of whom potentially had dirt on him? And once overseas they started suffering horrible “accidents”?

House Appropriations used to be important back in the day. Congress abdicated all of that with continuing resolutions and rollover funding. It’s been this way ever since congressional campaigns stretched to two years, so there is no downtime to get things done.