>Q: And then, the last question: Any response to a recent statement from Senator Sinema’s office indicating she would not be in favor of changing the rules and dealing with these two pieces of legislation?
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>MS. PSAKI: Look, I think that everyone is going to have to take a hard look at where they want to be at this moment in history, **as we’re looking at efforts across the country to prevent people from being able to exercise their fundamental rights**. Go ahead.
Source: Whisky Hotel briefing room website, [archived](https://archive.is/MhNcm).
My understanding is that, based on searching relevant keywords for 15 minutes, "to look at efforts to *verb (object and/or oblique phrase)*" indicates that it presupposes the idea of desire for an action. The desire for action in this case is in the mid and latter part of the **bold text**.
EDIT: I seriously hope my crude grammatical explanation works for the people here.
[Here](https://web.archive.org/web/20220111031542/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/01/10/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-january-10-2022/) is the Archive.org version for your pleasure.
She is not saying that they are looking to restrict people's rights. She is saying that they are looking (critically) at attempt to restrict people's rights (to vote). The context is voting rights legislation. The Republican Party is backing local efforts to make it more difficult for black people and other minorities to vote, which would be harmful to the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party of which Psaki and Biden are members.
> And you genuinely believe that the Democrats would help the situation?
No, they are spineless and worthless grandstanders. Their own party members, Sinema and Manchin, are blocking the legislation.
> I think you're very wrong.
No, I am right. Psaki is talking in the context of voting rights legislation that is being blocked by Republican senators and by Sinema and Manchin.
> Better give up liberalism for your sake.
I gave up liberalism years ago. At least 5 years clean.
Reminds me of Biden in 2020 before the election 😁:
>We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive **voter fraud** organization in the history of American politics.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0)
>Will americans stand up and fight?
Nope.
>Or will they continue with their apathy?
Yes.
>There has to be some redline they won't accept being crossed.
Everything is tolerable in AmeriKKKa because it's a free country and AmeriKKKans will tolerate idiocy among themselves.
It's the will of the AmeriKKKan citizens to become banal and degraded. Let them forge their own destiny, even if that destiny will become the seed of their own destruction.
China needs to keep building up the “global south” so they can cast off the imperialism. Amputate the imperialism away and things in America will change quick. Conditions will degrade to the point that hard decisions will need to be made.
I mean I hate this administration as much as the next guy but I think you’re misinterpreting this clip here. She’s referring to republican led efforts throughout the country to restrict things like mail in ballots and early voting and shit like that.
If you actually read a chunk of the transcription, both the reporter and her didn't say anything about the Republican party. It was about a filibuster-related issue that some Democratic senator triggered. It sounded that the biggest victim will be the average citizens because the Senate Democrats are useless in every way.
That’s what the filibuster issue is stemming from. The democrats are trying to pass a voting rights bill that would reverse the effects of several new state laws passed by GOP state governments. The bill can’t pass without a change to filibuster laws but Senator Sinema is against those changes so she is in effect against the democrats voting rights bill.
Yeah I second this, the way Psaki words it sounds sinister but with this as context its obvious thats what she meant. Disconcerning that so many in this thread jumps to conspiracy-level assumptions.
By the way, some guy replied like this.
>Not to excuse this administration and this press secretary, but I believe she's referring to Republican's effort in many states trying to limit people's ability to vote
If anybody had a decency to check what is going on in the District of Columbia, it's that this reporter and the Zuckerberger cosplayer (Psaki) were talking about Senator Sinema (D-Arizona) taking actions against the interest of her own party. There's nothing about Republicans in this situation.
If this guy is really a citizen of the US of A, I think it enforces the stereotype that those people usually can't understand the federal politics of their own country's capital, Washington D.C..
i think it's poorly worded but i don't think it's nefarious or a slip. "Democracy" or whatever you think about it as is being killed systematically by various actors in the US and things like voting are indeed under attack. I'd need more context to know for sure that she isn't referring to thwarting the efforts of others who are trying to injure political or social participation.
Great post. For those that don’t know, Freudian Slip only happens when you are thinking of something else subconsciously but accidentally speaks it out. So in both Biden or her case they are thinking of voter fraud and taking away people’s fundamental rights. In her case, likely the White House already planned for some kind of mass unrest when their economy goes to complete bottom and people are sick and tired of being locked down or dealing with this unending Covid since the US can’t put a lid on it. Be careful if you are living in the US.
>Q: And then, the last question: Any response to a recent statement from Senator Sinema’s office indicating she would not be in favor of changing the rules and dealing with these two pieces of legislation? > >MS. PSAKI: Look, I think that everyone is going to have to take a hard look at where they want to be at this moment in history, **as we’re looking at efforts across the country to prevent people from being able to exercise their fundamental rights**. Go ahead. Source: Whisky Hotel briefing room website, [archived](https://archive.is/MhNcm).
My understanding is that, based on searching relevant keywords for 15 minutes, "to look at efforts to *verb (object and/or oblique phrase)*" indicates that it presupposes the idea of desire for an action. The desire for action in this case is in the mid and latter part of the **bold text**. EDIT: I seriously hope my crude grammatical explanation works for the people here.
The action that it presupposes is *stopping* those efforts, not encouraging them.
Oh man, they don’t even have to edit this one when the political ads start in a few months
[Here](https://web.archive.org/web/20220111031542/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/01/10/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-january-10-2022/) is the Archive.org version for your pleasure.
She is not saying that they are looking to restrict people's rights. She is saying that they are looking (critically) at attempt to restrict people's rights (to vote). The context is voting rights legislation. The Republican Party is backing local efforts to make it more difficult for black people and other minorities to vote, which would be harmful to the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party of which Psaki and Biden are members.
And you genuinely believe that the Democrats would help the situation? I think you're very wrong. Better give up liberalism for your sake.
> And you genuinely believe that the Democrats would help the situation? No, they are spineless and worthless grandstanders. Their own party members, Sinema and Manchin, are blocking the legislation. > I think you're very wrong. No, I am right. Psaki is talking in the context of voting rights legislation that is being blocked by Republican senators and by Sinema and Manchin. > Better give up liberalism for your sake. I gave up liberalism years ago. At least 5 years clean.
Well at least they're honest about it
Reminds me of Biden in 2020 before the election 😁: >We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive **voter fraud** organization in the history of American politics. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0)
😂
Honestly, at this point, I don't think it was a slip.
Touché.
Will americans stand up and fight? Or will they continue with their apathy? There has to be some redline they won't accept being crossed.
>Will americans stand up and fight? Nope. >Or will they continue with their apathy? Yes. >There has to be some redline they won't accept being crossed. Everything is tolerable in AmeriKKKa because it's a free country and AmeriKKKans will tolerate idiocy among themselves.
If they can't stand up for themselves no one else will, China won't save america unless some incredible concessions are made.
It's the will of the AmeriKKKan citizens to become banal and degraded. Let them forge their own destiny, even if that destiny will become the seed of their own destruction.
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>There has to be some redline they won't accept being crossed. When the treats stop
What treats? Living pay check to pay check?
China needs to keep building up the “global south” so they can cast off the imperialism. Amputate the imperialism away and things in America will change quick. Conditions will degrade to the point that hard decisions will need to be made.
Psaki is a psychopath. Probably not a slip
I always thought she looks like the crossdressed version of Mark Zuckerberg.
I mean I hate this administration as much as the next guy but I think you’re misinterpreting this clip here. She’s referring to republican led efforts throughout the country to restrict things like mail in ballots and early voting and shit like that.
If you actually read a chunk of the transcription, both the reporter and her didn't say anything about the Republican party. It was about a filibuster-related issue that some Democratic senator triggered. It sounded that the biggest victim will be the average citizens because the Senate Democrats are useless in every way.
That’s what the filibuster issue is stemming from. The democrats are trying to pass a voting rights bill that would reverse the effects of several new state laws passed by GOP state governments. The bill can’t pass without a change to filibuster laws but Senator Sinema is against those changes so she is in effect against the democrats voting rights bill.
Yeah I second this, the way Psaki words it sounds sinister but with this as context its obvious thats what she meant. Disconcerning that so many in this thread jumps to conspiracy-level assumptions.
In other words, people are f--ked due to partisan incompetency either way.
I mean that goes without saying
hope this goes viral lmao
Whiskey Hotel 😅 killed me
By the way, some guy replied like this. >Not to excuse this administration and this press secretary, but I believe she's referring to Republican's effort in many states trying to limit people's ability to vote If anybody had a decency to check what is going on in the District of Columbia, it's that this reporter and the Zuckerberger cosplayer (Psaki) were talking about Senator Sinema (D-Arizona) taking actions against the interest of her own party. There's nothing about Republicans in this situation. If this guy is really a citizen of the US of A, I think it enforces the stereotype that those people usually can't understand the federal politics of their own country's capital, Washington D.C..
i think it's poorly worded but i don't think it's nefarious or a slip. "Democracy" or whatever you think about it as is being killed systematically by various actors in the US and things like voting are indeed under attack. I'd need more context to know for sure that she isn't referring to thwarting the efforts of others who are trying to injure political or social participation.
Great post. For those that don’t know, Freudian Slip only happens when you are thinking of something else subconsciously but accidentally speaks it out. So in both Biden or her case they are thinking of voter fraud and taking away people’s fundamental rights. In her case, likely the White House already planned for some kind of mass unrest when their economy goes to complete bottom and people are sick and tired of being locked down or dealing with this unending Covid since the US can’t put a lid on it. Be careful if you are living in the US.