Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

there

hey everybody what's happening?

People On Both Sides

DJP, I'm feeling canceled.

so is Trump!

good morning y'all

Wait, what?

RIP Trump, good mourning.

schrodingers thread

great revive

already anticipating january pt. 3

weekly in 21

Hoping that it ain't gonna be a standing thing throughout the year. Would be nice if public figures ceased to be quitie so attention seeking.
Would be nice to go through a period where there wasn't constant news or whatver passes for it. People believing the fake stuff leading to bad real stuff.

Would be so nice to not always be edging closer to the next great calamity.
Are things going o become peaceful any time soon?

I'd like to get back to complaining about local politics

i'm afraid the internet has shrunk entire nations to "local"

It's either Trump (here) or covid (everywhere).

Trump also everywhere, alas.

meanwhile, the president of the united states stands impeached so that means there's a comic about it

https://www.insider.com/trump-impeachment-graphic-feature-comic-2020-2/fb%20ref=alskdhd385ke-hi-sic-39501=url

Looking forward to the 20th so that we can have 100 posts a month on these threads

I'm willing to do my bit and not post on here at all

I mean except that one

and that one

trump more like dump

Yeah, I'm stepping away from these threads to for a bit, I think. I really hit a wall yesterday wrt feeling despair and hopelessness about a lot of things, so probably not the best for me to be glooming things up.

2scoops went from 1term to 2peach. on the seventh day we can rest. good work all around everyone

Shouldve been called "least promising sequel of 2020" tbh

Looking forward to the 20th so that we can have 100 posts a month on these threads

idk im sure Biden will do enough stupid shit to talk about

Next thread should def be titled 'Trump Withdrawal Syndrome'.

we'll still get regular updates on how further isolated he is becoming, I'm sure.

why, we can barely hear him from all the way over there

idk im sure Biden will do enough stupid shit to talk about

I don't think I'm gonna have a whole lot of time for ILX's leftier-than-thou stridency caucus after the 20th, honestly.

Shouldn’t you have more time

too busy with brunch babey

Man i sure miss brunch

Let us not speak of such things.

Mr. Hawley denounced Pelagius for teaching that human beings have the freedom to choose how they live their lives and that grace comes to those who do good things, as opposed to those who believe the right doctrines.

apologies if this has been shared already but this^ on Hawley and Christian nationalism

https://nyti.ms/3sb5dHv

I am currently reading about the early church and I would never have thought that any of the nitpicky internecine squabbles from that era would actually have much of an impact on the thinking of Christians in the goddamn 21st Century.

Was watching Bunuel's "The Milky Way" recently so I hear ya.

meanwhile, the president of the united states stands impeached so that means there's a comic about it

https://www.insider.com/trump-impeachment-graphic-feature-comic-2020-2/fb%20ref=alskdhd385ke-hi-sic-39501=url

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:29 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago)

Looking forward to the 20th so that we can have 100 posts a month on these threads

― xyzzzz__

i expect something much lower volume than trump, but higher than obama years. there's a lot of awful shit going on, everywhere, much of it confusing, that's worth discussion. what i expect to go away is the neverending onslaught of daily "covfefe" kind of shit

Posted this on the previous thread but ILX.usa was still asleep - Biden impeachment articles to be submitted the day after he's inaugurated (in an attempt to further unite the country, I suppose?) :

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-trump-impeachment-marjorie-taylor-greene-b1787055.html

the attempt by one or two individuals to introduce articles of impeachment for nonsense shit isn't new or novel. Obama was actually the first President since Carter who didn't have any articles of impeachment referred against him to House Judiciary Committee.

i will impeach them all citizens impeachment

if/when Republicans get the House back, sure there's a chance they'll do a retaliation dance, but until then I ain't paying no mind

xpost

moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of impeachment

Impeach them all, no mercy shown
Heaven knows it's got to be this time

Impeach the world, don't ask me for shit

Posted this on the previous thread but ILX.usa was still asleep - Biden impeachment articles to be submitted the day after he's inaugurated (in an attempt to further unite the country, I suppose?) :

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-trump-impeachment-marjorie-taylor-greene-b1787055.html

there's a couple new bonkers names that non-US ilxors may soon come to know:

boebart
marjorie taylor green

they're both fucking bonkers, Qanon people who got elected, and they will likely be trying to get in the news as much as possible (a la trump) until they are evicted from their positions in congress by one method or another. then they're going to newsmax

lol fuck these people

these fucking PEOPLE https://t.co/aXYUyOXcRt pic.twitter.com/R9NcFf3yOv

— taber טבור (@taber) January 14, 2021

jfc

incredible

Wtf are they eating that they need a toilet fortress

Fresh babbies.

When you are in a position such that you require 'round-the-clock protectors, it's probably best to go out of your way to erode the goodwill of your would-be protectors.

Oh, you got shot? Sorry, I had to take a shit. Whoopsy!

Tbf, when your dad is Donald Trump you're probably going to be pretty cautious about who you let use your toilets.

Touché

On Wednesday, 31 members of Congress sent a letter to the acting House Sergeant of Arms, acting Senate Sergeant of Arms and Acting Chief of the US Capitol Police asking them to investigate the issue of tours further.
Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, one of the co-signers of the letter, confirmed to CNN that she saw groups of tours of people in MAGA apparel one or two days before the attack.
"I had seen what appeared to be tour groups of folks dressed in MAGA attire, in the halls, in the tunnels," Scanlon told CNN.
"I don't know exactly what day it was. It was just surprising to see that happen because since Covid the building's been shut down. There aren't supposed to be any tours. So I kind of assumed it must be a new member who didn't know the rules or something. But, I mean, I can verify that it happened. There were people who were roaming around in the halls, apparently under the guidance of congressional staff."
Scanlon told CNN she saw a group of 6 to 8 people.
"Many of the Members who signed this letter, including those of us who have served in the military and are trained to recognize suspicious activity, as well as various members of our staff, witnessed an extremely high number of outside groups in the complex on Tuesday, January 5," the letter states.
It says the tours were "unusual" and "concerning" and were reported to the Sergeant at Arms on January 5. The letter says the groups "could only have gained access to the Capitol Complex from a Member of Congress or a member of their staff."
Also: more about insider help: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/capitol-insurrection-insider-help/index.html

Golden toilets are not for Commoners, and never will be.

https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokbrownchick/video/6916548081022422278

impressive display of scraping prowess

https://t.co/4QcGlttRxz

— crash override (@donk_enby) January 13, 2021

thank u based donk_enby

'White House advisor Peter Navarro leaves the West Wing of the White House with a photograph of U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2021.'

📷 by @erinscottphoto pic.twitter.com/0KtzMgvrCF

— Michael B. Kelley (@MichaelBKelley) January 14, 2021

Parler's cardinal security sin is known as an insecure direct object reference, says Kenneth White, codirector of the Open Crypto Audit Project, who looked at the code of the download tool @donk_enby posted online. An IDOR occurs when a hacker can simply guess the pattern an application uses to refer to its stored data. In this case, the posts on Parler were simply listed in chronological order: Increase a value in a Parler post url by one, and you'd get the next post that appeared on the site. Parler also doesn't require authentication to view public posts and doesn't use any sort of "rate limiting" that would cut off anyone accessing too many posts too quickly. Together with the IDOR issue, that meant that any hacker could write a simple script to reach out to Parler's web server and enumerate and download every message, photo, and video in the order they were posted.

https://t.co/qgGy7f3kVh

— crash override (@donk_enby) January 13, 2021

Xxpost They'll be stealing all the furniture, silverware, etc.. anything that's not bolted down.

Increase a value in a Parler post url by one, and you'd get the next post that appeared on the site.

this is how i found the hidden ilx boards lol

crut hacking thought leader

does that indicate hacker probably not the first to hack the site?
Guess that makes little difference if nobody else tried to do anything with info found.

i mean they werent really hacked as far as having their security compromised, their public data was just downloaded, but they were hacked in the sense of someone used their systems in a way they didnt design them for

if someone had done this one weird trick before id think we would have heard about it, tho who knows there could be someone out there sitting on a big pile of parler posts

the worst thing parler did was post images with all the metadata still on there, which is an actual security issue in that their users were effectively sharing their locations without intending to, the rest of it is like yeah you let yr site get scraped too easily but it was all public and prob couldve been scraped anyway with a lil more effort and time

Fascistnating

lmao jim jordan lost 7% of his followers in the twitter purge

GOP officials lost thousands of followers after Twitter banned QAnon accounts. @angelareplica figured out which ones lost the most: https://t.co/PE1gnywvVL

— Keenan (@jktrotter) January 14, 2021

SevenPercentSolution.jpg
#TwoThreads

the worst thing parler did was post images with all the metadata still on there, which is an actual security issue in that their users were effectively sharing their locations without intending to, the rest of it is like yeah you let yr site get scraped too easily but it was all public and prob couldve been scraped anyway with a lil more effort and time

I saw some MAGA lady on FB talking about how with Parler's soon-to-be-glorious-victory over Amazon in court, now is a great time to buy shares of Parler. (Of course you can't actually do that becz it's not a public company, but we can dream.)

Ronan Farrow with an Oath Keeper interview. It doesn't go well for said dude:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-former-marine-stormed-the-capitol-as-part-of-a-far-right-militia

In an eighty-minute interview, during which Crowl acknowledged that he was drinking, he confirmed to me that he had entered the Capitol, saying that he had gone to Washington to “do security” for “V.I.P.s” whom he declined to name. He said that his intentions had been peaceful and that he had never been violent, claiming “we protected the fucking Capitol Hill police.” He declined to substantiate the claim.

ok so he stormed the Capitol because he had t pee

*to pee

He repeatedly denied that he harbored racist views or had made racist comments, but he said that he believed in phrenology, the discredited pseudoscience that infers intellectual ability from skull shape, and told me that he had responded to The New Yorker’s request for comment after examining pictures of my head.

To be fair, the Farrows have have shapely skulls.

xpost "Anyone ever tell you that you ssortta ressemble Frank SSsinatra?"

With DC and 50 statehouses to choose from, it's hard to imagine that Maganauts won't participate in further violent insurrectionist activity before Biden has even been sworn in. Trump started signalling his intentions to hang onto power whatever the election results at least a month before Nov. 3.

I don't discount the likelihood of more violence, but I do think — hope — that these demonstrations are going to be mostly notable for being small and pathetic looking. I'm sure they can pull together a few hundred people here and there, but I don't think it's going to be some militia army emerging from deep cover.

In 2016 he said he'd "totally accept election results…if I win". Lol oh that wacky Donnie what a card.

I do think they overplayed their hand with the Capitol storming... kinda like the "blood & soil" march in Virginia. Many will probably lay low for awhile, afraid to lose their jobs, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NYFq7ZJg4c

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/20/498713509/donald-trump-says-hell-accept-the-results-of-the-election-if-he-wins

Still barred from twitter, Trump releases a statement on Afghanistan that’s more like a tweet. pic.twitter.com/6w6C60OmhJ

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 14, 2021

love always finds a way

"For weeks, Trump has been claiming the race is rigged in Hillary Clinton's favor, in part because of deceased individuals and immigrants in the country illegally casting votes and election officials throughout the country colluding against Trump."

At least then he woulda had no federal resources to abuse

He thinks in tweet length now, clearly.

never thought in anything else. It's why he's such a natural at it.

All new White House press releases to include the words "haters" and "beautiful"

_He repeatedly denied that he harbored racist views or had made racist comments, but he said that he believed in phrenology, the discredited pseudoscience that infers intellectual ability from skull shape, and told me that he had responded to The New Yorker’s request for comment after examining pictures of my head. _

One time a friend made fun of my foreign language jones and said "James Redd knows lots of languages but it only comes out in Trump-like tweets."

He thinks in tweet length now, clearly.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:15 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is the worst thing about being a twitter user.

Caek lemme explain why you're wrong…
THREAD (1/73)

Huh.

Late to this but ... Fall Out Boy is playing the Biden inaugural concert? pic.twitter.com/q4avuVZfOy

— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) January 14, 2021

"You see, Mr. President, when I said it was an arms race..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOi1E6dUV30

Carol King AND James Taylor?? Boomers rejoice

This Capital Coup affidavit doc is incredible and worth a read:

https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Kevin%20Lyons%20Affidavit%20in%20Support%20of%20Criminal%20Complaint.pdf

Start at point 11, maybe.

Still barred from twitter, Trump releases a statement on Afghanistan that’s more like a tweet.

smh i suggested this as soon as he was banned no one listens

he should just send out a series of tweet length press releases

— br◎seph (@on3ness) January 9, 2021

Hello Nice FBI Lady

With DC and 50 statehouses to choose from, it's hard to imagine that Maganauts won't participate in further violent insurrectionist activity before Biden has even been sworn in. Trump started signalling his intentions to hang onto power whatever the election results at least a month before Nov. 3.

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, January 14, 2021 1:01 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't discount the likelihood of more violence, but I do think — hope — that these demonstrations are going to be mostly notable for being small and pathetic looking. I'm sure they can pull together a few hundred people here and there, but I don't think it's going to be some militia army emerging from deep cover.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra),

i hope tipsy's right here. i did see that one of the proud boy leaders is urging everyone to stay home and telling them that it's a "honeypot" designed to entrap them all. whatever, but please stay the fuck home proud boys

It's a small side effect in comparison to all the grotesqueries and preening from GOP types in particular, but there is something telling that a bunch of people who thought they could get away with it -- whatever 'it' was -- found themselves humiliated on the broadest of scales, and clearly had no sense as to how or why they would be.

Start at point 11, maybe.

loool

there is something telling

It tells me they have lived in a bubble of shared delusions large enough to look like the center of political gravity to them. This was not helped by the fact that the president and nearly all Republican office holders in the nation encouraged their delusions even when they knew the president's claims were complete fabrications.

Fall Out Boy is playing the Biden inaugural concert

And Biden is going down swinging

Developments in the ideological–state apparatus. From Popbitch:

"Now he's had his second dose of the vaccine in the UK, Rupert Murdoch is preparing to make his way to NYC to oversee the difficult post-Trump positioning for Fox News. Should be fun."

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) January 14, 2021

I hope they used bleach.

that affidavit is amazing

Hey Nice FBI Lady should be the title of this thread.

otm

murdoch's post-vaccine visit to new york to determine the post-trump future of fox news is some shakespearean shit

A nasty Covid case would be the most benign thing that Murdoch has brought to this country

I think getting the vaccine does not mean you can’t still spread it. Should work out fine!

totally. also doesn’t mean you can’t get it! what was it something like 4-5%?

calling bullshit on rupert flying to NYC to fix things. isn't it an open secret in london media that rupert murdoch has advanced dementia and is not involved in the business any more? there's tons of news attributed to him but he hasn't made public remarks on camera for like 3 years.

cc suzy i guess?

It's likely bullshit, he read it on Popbitch

isn't it an open secret in london media that rupert murdoch has advanced dementia and is not involved in the business any more?

Not so much succession as suspicion.

More stuff (appears to be Abe Lincoln bust) leaving the West Wing this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/4fjkVPmiMS

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 14, 2021

i just spent like 30 minutes trying to find the most recent footage of him online and now i'm a rupert truther. i couldn't find anything since may 2017.

Apparently all that stuff was loaners from museums, etc., and that happens with every administration.

probably so but you absolutely know Trump is taking some souvenirs back to FL

His turds?

When is the leather bound printed edition of his tweets coming out? (asked as a joke but while typing... I could actually see it happening and even make him money)

sorry if this got posted. *flbttthhh*

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/trump-toilet-scandal-jared-ivanka-barred-secret-service-using-bathroom.html

XP The Taschen Coffee Table Book Of Illustrated Trump Tweets

I haven’t got any KRM gossip.

"Twitter from the Shitter" Vol. 1, from the Franklin Mint

Yeah folks it's been done

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91tGEYnzMFL.jpg

feel free to circulate my gossip suzy. "a guy on a belle and sebastian message board told me he couldn't find any youtubes of rupert murdoch after 2017".

Sad! xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_rII783lD0

Will wait for the two volume Library of America edition to place alongside Henry James and Susan Sontag

Bought it.

I was gifted that book of poems fyi

my favorite part is when he records himself alone in a room breaking a window, saying he broke it, and then saying no one got it on camera pic.twitter.com/izSLbEeYF8

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) January 14, 2021

Yeah that's the guy I complained about on the previous thread. He was on Anderson Cooper 360 as a self-proclaimed "left-wing activist" but this guy did nothing but encourage more violence and destruction. Looks like he has a history of opportunism and creating situations that he could profit out of him.

him = them.

yeah, hope that guy gets serious time tbh

Anybody watch Biden's big "we're firing up the money printer, folks" speech?

No, but if that's his plan, it's a good one.

I guess this should comas as no surprise, this guy has been aching for civil war

http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/BB1cLc3H?ocid=se

Does look like a human grocery store tbh.

Specifically the dumpster

ain't that fresh?

Very dumb to do $1400 checks and explain that $2000 included the $600 you got with Trump's name on it.

In the universe of things that can be called "very dumb", I'm not sure that is an outstanding example.

No doubt Republicans will beat them over the head with whines of "$1400 isn't $2000!" but if Biden can get another stimulus check (or more than one) passed later in 2020 it won't be a very effective tactic. And the COVID relief package Biden's proposing looks pretty damn ambitious. I admit I'm curious to know how they're planning to deal with McConnell torpedoing 100% of everything they attempt with the filibuster though.

President-Elect Biden served in he Senate for over 35 years. So he knows the plan he outlined tonight can’t pass “quickly” & will delay the 2k for hard hit Americans.

Let’s get the extra money to people first.

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January 15, 2021

this fuckin guy irritates me so god damn much. THINGS TAKE FOREVER BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

Very dumb to do $1400 checks and explain that $2000 included the $600 you got with Trump's name on it.

― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

...the democrats

Americans are pretty dumb but also money obsessed. I think they can figure out 600 + 1400 = 2000

that ol razzle dazzle baby

Plus, the $2000 amount still has the magical Trump Mark of Approval, which makes it harder for Republicans to knock it down. It's still the same political equation that applied just before the GA runoffs, except now the Republicans are staring at having lost in large part due to stalling the full $2000. It might not be entirely "very dumb" to repeat the play that won you the Senate.

what

you don't understand what I wrote?

thats correct

Rubio is such a tiny turd. As much as I hate Trump, he was really good at taking out other hateful people.

hes still there tho

I admit I'm curious to know how they're planning to deal with McConnell torpedoing 100% of everything they attempt with the filibuster though.

Sanders leads the budget committee now, and has signaled he would do it though reconciliation, requiring only 50 votes. Same as republican tax bill of 2017, as well as Obamacare

the left wing of the party completely willed these checks into existence, there was absolutely no interest in doing them from the party leadership, will be interesting to see how the left reacts to this centrist arithmetic, especially considering the $2000 was proposed under trump, its not particularly the ideal amount for continued survival, biden et al seem happy to pick up a couple senate seats off the idea move on

Biden will seek a deal with Republicans on another round of Covid-19 relief after taking office, rather than attempting to ram a package through without their support https://t.co/hY69XKk7CJ

— Bloomberg (@business) January 13, 2021

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XbA9pXBfXUo/maxresdefault.jpg

Worth noting that Biden is significantly undershooting existing, on-the-table Dem proposals https://t.co/X6dUSfTcp7

— Zach Carter (@zachdcarter) January 15, 2021

Ah Karl thanks for the explanation!

oh, no problem - it might take a while to get to that point, too. according to washpost stuff, biden is trying to start "bipartisan" but is prepared to go with reconciliation if/when republicans refuse to help at all

I'm feeling too burnt out right now to get in my "ugh dems suck" hits yet, but the time will come, the time will come

Are you really a Democrat if you don’t negotiate against yourself?

the $2000 amount still has the magical Trump Mark of Approval

Kamala Harris was stumping for $2000 monthly mid-year, therefore it's a magical number with Republican-repelling properties

every Republican senator cancelled their subscriptions to 2000AD and the Megazine

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who will chair the Budget Committee, has said he is working to put together a massive stimulus bill that could pass under special budget rules with a simple majority vote in the Senate, instead of the 60-vote margin normally required.

Biden, however, wants to try for a bipartisan majority on his first bill — although his team appears to have conducted little outreach to congressional Republicans on the plan. Democratic aides say that if Republicans do not appear willing to cooperate, they can shift gears quickly and move to “budget reconciliation,” the procedure that would allow them to pass legislation without GOP votes. That’s how Republicans passed their big tax-cut bill after Trump took office, and how President Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/14/biden-stimulus-covid-relief/

Kamala Harris was stumping for $2000 monthly mid-year, therefore it's a magical number with Republican-repelling properties

also, magical Kamala-repelling properties.

“We will finish the job of getting a total of $2,000 in cash relief to people who need it the most.

The $600 already appropriated is simply not enough.”
—Your next president, @JoeBiden

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 15, 2021

although his team appears to have conducted little outreach to congressional Republicans on the plan.

To be fair, congressional Republicans have been busy for a few months denying his imminent presidency (among other not-governing things).

the place to start would have been retroactive checks, then get to the vaunted $2k

or perhaps even better—match dollar for dollar the trillion dollar goodie bags doled out over the last year to financial sector and defense contractors and fossil fuels etc

^actually that’s the ticket: replace “paygo” with Matching Stim Checks to actual people for every dime Delta and Raytheon get ffs

oopy

new Pew just dropped https://t.co/HUYQAzWzrc pic.twitter.com/TMUhlEqNg1

— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) January 15, 2021

!!!

https://i.ibb.co/jyNPgCF/Screenshot-20210115-101730.jpg
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At the risk of stating the obvious not because he incited violence or tried to commit a coup, it's because he didn't succeed that he's finally losing some of the base. And they'll come roaring back in 2024 given the chance.

there's a missing ", it's" in there

idk not everything just stays the same, i mean donald trump didnt even exist five years ago

Sobering thought: the dip in approval probably includes a nonzero number of people who think he didn't fight hard enough to #stopthesteal. Or because he summoned

People for whom even Trump wasn't Trumpy enough

or what Dan I said xp

WaPo says The rioting criminal mob came within 60~ seconds of seeing Mike Pence on Jan. 6. And they were just 90 feet away from a small office where Pence was hiding, before a cop steered them away.

kinda wonder how things would be different if they'd gotten hold of him and/or the secret service just started killing people right and left

29% (Pew) is a pretty step fall off that is surely at least partly attributable to a violent coup attempt

...summoned the MAGA patriots and then told them not to kill anybody and to go home

trump lucked out that it didnt get more violent than it was

yet

well at least if there are further incidents they probably wont be directly precipitated by him, tho with ol donnie you never know

Xxxxxpost Crosstabs make it clear that it's more complicated than that. More than just his base voted for him.

For instance, 20% of Trump voters considered his post-election behavior poor, 34% said it was only "fair" in January, meaning most of his voters surveyed disapproved at least somewhat of his conduct, which was a definite decline from the same poll in December. Considering the fight he was putting up, at the time, I don't think that change can merely be attributed to "he failed".

By the same token, though, 64% of Republican voters think he really won the election. So what this poll proves is that some of his voters are jumping ship, but that as usual, Republicans tolerate corruption amongst their own.

yeah some of these accounts are making it sound like we really were close to actual lawmakers & congresspeople getting whacked

Remember when Al Franken resigned from the Senate because of a dumb photo? Ah, "good times".

Xxpost There's 20 pages of crosstabs which break it down to an extent.

.

al franken resigned because of multiple credible reports of groping fwiw

Remember when Al Franken resigned from the Senate because of a dumb photo? Ah, "good times".

― Nhex,

He resigned because he groped a woman and more allegations awaited.

yeah some of these accounts are making it sound like we really were close to actual lawmakers & congresspeople getting whacked

― frogbs, Friday, January 15, 2021 10:28 AM bookmarkflaglink

I was legitimately afraid of this happening as I watched it unfold in real time. I'm glad I didn't know how close it was as things unfolded as I may have had a full-on meltdown.

i have a feeling in-person harassment of sitting Democratic Congresspeople (and Republicans who "didn't do enough") is going to be heightened for a long time. esp since unlike the President, they walk around pretty out in the open.

Remember when Al Franken resigned from the Senate because of a dumb photo? Ah, "good times".

― Nhex,

He resigned because he groped a woman and more allegations awaited.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

replace Al with Katie Hill and you have a better point

just because Republicans don't hold their own accountable, like, ever, doesn't mean we should do the same for our own folks (it does mean though that maybe we shouldn't eat them for minor incidents). I think the Franken resignation was the right call.

otm, in fact its essential that we hold our own accountable if we want to make the argument that people should be held accountable

If we're the party that supports women, POC, believes in expanding social services, etc, then, yeah, sorry, we gotta stick to our principles. To believe in foundations means to be perpetually on the defensive. Them's the breaks.

ugh. i didn't know about those other ones tbh

what would we have done re: franken had minnesota had a republican governor tho

luckily not a decision anyone had to make

let's not review that case anymore

just checked a. whitney brown's twitter and was relieved

Fun CNN article about his continued inability to acknowledge a non-Trump centric reality as the 21st nears.

does it say "increasingly isolated"? I hope not, it's a little early in the morning to have a shot

Inside the building, Trump has been weathering a second impeachment and growing isolation from his onetime allies in sullen desolation.

Asymptotically isolated

Trumpo’s Paradox

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated the year of the presidential election that Trump is contesting. It is the 2020 presidential election.

Increasingly insulated.

lol god damn it xp

insanely isolated

time for some game theory

Pew Poll: 62% of Dems say Biden should work with GOP “even if it means disappointing some of his voters.” About the same percent of Rs says GOP members should “stand up” to Biden, “even if it means it’s harder to address critical problems facing the country.”

— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) January 15, 2021

Dems are marks

lol god damn it xp

― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, January 15, 2021 9:10 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

at least it's friday

gotta apologize guys - i was a respondent on that poll but i swear i thought they said "work over"

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated that Trump is 'isolated.' In fact, Trump is 'increasingly isolated'.

Increase Mather to thread!

I don't know how journalists can continue to use the phrase 'increasingly isolated' in good conscience or with a straight face.

haven't u heard of 'foreplay'

ha interesting

Holy shit: “When Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed”https://t.co/pIBS0tMpcF

— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 15, 2021

Luke Mogelson in the New Yorker goes long on the Capitol riot and some of the Stop the Steal rallies that led up to it. Lots of detailed on-the-scene reporting. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists

dear god

Re: that Pew Pew Pew poll, I've got to assume Biden's people see the same numbers and will advise caution when considering cooperation.

I couldn't make it through that NYer article. So much unfocused, STUPID rage.

The new Post poll has some awful findings among Republicans:

51% say GOP leaders didn't go far enough in nullifying election

56% say Trump bears zero blame for the insurrection

66% say he has acted responsibly

Behold the GOP's authoritarian core:https://t.co/GUjwDOc7g3

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 15, 2021

sounds about right

any of us actually surprised by that? I mean, I just finished that New Yorker article about the insurrection and.....hoo boy. there is a lot of brain rot.

any of us actually surprised by that? I mean, I just finished that New Yorker article about the insurrection and.....hoo boy. there is a lot of brain rot.

if you are wondering whether house dem leadership likes it when katie porter goes after bank executives, here's your answer https://t.co/AMAN6pCjQX

— Zach Carter (@zachdcarter) January 15, 2021

I dunno, those numbers make me fairly optimistic. Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight. Which isn't to say that the party as a whole isn't garbage or that that particular subset of people aren't scary as fuck.

re Porter — absolutely enraging. Yes please keep sidelining the 15% of your caucus that isn’t trash

yeah that's sickening

Current road closures in Washington D.C. pic.twitter.com/YMXp0j5yzO

— Anthony Quintano (@AnthonyQuintano) January 15, 2021

is there an Uber for air travel besides Blade? lol

Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight.

This is key. Check back in six months.

This is extraordinarily bad news. Dunn has done PR for...
- Harvey Weinstein re: sexual assault expose (yes, really.)
- Keystone XL pipeline
- Hedge funds post-2008
- Charter school lobby
- NYC landlords/real estate groups to lobby against rent protectionshttps://t.co/VpLBfNKseA

— Max Moran (@MaxMoranHi) January 15, 2021

Can the new two-party system be centrist dems and progressive dems now? Can we just make that happen already?

xp wtf

anita b. dunn with that bullshit

so much energy explaining why bad is actually good, instead of being good and not bad

anita b. dunn with that bullshit

1/3 of Rs think Trump acted irresponsibly. Count me as another who's surprised it's that high.

I admit I was waiting on this one.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-ryan-texas-real-estate-agent-who-flew-to-dc-on-private-jet-arrested-in-capitol-riots

lol map

does No Fly List extend to private jets

a real double threat

Jenna Ryan, a Frisco, Texas real estate broker and life coach

if anything the arrests have been good for learning about shithole towns you didn't know existed

wait who is this Dunn person, I can't keep up

a real double threat

Jenna Ryan, a Frisco, Texas real estate broker and life coach

“You can never cancel Jenna Ryan,” she wrote. However, by Monday, she said her publisher had canceled her self help book that was due out next month. - lol.

Such incredible self-absorption and lack of self-awareness in that article.

Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight.
--
This is key. Check back in six months.

not to be a negative nancy, but...do you think rising authoritarians/fascists in the GOP are going to idly stand by as trump is out of the spotlight and all of the rage they spent decades fomenting slowly dissipates over several months? if i was a rising authoritarian/fascist, i would recognize that as a time to step up and be the thing that everyone has been worried about since 2016: a competent US fascist

Maybe by self-awareness, I mean humility and compassion.

I don't know how journalists can continue to use the phrase 'increasingly isolated' in good conscience or with a straight face.

Same reason they are still - STILL - going to folksy diners in rural areas to find out what makes Trump supporters tick.

Trump is increasingly isolated from folksy folks in rural diners like this one.

Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight.
--
This is key. Check back in six months.

not to be a negative nancy, but...do you think rising authoritarians/fascists in the GOP are going to idly stand by as trump is out of the spotlight and all of the rage they spent decades fomenting slowly dissipates over several months? if i was a rising authoritarian/fascist, i would recognize that as a time to step up and be the thing that everyone has been worried about since 2016: a competent US fascist

― Karl Malone, Friday, January 15, 2021 5:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like it's time for a jesus-y fascist. hawley is working on it.

Fortunately they're hard to manufacture.

The wannabe Trumps are severely deficient in charisma. At least so far.

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.

I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

xpost they could always run a megachurch lunatic, though that would require him taking a massive pay cut.

probably overstated but I saw something about MO voters not exactly loving Hawley atm.

I’m sure it’ll subside tho. ‘They’re all criminals and need to be booted... except mine.’

what this country needs is an ayatollah

xp

The wannabe Trumps are severely deficient in charisma. At least so far.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, January 15, 2021 11:49 AM (thirty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

^ This. I'm sure there are plenty of people vying for the job of Competent Fascist POTUS but not many that could actually go the distance.

gotta get a teeeveee show first

probably overstated but I saw something about MO voters not exactly loving Hawley atm

democrats and people with a conscience in MO fucking hate Hawley. so that's around 45% in MO, tops. the majority are dumbass conservatives, and any dissatisfaction they have with Hawley will only lessen over time as we continue through whatever gigantic world-ending Biden controversy they're going to cook up this year

can not argue w that.

especially if he makes a credible run in 2024

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.

I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, January 15, 2021 12:49 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What's this about the Betsy Ross flag?

Apparently the original flag design has become a fetish for mouth-breather trump fans

this is a false dichotomy, but i'd take $15 federal minimum wage over an extra $600 payment fwiw.

re the washington post poll of republican trump approvals

wouldn't the fact that it's the washington post asking tend to skew the responses?

aka 'oh hi washington post - fuck you i still love trump'

Dominion continuing to not mess around, I see. (Though this site is one ugly mess.)

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/statement.html

god that is such a cringy name

Pelosi open to prosecuting members of the House for collaborating with the mob:

Speaker Pelosi calls for the criminal prosecution of any member of Congress who aided and abetted the attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/ICKGhuNKVU

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 15, 2021

i feel like that is a total no brainer? should be happening already.

i think you'd want really thorough and ironclad evidence and investigation to move ahead on that

i feel like that is a total no brainer? should be happening already.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall),

but would George Mitchell and Tom Foley have done so

guess he's saving the whip for his boys, not his caucus

NEWS: Mitch McConnell is telling GOP senators their decision on a Trump impeachment trial conviction is a 'vote of conscience' https://t.co/kHiaaWASyX

— Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco) January 15, 2021

His boys, you say.

wonder if Trump's plummeting numbers has more to do with the insurrection or insane conservatives who are pissed that he "conceded" the election

it's a mix, but I'll take either one

https://defector.com/after-the-sacred-landslide/

NEW: Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin says "we're looking at more significant felony charges" being brought against Capitol related suspects in the near term.

They expect to have 300+ criminal cases by the end of the day.

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) January 15, 2021

Some more detail on that:

#CapitolRiot NEW: Nearly 100 criminal cases filed, open subject investigations expected to go beyond 300 within days. US Attorney Michael Sherwin tells reporters no direct evidence “kill or capture teams” but there are “bread crumbs” that suggest coordination among some groups

— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) January 15, 2021

in + outside the Capitol + understanding their motive, level of advance planning could take weeks or months. NOTE: Some who took part at the riot have self-surrendered, others volunteering information on activities.  Still face prosecution. @CBSNews

— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) January 15, 2021

That NOTE bit is of course about what you'd figure -- people realizing 'oh shit' and wanting to get a break.

good stuff from tish james

NY AG @TishJames has sued the NYPD for unconstitutional conduct during last year’s protests following the killing of #GeorgeFloyd. https://t.co/6Pl60cruOV pic.twitter.com/XMcy0n2snA

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) January 14, 2021

These "1776 Patriots" will lose their revolutionary fervor after wearing jail pajamas and eating jail food for a few weeks/months.

could go either way

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.
I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, January 15, 2021 12:49 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What's this about the Betsy Ross flag?

― peace, man, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:04 (one hour ago) link

Apparently the original flag design has become a fetish for mouth-breather trump fans

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:07 (one hour ago) link

This is a bummer. I saw one prominently displayed on the wall of the office of the S@n D13go superior court presiding judge in a webinar earlier this week. She didn't sound Trumpish.

https://defector.com/after-the-sacred-landslide/

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings)

this is EXCELLENT, thank you

also, lol Boebert continues her Unforgettable First Impressions tour across the Capitol

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a gun-rights hardliner who has vowed to carry her firearm around the Capitol, on Thursday backtracked on her accusation that Rep. Patrick Maloney (D-NY) had tied her to the deadly insurrection at the Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters.

“A thousand apologies @RepSeanMaloney,” Boebert tweeted. “I’m glad you clarified you were not making any remarks about me whatsoever.”

A few hours earlier, the freshman Republican had posted a letter to Maloney accusing him of making “extremely offensive, shameful and dangerous” comments during an MSNBC interview that the Republican claimed had “implied” that she conspired with the pro-Trump seditionists to attack the Capitol.

Maloney pointed out via Twitter that at no point during that interview did he even mention her.

“Um, I’ve never said your name in public, @RepBoebert. Never. Not once. (If you’re going to be a gun nut, you probably shouldn’t go off half cocked.),” the Democrat fired back.

He offered to post the transcript of the interview but warned her that it “might be like ‘a fact,'” so the transcript “might not help you.”

if david roth isnt already writing a trump book then whats going on

LOL @ “bread crumbs.” Very Q.

soo theyre saying i did an insurrection but other people didnt okaaay i guess??

TIM YOUNG:

"Sooo... was violently burning down police stations, murdering people, overtaking 6+ city blocks, and declaring an "autonomous zone" in an American city not an insurrection?"

"I'm confused as to how the definition shifts."

— dotJenna - Jenna Ryan Realty (@dotjenna) January 12, 2021

One man arrested on Thursday in Alabama, Joshua Matthew Black, for instance, spoke about spilling blood on the Senate floor in the name of Jesus -- while he himself was bleeding from the cheek, according to his criminal charging documents and images of him from that day and afterward.

Speaking to the FBI later, he told them he had accomplished his goal.

lmao

you gotta respect their game, i mean regardless if youre the... secretary of defense or whatever

... pic.twitter.com/ArUek6qyzq

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) January 15, 2021

Americans have a particular kind of crazy that no people will rival.

yes. USA has produced good music, film and decent tv, but beyond that we really shouldn’t be allowed to do much of anything

the silicon chip has been pretty handy

tbh I wouldn’t want to go back to a time before GPS but the rest? I’d manage.

uh oh it's contagious

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210114-brazil-s-bolsonaro-increasingly-isolated-as-trump-leaves

has increasingly isolated trump been banned from ivanka and jared’s washrooms yet

'Deranged Quixotes' next band name

Procedural clarification: under House Dem rules, a member is allowed to serve on two non-exclusive committees. Mine are Oversight and Natural Resources. One can ask for a waiver for a third committee. I asked. Others in same situ got waivers. I did not. I play by the rules

— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) January 15, 2021

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/mccaskill-staffers-hawley-election-459661

has increasingly isolated trump been banned from ivanka and jared’s washrooms yet

increasingly constipated

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/mccaskill-staffers-hawley-election-459661

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, January 15, 2021 8:31 PM (forty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

with their track record i'm sure they'll be effective............
.........
..
at spending money with no results

President Trump on Thursday moved to freeze $27.4 billion worth of government programs in the last week of his presidency using a budget maneuver called rescission... proposed extreme cuts to domestic programs... The request also included cuts from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the Peace Corps and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars among a slew of others...

Scorch the earth and salt the fields on your way out

This fuckin’ guy

yes. USA has produced good music, film and decent tv, but beyond that we really shouldn’t be allowed to do much of anything

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, January 15, 2021 3:08 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the silicon chip has been pretty handy

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, January 15, 2021 3:12 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

“When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery”

Not even movies anymore.

America's a butt

the stanford prison experiment as a country

For a long time, I just assumed Boebert was a derpified misspelling of Brightbart.

I thought it was a misspelling of Boehner.

thanks i had managed to forget about that guy

He's a weed guru now i think

gave up his chardonnay, or just added weed to the mix?

if david roth isnt already writing a trump book then whats going on

he's said he doesn't want to (and hopes the market for thinking about Trump will be entirely exhausted soon after he's out of office)

only five more days, what could go wrong

even if he wasn't the best writer on Trump, the fact that Roth was a Trump gadfly before Trump entered politics should qualify him above any other pundit though

Biden's COVID briefing was forceful, especially with regards to the reps not wearing masks during the attack last week: "Grow up."

Hawley at 1% is giving me life https://t.co/54euo8l9ax

— Michael Nordine (@slowbeard) January 15, 2021

cruz and don jr neck and neck baby

Well this is a read.

Never has a DoD transcript made the rounds amongst mil journos -- for all the wrong reasons. For starters, current acting SECDEF "cannot wait to leave this job." https://t.co/YFCfyxjqBv

— Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف (@nancyayoussef) January 15, 2021

xps Fully expect Boeboe in the next 2024 poll.

Beetbort redux

Yeah, she's kinda got that grizzly-mom vibe, youbetcha

even if he wasn't the best writer on Trump, the fact that Roth was a Trump gadfly before Trump entered politics should qualify him above any other pundit though

WaPo photographer got a close-up of the My Pillow guy's notes.

Hard to read. Seems to push for using "martial law if necessary."

References Sidney Powell and, I think, an attorney at the NSA ("Fort Mead" sic). Advocates for Trump to "move Kash Patel to acting CIA" pic.twitter.com/xU0tz3YDo7

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) January 15, 2021

Meantime

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has expanded its criminal investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances to include the family’s compound in Westchester County, lawyers and people familiar with the investigation tell @KaraScannell.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 15, 2021

Reuters: NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION SAYS IT HAS FILED PETITION IN COURT FOR BANKRUPTCY

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 15, 2021

wut

(probably doing it to evade the pending litigation against them, and reintegrating in Texas)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns/national-rifle-association-says-it-has-filed-bankruptcy-petitions-in-u-s-court-idUSKBN29K2LV

really really good Know Your Enemy ep with him from a few weeks ago.

If this is a file named “Roth wave 1.mp3” with no metadata, then I’ve heard it & yes

Him talking to Jeff Weiss on the LAnd pod a couple months back was also fun

(probably doing it to evade the pending litigation against them, and reintegrating in Texas)

yeah, and NRA insinuated as such that they don't want to be incorporated in NY anymore because of the corruption of the state (lolz)

The USA also produces some of the finest literature, but since no one cares about that, I'll keep quiet.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErzUxZnXIBQueH7.png

he means "law-abiding White Americans"

they must've realized the militia wasn't as well formed as they claimed it would be

"we are TRYING to avoid a lawsuit from New York"

Didn't that dickhead demand they build him a McMansion in TX?

You know you're corrupt when Oliver North is the whistleblower

Big surprise: CNN is saying Trump is planning a farewell ceremony (I think they said simultaneous to Biden's inauguration, but I didn't quite catch that) with 21-gun salute, etc.

https://mapsaboutnothing.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/pines-of-mar-gables1.png?w=600&h=450

21 guns should do the trick, I reckon

just resting my head on this new My Pillow, cracking open a cold Coors and chillin’ to Worn Copy

cannot wait for the mypillow guy to be subpoenaed to give testimony under oath at senate impeachment hearings in the morning, then ram through full socialism using reconciliation in the afternoon.

"full socialism" as defined by [insert name of loud right wing ignoramus here]

fuck the nra, goodbye you irredeemable murder apologists

that secretary of defense interview is unbelievable

MyPillow guy 2 be disappointed when he learn martial law requires Congressional approval

so are there going to be like 150 pardons announced on Wednesday morning

Trump 42%
Pence 16%
Trump Jr. 6%
Cruz 6%
Romney 6%
Haley 5%
Rubio 2%
Tim Scott 2%
Noem 2%
Cotton 1%
Hawley 1%
Pompeo 1%
Hogan 0%
Rick Scott 0%

I confess I enjoy the thought of Trump just totally cock-blocking all those other potential candidates until the last possible minute. Betcha none of them dares to even create an exploratory committee lest they incur MAGAnaut wrath.

intrigued by the 6% who prefer don junior to senior

poor hulk hogan

who is Noem? somehow, scanning the other names on the list, i have a feeling they're going to be a major league asshole

oh, the SD Gov anti-masker, cool

2% of people are like "Gov Kristi Noem took a stand against masks - and I believe she should be president of the United States because of it"

then they walk into a doorway at a three-quarter angle and get stuck, bumping into it over and over until someone rotates them a bit and they slide right through, on to the next tv show

The thing is, one of those turds will be on the ballot, and when they are, they will get tens of millions of votes.

if a turd smears on the ballot, is that a hanging Chad

January 2013 polling for the 2016 GOP primary:

Marco Rubio 21%
Paul Ryan 16%
Mike Huckabee 15%
Jeb Bush 14%
Chris Christie 14%
Rand Paul 5%
Bobby Jindal 3%
Susana Martinez 2%
Rick Perry 2%
Someone else/Undecided 7%

exactly

2024 wildcards

MyPillow Guy
MAGA shaman
Tiger King
Vince McMahon
Eyepatch guy
Steve Bannon
Barron Trump
John Wick
Martin Shkreli

lol Bobby Jindal

I don't Susana Martinez, but I'm betting BIG TIME on her for 2024 because i believe in america, i believe in redemption stories, i believe in people i've never heard of, i believe in the underdog, and i believe that surely she must be the only person on any of these lists who isn't a gigantic asshole

Bill Belicheck blew his shot by refusing a medal from Trump

Tom Brady will be retired by 2024, though

Seen on the intarwebz: this has all been a long Trump play to have pictures of an inauguration with a smaller crowd than his

and then he's going to tweet pict-

fax

would love to see Trump at a FedEx Office

"now what is the phone number for Twitter so I can send this there?"

There was a film clip being circulated a couple of years ago of prominent trump family and cabinet members heads superimposed over the heads of people being rounded up by the CIA. From the Wire or something.
Is that still a total fantasy or is a real version booked for late next week?

Dorks who sign their tweets like an email (but good)

Yes, we can and we must use budget reconciliation to increase the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour with a simple majority vote in the Senate, just like Republicans did to pass massive tax breaks to the 1%.

- Incoming Majority Staff Director. Senate Budget Committee

— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) January 16, 2021

CIA hates Trump. It's total fantasy.

Not Photoshop. (I swear I'd never heard of this Jimmy Dore fucker until December 2020 at the absolute earliest.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er0V9UqWMAMaC1f.jpg

why does cucker tarlson look like a fucking plastic action figure

Because that's what his viewers want him to look like.

tucker's 'confused because what you're saying is too horrific to believe' face is iconic

for years I used to think those memes were just using the same still shot of him as part of the meme until I realized they were unique shots each time and his face just...does that.

its bizarre

Yeah, he's totally Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
https://omigods.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/I-Was-Listening-to-the-Magic-Voices.jpg

did he get rid of the bowtie simply cos Jon Stewart made fun of him for wearing one?

probably not 'simply', but mostly

what a perfectly despicable, entitled, condescending pile of shit this man is

I forget about him now and then for a couple weeks but then every time I see him face it bullets straight to the top of most punchable

HIS HIS HIS face

i feel like there's been SO MUCH of this kind of news lately:

Breaking NYT: Prosecutors in Georgia appear increasingly likely to open a criminal investigation of Trump over his attempts to overturn the results of the state's 2020 election, an inquiry into offenses that would be beyond his federal pardon power. https://t.co/SdB215f0hr

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 16, 2021

and my questions are:

is there a rough estimate of how many separate criminal investigations are open, formal accusations, proceedings, etc? like, 10 different ones? 50? where are we? holy shit

and is there a chance of even ONE thing sticking?

I think yes! It is impossible to keep up with them though

Lawrence O’Donnell just speculated on national television that “the future will prevail”

how it goes, generally

man idk why all these states keep harassing our innocent President

nobody with any meaningful power is gonna be on this guy's side in 5 days

their jealous because he a fucking handsome genius

his face is supposed to look like a capybara's ass, it's part of the charm

I have a very good friend who looks a little like a cross between Trump and Cruz. It’s tough.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.eiEDGrPtmES6Zofp_2Y5FwAAAA&pid=Api

Good evening!

I read that in your Bela Lugosi voice

me (as my senator votes to legalize stealing money directly out of my pocket): Did you hear trump fired Steve Blarbby today? He’s done. Blarbby is the one would rein him in.

— jeremy levick (@jeremylevick) January 15, 2021

Yeah, that’ll help.

White nationalist Nick Fuentes just told his followers on a video stream tonight to destroy their phones if they entered the Capitol building on January 6th.

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) January 16, 2021

After encouraging his followers to destroy their phones, Fuentes backtracked. “I'm gonna say don't do that, for my legal sake,” he stated. pic.twitter.com/azjfvMFq81

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) January 16, 2021

Suing Ned for whiplash. Giuliani already agreed to represent me.

wow thank god he took it back he might've gotten in some real trouble

it’s cause he’s smart

also helpfully explaing Trump’s latest statements for what they are NOT

Trump tried to defund the police yesterday

also to defund covid vaccination in the developing world, and the hurricane detecting folks who don't sharpie their maps, the NEAA and the research dept of the EPA

THis was the video I was talking about earlier but couldn't find, wasn't sure what to use in search engine so that may be it.
would think if CIA hated trump it would make this scenario more rather than less likely. I also see that I substituted teh wrong legal enforcement body since its the FBI here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Uy0Uznw4E

I read that in your Bela Lugosi voice

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 16 January 2021 04:48 (nine hours ago) link

True story: His son lives in my town, and drives a giant Mercedes S-class with the license plate "BELA JR" He's an attorney who made his name and fortune pursuing his family's rights to profit off Bela's likeness.

lol

I can't help feeling that staying as Béla Blaskó would have given him an even better acting name.

Béla Blaskó Stats for Season

good morning!

4 more days!

until my miss me yet trump billboard is unveiled

Well, this ... Is ... Something. I'm so done with the cutesy yarn spinning/re-assessments:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/madison-cawthorn-capitol-insurrection-washington.html

omf GOD i can barely get through this.

who is this fucking asshole? i've never even heard of him! he's the youngest congressman, madison cawthorn, and he lives his life at a distance, like everything that is happening is barely tangentially related to his own actions

Cawthorn — now armed with a handgun, he said — took shelter in the office of a colleague. “It was a great bonding experience,” he said. “But it literally felt like a scene from The Lord of the Rings. You kind of see the orcs — Helm’s Deep, or taking over Minas Tirith, whatever — it just looks like the enemy is on something that they’re not supposed to be on … And the worst part was they’re all waving these American flags and these MAGA flags, and you want to say, ‘You don’t represent me at all. That’s not my movement. You’re not part of my party one bit if you’re taking this kind of extreme action.’ One can say, ‘You can only push somebody so much, and they watched the Black Lives Matter people do this all summer,’ blah blah blah — but at the end of the day, there’s no excuse for it.”

And yet for Cawthorn it was also, on a personal level, a missed opportunity: “I genuinely believe, had we realized what was going on and sent myself, or maybe Lauren Boebert” — he was referring to the freshman representative from Colorado infamous for her gun fetish — “some of these people who are just very recognizable to, kind of, the MAGA crowd; in the wheelchair, I probably would’ve been better, because it’s very easily recognizable. I might’ve just gone to the front steps.” And there, facing the rioters, he said, “I think we could’ve stopped them.”

go back to undergrad, madison

ugh, the next two paragraphs reveal that even mark meadows wasn't impressed

n extremely online Evangelical ex-linebacker son of a financial adviser, Cawthorn so embodied the right-wing ethos of the Trump era — “I don’t want to raise a family in a country run by left-wing socialists,” etc. — that it didn’t even matter to voters when Trump himself endorsed someone else in his primary. That was done on the advice of the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who held the seat from 2013 to 2020. Meadows knew Cawthorn personally: A few years before, he had been his intern and then a low-level staffer.

A Meadows aide at the time described Cawthorn as “a typical overachiever College Republican type” with a good sense of branding. (He dropped out of Patrick Henry College after one semester.) As an intern, Cawthorn was tasked with assembling each day’s “clips,” the collection of news items relating to the boss. “What I took away from it is it’s almost a scattergraph of where different news outlets and media organizations are,” Cawthorn told me, referring to partisanship. He said the Associated Press is “very, very fair,” and the Washington Examiner “does a good job.” Or actually, he wasn’t sure. “I think it’s them,” he said. “One of the Washingtons does a good job. You realize Politico leans this way; the Drudge Report leans this way.”

jeeeeeeeezus

He lowered his mask to drink from a can of peach-flavored Red Bull.

Red Bull: Lower that mask, and slam it!

Baked Alaska getting cooked:

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-alaska-crime-6666c735165a19a6ee019e412235bd8d

Red Bull gives you Kings!

Wouldn't be surprising if this was legit:

This woman in the pink hat calling out the directions on the megaphone is 100% without a doubt @laurenboebert @RepBoebert 's mother. The faces line up perfectly as seen in this video i just made comparing their faces with just shifting opacity levels and screen record. Retweet. pic.twitter.com/YcelLk8nYQ

— 🌊❤Battle Born Bitch❤🌊 (@NVTaraStrong) January 16, 2021

holy shit—that's the woman who was barking instructions through megaphone into that office, telling them where to go?

a sitting congressperson's mother did recon on the capitol building the day before

I wonder if Lauren Boebert and her mother is under FBI surveillance?

Is the woman in the pink hat calling out the directions at The Capitol on the megaphone lauren boebert mother???pic.twitter.com/xfks6t855E

— 🦊 (@F0XRIDER2020) January 16, 2021

yoooo

maybe jumping the gun here but

Their accents are very different

ah

background on Boebert - wow, what a real winner:

https://coloradosun.com/2020/09/14/lauren-boebert-congress-guns-trump/

Banana fana Boebert

Soon, he said, a security official “came up and said, ‘Hey, just wanna give you guys all a reminder: Everything’s under control, but if anything bad should happen, there’s bulletproof backing on all these chairs.’ And at that point, the Democratic side lost their minds. They just started yelling, ‘This is because of you!’ ”

The one yelling that was Minnesota's own Dean Phillips.

My mom’s congressman - and in some miracle, she voted for him.

I might’ve just gone to the front steps.” And there, facing the rioters, he said, “I think we could’ve stopped them.”

...and a little child shall lead them.

Baked Alaska’s plan to livestream his crimes is not going great https://t.co/zv8xsdkNwA

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 16, 2021

Cawthorn — now armed with a handgun, he said — took shelter in the office of a colleague. “It was a great bonding experience,” he said. “But it literally felt like a scene from The Lord of the Rings

Guessing this is the contemporary usage of 'literally'.

there ARE a lot of pointy-eared Congressmen

"Their accents are very different" Boebert and her mother or the woman in the pink hat and the mother? Because someone posted a video of her mother speaking in that thread and it sounds exactly like the woman in the megaphone. I suspect Boebert is about to have some serious problems.

Justice Sotomayor, on the Trump administration’s rush to kill. pic.twitter.com/6WTaVPeljP

— Taniel (@Taniel) January 16, 2021

I have to assume someone is literally getting off on this

Will Catholic Biden commute all federal death sentences day 1?

couldn't get t to sit in the wrong chair with a sponge on his head at all could they

Because someone posted a video of her mother speaking in that thread and it sounds exactly like the woman in the megaphone.

I think they sound nothing alike. Boebert mom has thick twangy cuhntree accent, megaphone lady has standard American accent, possibly eastern seaboard.

this is just a summary of stuff that's widely known by but reading articles like this are a real pick me up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/trump-s-shambolic-empire-faces-long-odds-for-one-more-comeback

I just got the reissued/updated version of Dark Towers, the book on Deutsche Bank that got a good amount of attention/press, but am kinda figuring there'll have to be yet another updated edition here soon enough.

no expert on business or finance, but if he somehow survives all this then we'll finally know that no consequences exist for the man

One executive in conservative media who’s still bullish on Trump’s prospects for creating a subscription-based video service conceded that recent events may limit possible platforms, advertisers and partners. Still, the executive said that even controversial porn purveyors can find homes online.

Thank you for that, Bloomberg reporter.

New: US Capitol Police arrested a Virginia man as he attempted to pass through a police checkpoint in downtown Washington Friday with fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition, CNN reporting.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 16, 2021

(xposts) Another one in the same vein (you need to go incognito to read it):

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/donald-trump-after-presidency.html

_One executive in conservative media who’s still bullish on Trump’s prospects for creating a subscription-based video service conceded that recent events may limit possible platforms, advertisers and partners. Still, the executive said that even controversial porn purveyors can find homes online. _


Thank you for that, Bloomberg reporter.

looking forward to getting account at peetape.ai this summer

fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition

Self-radicalized ISIS-identifying terrorists are smart enough to choose softer targets. This bozo might just as well have thrown himself directly into a wood-chipper.

Love this quote:

“It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection... and we’ll do it as many times as it takes.” pic.twitter.com/bsLt7zL36X

— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) January 16, 2021

Moved by that because I am a sucker

yeah that's great

Along the same lines:

"Thank you, but fuck you for being there.” - D.C. police officer Michael Fanone on his response to the few rioters who helped when others were trying to kill him pic.twitter.com/EHKT7QMGvJ

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) January 15, 2021

Looks like Rep. Boebert’s mom may have been giving directions through a megaphone at the rally (and definitely was in town and was given a tour):

The @FBI and @DCPoliceDept are trying identify the lady directing every move with megaphone 📢!

See the picture⬇️⬇️⬇️ Have info? Call the FBI’s Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) @FBIWFOpic.twitter.com/O6kgp7fLBy

— Skyleigh😷#ConvictTrump DAY 339@🏠 (@Sky_Lee_1) January 16, 2021

so are there going to be like 150 pardons announced on Wednesday morning

that was posted above and there seems to be ilx disagreement

(xpost)

oh I didn't even mean rioters...I just mean every one of his criminal associates

Glad to see the #bluewave #resist brains trust is ok the case.

Those videos of cops above are copaganda at its finest.

sometimes there are bad guys

It's excellent that the internet is dissecting every scrap of video minutely and passing on their tips. I wouldn't take that 'Boebert's mom' tweet as anywhere near conclusive. If it could be fitted to a larger pattern of evidence it would have some value; as a standalone it is pretty shaky.

I really don’t think Trump is going to pardon these people, not out of any conscience at all but because it would not be great for his case at either the Senate or any civil cases that may be brought against him post-presidency.

Boebert's director of communications has resigned, two weeks into her term. I look forward to her telling Tucker (and his new co-host, Glenn) what she really thinks about the libtards and the cucks and the mud people, without her staff holding her back.

boebert

I wonder if pushing stuff like this through is going to be easier because the distraction of an impeachment trial is going to make it harder to organise the kind of opposition that makes democrats too nervous to implement their incredibly popular policies.

Sorry like this

Biden’s planning a legislative package with pathway to citizenship for ~11 million immigrants https://t.co/MzveiY1u0j pic.twitter.com/xXu49q7qKB

— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) January 16, 2021

thats great