And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

i liked when the wackos were mostly in their basement on a had radio waiting for the newsletters in the mail.

"My kids'll be ussing their own penssilllss.."

Sounds like she had a nip or two of Hot Damn before taking the podium.

I remember where the only place I read about William Cooper-level bullshit was from randos reviewing Behold a Pale Horse on epinions.com

We’ve got cultural amnesia about how pervasive the Satanic Panic (QAnon v1.0) was and how many lives it ruined and those people are still alive, you don’t need to dip back to the Anti-Masonic Party.

And it helpfully disabuses me of the illusion of “progress” or that “people know better these days”.

― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, January 5, 2021 3:01 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i like item 1 in the list at the end of iggy pop's review of the decline and fall

Iggy Pop on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall is the most poignant thing I’ve read all week. https://t.co/jksAqwnpAQ pic.twitter.com/sG5aW5gN9h

— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) January 3, 2021

Cultural amnesia about 'recovered memories'

Like, we also know that were weird radical LEFTIST people in small shitty honky towns across the US before, too, who for whatever reason could not or did not want to leave those places. That's also comforting to me.

Iggy otm

We’ve got cultural amnesia about how pervasive the Satanic Panic

oh yeah! I was pretty young during this but remember watching the McMartin case and being so scared by all the propaganda and thinking there were satanic molesters that were going to get me.

I remember a family vacation to Boston Commons as a kid, my first time seeing a doomsday prophet with a sandwich board ranting insanely. Now it's just like that, but on TV 24/7.

the president being the central source and subject of these conspiracy theories -- as the hero, not the villain -- seems a novel development

Yeah I find it oddly comforting that there were lunatics and rumors and conspiracy theories in the past, but they’d wait to the annual town meeting or something to talk about how the Masons or Catholics are sacrificing children.

I mean, how many people were into Lyndon LaRouche? A lot, right? 270,000 people voted for him in the 2000 Democratic Primary! But you could really pretty much go through your life not knowing LaRouchites were out there unless somebody handed you a pamphlet.

dinosaurs aren't extinct

Have you seen half the members of the Senate these days? We could post pictures of Leahy, Grassley, Feinstein et al. staring at impending meteors.

Or asteroids, whatevs

I saw a Lyndon Larouche sticker on a car last year, right before he died. It was...something.

the president being the central source and subject of these conspiracy theories -- as the hero, not the villain -- seems a novel development

A woman I knew from Iraq War protests disappeared into the LaRouche machine after getting recruited on her campus. I Google her name every couple of years hoping she resurfaces.

Meanwhile elsewhere

My brother tells me there was zero coverage of the US on the news in France tonight and he’s absolutely delighted

— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) January 5, 2021

France didn’t cover Bean Dad?

Bean Dad is exclusively covered by a just announced French Spotify podcast.

In France it's called Pere Legume

We’ve got cultural amnesia about how pervasive the Satanic Panic (QAnon v1.0)

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/cb4wq7/old_case_kurt_mcfall/

damn you! i had been ignoring that bean dad thing i saw trending

I saw a Lyndon Larouche sticker on a car last year, right before he died.

The dude who lives across the alley from me has a Ben Carson bumper sticker on his car.

Oh, I've seen a few of those, too. I witnessed a guy carrying a TULSI tote the other day and I nearly drove onto the sidewalk lol

A neighbor is still proudly posting a Yang placard in his front garden.

I saw a Lyndon Larouche sticker on a car last year, right before he died.

Don't look back
you can ever look back

https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-21-2015/HAylMC.gif

xp what Trump did to the term “fake news”, Republicans are now doing to the term “fraud”.

NPR reports that Trump himself might address the cretin rally tomorrow... this won't end well.

That is some level of commitment

It’s amazing how many Biden and Trump yard signs are still up.

NPR reports that Trump himself might address the cretin rally tomorrow... this won't end well.

Maybe he'll clear the crowd out with tear gas first.

"beloved internet figure of old Tron Guy" what does this mean?

― akm, Tuesday, January 5, 2021 1:40 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, missed a comma in there.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/000/037/tron_guy-thumb.jpg

You cannot convince me that guy is not Ken Bone (or a Bone-clone if you will).

Oh, I forgot about him. Love him <3

(I meant Tron Guy)

the CEO of SurveyUSA, on the GA election:

“There is zero data that points to the two GOP incumbents being re-elected tonight, therefore, as a circumspect pollster in 2020, you’d say the Republicans have at least a 49% chance of winning,” he said.

when ever the people running the polling organizations are talking shit on themselves, you know it's bad

Surely the mass arrests of Democrats and reappearance of JFK Jr. are coming this time

Oops it'll just be RFK Jr yelling about vaccines.

Just don't look at Tron Guy's twitter feed if you still want to <3 him.

Cleta Mitchell, attorney who was on Trump's phone call with GA Sec of State, has resigned from her law firm. “Cleta Mitchell has informed firm management of her decision to resign from Foley & Lardner effective immediately," her firm said.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 5, 2021

Yeah, I think her firm was blindsided by her participation in that call.

Abundant evidence suggests that getting caught in Trump's orbit is not a good career move.

I don't know... he's got a bottomless war chest grifted from the unwashed faithful; he could be her sugar daddy if she only proves her fealty.

People in Trump's orbit are as disposable as kleenex. Fealty is hard to maintain when Trump's whims and demands can contradict the previous day's whims and demands.

As noted elsewhere, if she is *not* working for Trump then her conversations are/were not privileged and she can be subpoenaed for stuff.

the needle is back (but not on yet)

omg FUCK THAT NEEDLE

gather 'round needle watchers, that's if you're still livin'

omg FUCK THAT NEEDLE

I mean, I've heard of threading the needle ...