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

feel _slightly_ less contempt for the capitol PD after watching that

I live 5 miles from DC, and I'm on a major street a short distance from a well-traveled Metro station. So normally when there's a demonstration or event or whatever, I can look out my window and see people walking to/from the Metro, with signs or matchy shirts or hats or whatever.

I didn't think to look today, but some other folks in my 'hood warned that there were some tactical LARPers roaming. Or, what I would have thought of as mere LARPers before today.

Yeah, I think we can stop calling them LARPers now and just go with terrorists.

I didn't know anything was going on because I was on a long and intense w4w and then looked at the work emails and people were like "i am free and glued to the television," so i immediately came here because i don't own a television

Why doesn't that cop start wailing on the dude with his baton?

There’s one of him and like 30 of them?

Clemenza: it's an online middle school French class, 7th and 8th graders, and because it's Wednesday it was only 35 minutes long. I've never taught kids that young before this year and I don't yet have a good instinctive gauge of what they can handle, what they can't, and how to talk to them about it. That's why I didn't automatically put on the news. I figured my class, which was basically watching videos about cakes, wouldn't ask much of them and would be a harmless distraction from being glued to the news. Don't know if that came across as reliably normal or callously out of touch on my part, could go either way.

Don't overthink it. There is no good decisions in this case.

Totally understand. I always wanted kids to see stuff like that, and loved talking about it, but there are good arguments for letting their parents make that decision (your own job security being one of them).

Seriously. I hope everyone can be compassionate to themselves today of all days. There are no wrong answers for coping with this.

Thanks, everyone.

Rep. Linda Chavez told MSNBC she couldn't even hunker down with GOP colleagues because some of them didn't wanna wear a mask.

JESUS FUCK THEY ARE NUTS

that footage is bananas - nightmarish

one good way to make sure that removal by impeachment or 25th amendment doesn't happen is for cnn to continually repeat "that's not going to happen"

Huh...somehow that Chavez anecdote really blew my mind. In general this afternoon has been a unique feeling of shock about something I literally imagined happening many times

I'm guessing probably in November, but how often do we get to 1700 posts in these monthly threads by the end of the 6th?

THERE'S STILL TWO WEEKS TIL INAUGURATION

The United States Capitol this evening - Photo by @LeahMillis pic.twitter.com/oCn17ZB7yz

— Anthony Quintano (@AnthonyQuintano) January 6, 2021

Where is the footage of droves being driven into paddywagons?

not tryina doompost but the protestors achieved their aim today

Trump literally told the crowd: "We're gonna walk to the Capitol!... You have to show strength and you have to be strong."

Posting facts ≠ doomposting imo.

I don't think I've seen a single pair of handcuffs today.

if you had tried to tell people in 2016 this was what a trump presidency would look like - and i did and many others did! - they would've rolled their eyes at you

Look, I know we're all coping in different ways, but I've gone from just furious to furious and also a bit like "we told you this was going to happen, and no one would believe us, and now it's happened."

BREAKING. Mob of Trump supporters swarm the media near the US Capitol. They yell what Trump frequently says, “the media is the enemy of the people.” They destroy equipment and chased out reporters. I’ve never seen anything like this in my 20 year career: @nbcwashington @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/3VLC07JQR2

— Shomari Stone (@shomaristone) January 6, 2021

I am actually surprised that I haven't seen any Nazi flags in all of this... or maybe I haven't looked closely enough.

if you had tried to tell people in 2016 this was what a trump presidency would look like - and i did and many others did! - they would've rolled their eyes at you

there were people here as recently as a few weeks ago speculating that trump was actually desperate to leave office and hated being president

13 arrests. 13.

woman that was shot inside the US capitol has died

fascist anti-intellectual morons

Washington, DC is designed to be one of the most secure places on earth.

That pro-Trump terrorists made it to the Speaker’s chair was a choice. Congress must ask who made that choice. pic.twitter.com/OOMWLvgqRa

— Rep. Mondaire Jones (@RepJones) January 6, 2021

(plays Taps)

Chile 73: “Hey are you going to get me those sales figures

woman that was shot inside the US capitol has died

At around 1 or 2 the general stream of work emails just slowed to a trickle and stopped dead.

Somehow I managed to get some work done, but my mind was elsewhere.

- meant for shot n killed terrorist

genuine lol

Elizabeth was not ready for the revolution pic.twitter.com/oZPVUJvTs2

— Kevín (@KevOnStage) January 6, 2021

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/13_Tzameti_Poster.jpg/220px-13_Tzameti_Poster.jpg

how it started

Totally agree! This is, with all necessary caveats, a fucking great day.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:29 AM (five hours ago)

how it's going

lol this whole presidency was destined to end up with Pence having to be protected from a goon army of Trump's making

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, January 7, 2021 6:28 AM (one hour ago)

woman that was shot inside the US capitol has died

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, January 7, 2021 9:49 AM (three minutes ago)

Elizabeth was not ready for the revolution pic.twitter.com/oZPVUJvTs2

— Kevín (@KevOnStage) January 6, 2021

"play stupid games, win stupid prizes" was frequently heard over the summer, remember, Elizabeth?

I am actually surprised that I haven't seen any Nazi flags in all of this... or maybe I haven't looked closely enough.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 2:48 PM (five minutes ago)

dunno what else to call the confederate battle flag

woman that was shot inside the US capitol has died

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 5:49 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

was she shot by law enforcement or another protester

knoxville is or was covid capital of the world. thank you elizabeth for everything. great job.

Law enforcement

Xpost

i gotta maybe watch some guy play mario for awhile, i dunno

makes you think

Pro-Trump rioter, holding up his bloody hand: "This could be you or your kids." pic.twitter.com/Vui3mG81F6

— The Recount (@therecount) January 6, 2021

I saw a tweet about a Nazi flag inside the capital but no photo proof