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

weird, you can still see the video if you get there from a quote-tweet

President @realDonaldTrump calls for Capitol protestors to go home in peace. ⬇️ https://t.co/SnEKmGeOj7

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) January 6, 2021

Right? Impunity from damaging property? Does that mean if my neighbor looks at me sideways, it's cool for me to kick all his windows in and piss on his bed?

from the looks of it on cnn, seems like the curfew is more of a suggestion

While I don't totally agree with the tweet in question, I also think Katherine and others are right to say: it is law and order rhetoric that brought us here. Maybe let's not cheer for one team of fascist thugs to stop another team of fascist thugs.

there are more tweets that follow that i think are incoherent, but it's probably just me

i understand the impulse to ask "where are the police??" and the hypocrisy in their absence here. but the impunity with which the alt right are allowed to protest and to commit property damage is something we should all have.

this one starts off the argument, and is least objectionable i guess. my main problem with it is that he's making a comparison between dumbass altrighters trying to "storm the capitol" with

demanding equal retribution will only be used to raise budgets for, and more heavily arm, law enforcement- and to demonize protestors writ large. this police know this! lawmakers know this.

this is where it goes off into cuckoo land. "demanding equal retribution" - who? when? a couple hours ago? and if capitol police were to somehow keep rioters out of the capitol, that would lead to budget raises for law enforcement, and to demonize all protesters? police know this? lawmakers know this?

the police will never take our side. they are an instrument of right wing power. they will never tear gas the proud boys, because they are the proud boys- but they also shouldn't, because tear gas is reprehensible no matter who it is used on.[

you got that right bub

this must be allowed to change nothing in our demands to defund the police.

huh

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the heart wants what it wants

Law enforcement officials are creating A LOT of work for themselves by not processing these people now. They’ll never be able to hunt many of them down.

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) January 6, 2021

thanks for coming! watch your step!

While I don't totally agree with the tweet in question, I also think Katherine and others are right to say: it is law and order rhetoric that brought us here. Maybe let's not cheer for one team of fascist thugs to stop another team of fascist thugs.

― Pere Legume (the table is the table), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 6:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah one thing about living in a police state is its logic worms its way into your brain and beliefs

lol

Half of right wing twitter right now is saying this is a false flag by antifa and the other half is posting pictures from the capitol saying this is me! i'm doing this!

— metal dot txt (@metaltxt) January 6, 2021

Just emailed my senators and rep to remove trump asap. Can't hurt to try.

yeah that tweet's incoherent, let's not focus on it too much. there are some fair discussion points buried in this for sure, I'm immediately reminded of how the brutal pepper spray attacks on treesitters in the late 90's sprang directly from failed court cases around similar treatment of antichoice protesters earlier in the 80s.

At this point I'm starting to think Trump *resigning* is the only act that will defuse this bullshit.

sad lol

I hope he resigns and then his supporters string him up for crossing Trump.

i mean, i get that, but what do we want here? for police to be cool with altright weirdos to take over the building?

that's not the police state worming its way into my head. when i worked in DC i sure as fuck would not want random weirdos in the building. have you seen parks and rec? "the public" are fucking crazy

ol donnie really did it this time

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He might be President Hyperbole, but give him credit: he may very well have shit the bed bigger and worse than any president in history.

that's not the police state worming its way into my head. when i worked in DC i sure as fuck would not want random weirdos in the building. have you seen parks and rec? "the public" are fucking crazy

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 6:48 PM (two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

naw just talking generally how peoples first thought often when they see something they dont like is lock that mfr up, idrc even if people want the police to shoot the fascists or whatever not really a deal in the big scheme of things, but it is pretty interesting if one is in the mood to contemplate the culture of the whole thing, and fwiw i def think the police should have kept those people out of the capitol, but the reason they didnt is because theyre the police, which leads us back

Breaking News: Lawmakers will resume counting Electoral College votes on Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, after a mob of Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol. She vowed the breach would not “deter us from our responsibility.” https://t.co/461n4SB9gy

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 6, 2021

parks and rec was a false flag

Karl otm. We can hate the police for shooting an unarmed man in the back 7 times AND for not arresting a terrorist posing with a confederate battle flag under lincolns portrait in the halls of cogresss.

parks and rec has the liberal stain sorry i cant support

We can hate the police for shooting an unarmed man in the back 7 times AND for not arresting a terrorist posing with a confederate battle flag under lincolns portrait in the halls of cogresss.

― BrianB, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 6:54 PM (twenty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean u can, and u can ask a leopard to change its spots, whatever you want

xposts ah, gotcha lagoon. i agree, wanting the police to be as abusive toward the altrighters as they are toward BLM marchers is creepy and bad

but that's not what the everest person was saying. they went with "the impunity with which the alt right are allowed to protest and to commit property damage is something we should all have" which to me sounds like "this bullshit going on at the capitol is fine and in a better world it could happen everywhere without impunity"

I keep getting stuck on the thought that if the protesters back in June had been able to take over the White House, I totally would have supported that.

(and then later, trying to morph that argument into some sort of Alamo-situation for the movement to defund the police, but whatever)

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/iraq-launches-invasion-to-bring-democracy-to-america/

yeah sorry i didnt read the twitter thread looked dumb i was just musing

xposts ah, gotcha lagoon. i agree, wanting the police to be as abusive toward the altrighters as they are toward BLM marchers is creepy and bad

but that's not what the everest person was saying. they went with "the impunity with which the alt right are allowed to protest and to commit property damage is something we should all have" which to me sounds like "this bullshit going on at the capitol is fine and in a better world it could happen everywhere without impunity"

that poster is often quite funny tho if im thinking of the right person

it's ok i'm just a fucking wreck right now

*chugs*

xxp *raises hand*

bourbon and weed coming in for a save over here

@everest is fucking awesome and they make very good art and they're super smart! and lots of people i know follow them and "like" their tweets and stuff. that's why i weirdly decided to pick out their take (that i thought was hot and not good), because it was weird to read and then see lots of retweeting and liking. in response, the Discourse compelled me to believe that i needed to speak truth to a minor twitter power, publicly, but on another social media platform

bourbon and weed coming in for a save over here

along with coffee and water, these are my holy quadrant of substances

i get not loving police and cheering on the police to brutally attack protesters but what's the alternative when it comes to an attempt at an insurrection? this is hardly Bloomberg's windows, in that the property isn't what people are agitated about here. Live were put at risk, and in turn, democracy, as they interrupted a literal vote counting for the Presidency.

nobody gaf about the damn windows.

smoked my first bowl of the day! bummed i didn't do that earlier

ahaaaaa

YUP pic.twitter.com/PlODrjT5ge https://t.co/76A7HgwOhi

— Patrick Fenelon 🌹 (@Patrick_Fenelon) January 6, 2021

i don't really want police brutality and police shooting protesters to be the norm for both sides, but I do kinda want police to not shrug and go "hey that's off limits" when people storm the Capitol

x-post I'm all angry-high

.@Acosta: "I will tell you, Jake, I talked to a source, a GOP source close to the president who speaks with him regularly, and I take no pleasure in reporting this, but this source tells me that he believes the president is out of his mind." pic.twitter.com/Ld7r2hLnSH

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 6, 2021

lmao wow weird to think about

"i am pro-'people not being out of their minds' and i take no pleasure in reporting this"

Odds on a Bud Dwyer exit 10-1 and rising

they suspended his Twitter

This would be a nice night to get lifted but no idea who I’d ask on short notice

I guess my feeling is that I want police to leave peaceful protestors alone to peacefully protest regardless of which end of the political spectrum they're on but I'm pretty okay with Capitol police shooting terrorists when they forcefully enter the Capitol regardless of what their political leanings might be.

I've been meaning to stop drinking on weeknights but today might not be the day.

im in nancy pelosi office cookin up pic.twitter.com/W4IR8q6o8Y

— 🤍 J BLACCHAND 🦾 (@blaccmass) January 6, 2021