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

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

guy is clearly super psychologically fucked up his whole life then becomes president... four years later very serious tv man "breaking news"

they suspended his Twitter

for 12 whole hours!

guy is clearly super psychologically fucked up his whole life then becomes president... four years later very serious tv man "breaking news"

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.

― Suffering from a Surfeit of Savoir Faire (Old Lunch), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:09 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

there is no such thing as peaceful protest that is copaganda

xp -- others have basically said what I was going to but I also don't think it's a wild edge case for the takeaway from this to be "all protests should be further criminalized"; biden in part campaigned on that.

Twitter saying permaban “next time”

or, rather, that the takeaway from this by lawmakers will be that. seems pretty likely to me

This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 7, 2021

the deletion of his most recent tweets has the effect of making his timeline look a lot saner

absolutely this incident will be used to further the police state by both sides of the isle

His defining feature is that he’s incredibly fucked up emotionally.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:11 PM (forty-seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

also a heaping dose of delusional narcissism

thanks for keeping us safe, @twittersafety!

i guess i'm just thinking of stuff like this, that seems to fall somewhere in the incredibly vast spectrum between "ACAB" and "i am in the hitler youth":

The police politely holding the doors open for insurrectionists leaving the Capitol building they invaded is actually pretty gutting. Just a reminder of who are considered citizens in America and that Black people were never meant to be considered so. https://t.co/3qQtJtCaMX

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 7, 2021

The irony is that this ransacking might actually expedite the vote tally... we'll see if the GOP keeps up the charade or just wants to go home.

if they keep the charade up i think i may lose my shit

i went on a liquor run earlier though, everything's gonna be fine

Trump finally got 50 FPs

they might want to think about updating these gimmick boxes to be a little bit tougher lol

Electoral college ballots rescued from the Senate floor. If our capable floor staff hadn’t grabbed them, they would have been burned by the mob. pic.twitter.com/2JCauUIlvg

— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) January 6, 2021

my precious

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.

― BrianB, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 6:54 PM (five minutes ago)

ok but this is a false dichotomy. lefty protestors have occupied statehouses too. when people protested scott walker gutting unions by occupying the wisconsin statehouse did you call for those ppl to be arrested? do you think they should have been arrested? beaten? gassed? is the mere act of holding a confederate flag in a statehouse mean that cops should be able to arrest you? i understand the impulse to say yes but understand the cynicism in the way republicans apply laws to democratic protestors. what flags or signs would then qualify you for arrest during a protest on govt grounds or in a govt building? is seeing alt right capitol occupiers arrested worth the repercussions on lefty protestors? none of this is theoretical. ron desantis wants to make it a felony to block roads but make it legal to hit protestors with cars. he wants to use racketeering laws to prosecute ppl who give money to protest organizations. ppl on the left who side w/ the police when the protestors are confederate flag waving insurrectionists are only inviting compounding force to be used against them or ppl they agree with in the future. what that person said about property destruction is a red herring but the rest of that thread totally has merit. it's absolutely true that liberals calling for arrests and tear gas on these protestors will lead to further retribution against protestors (aka leftists) bcuz the further retribution against protestors was already happening from lawmakers before today even happened. and now we're supposed to be encouraging police force? and think that it won't have any effect on future protests (again, by leftists). no thanks

Ha.. those boxes look like Tintin's luggage from 1951

A little late there guys but anyway. Read the whole thread.

As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy. https://t.co/k6OkjNG3bM

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 7, 2021

jordan otm

Keep an eye out for il Douché pivoting to the POTUS account.

I also don't think it's a wild edge case for the takeaway from this to be "all protests should be further criminalized"; biden in part campaigned on that.

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, January 7, 2021 12:12 AM (forty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah agreed, the surveillance and criminalization would be off the charts--the natural political response is to create additional legislation as a reaction and the embattled middle will happily legislate against its own left flank. Curfews similarly make every person into a wrong-doer for going home from work or going to work or being on their porch or picking up their kids and living life.

all the ppl in this thread being like "well obviously you arrest ppl who storm a statehouse" do remember this happening right? it was less than 10 years ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17wisconsin.html

MADISON, Wis. — As four game wardens awkwardly stood guard, protesters, scores deep, crushed into a corridor leading to the governor’s office here on Wednesday, their screams echoing through the Capitol: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”

Hmmm.

Text from a friend I worked with on the Hill. Chaos in McCarthy's office. pic.twitter.com/FLXOEDlwwp

— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) January 6, 2021

I didn’t see if this got posted earlier but ITV (UK TV news) was interviewing some of these guys after they got inside the building.

Watch @robertmooreitv's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DChttps://t.co/krCQf1uQbx pic.twitter.com/SiWbzF5Nzs

— ITV News (@itvnews) January 6, 2021

iow jordan otm

Looks like it was an officer that shot and killed the woman, who was unarmed.

ok but this is a false dichotomy. lefty protestors have occupied statehouses too. when people protested scott walker gutting unions by occupying the wisconsin statehouse did you call for those ppl to be arrested? do you think they should have been arrested? beaten? gassed? is the mere act of holding a confederate flag in a statehouse mean that cops should be able to arrest you? i understand the impulse to say yes but understand the cynicism in the way republicans apply laws to democratic protestors. what flags or signs would then qualify you for arrest during a protest on govt grounds or in a govt building? is seeing alt right capitol occupiers arrested worth the repercussions on lefty protestors?

for me it's a big NO on all of those questions. the thing i wanted to see, today, was the rioters being kept out of the building. not even arrested, certainly not physically harmed. just being kept out of the building. if Madison police would have guarded the statehouse and kept the protesters outside in a bullshit "free speech zone", i would have understood that.

feel like i'm being misunderstood also, but i also don't really make any coherent points so i get it

otm; the crux of the thing isn't that they're protesting in the capitol or breaking windows or whatever, but that they are doing so in an attempt to carry out a white supremacist coup

like, is expecting capitol police to keep rioters out of the capitol the same as "siding w/ the police"?

Jordan S. putting into words a lot of stuff that's been troubling me.

cops seemed to show who they are today afaict

He should be forced to delete all his tweets except for the ones about how Robert Pattinson’s dick smell

(in addition to the ones people mentioned, another recent example would be the people storming the Minneapolis police precinct -- do you think they should have been arrested?)

btw are there really leftists calling for tear gas? i must be following the wrong leftists

there's no doubt what side the cops were on today, and they must be held accountable