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

like dc has infinite police why not just use them

just move the inauguration to black lives matter plaza, you'll be set

just do it on fuckin Zoom

Meanwhile in the House, Republicans are voting nearly two-to-one to reject Arizona's election result

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) January 7, 2021

smdh

79 YEA, 50 NAY, among GOP

jfc

Lol i would *love* if we could start dropping in classic ilx clusterfucks here

The moment may have passed but I am little sad that y'all didn't play some of the greatest hits. Stuff like "why is Lindsey Graham so bad & hated," "so not gonna hawley," and "barr say hi to me."

I don't have a Marissa or Pamplemousse joke yet but I'm working on those.

I think these people should be thrown out of the country

into the ocean

at the risk of repeating myself it’s frankly bizarre that we are just carrying on with what chris hayes called a “decrepit proceduralism” in the face of an obviously calamity whose perpetrator is certainly plotting his next move, no senator is demanding hawley or cruz tender their resignation, it’s insane!

What is happening?

Thank you @SenatorRomney and @EvanMcMullin Mitt cares about the the USA. pic.twitter.com/9YGslzvCRp

— Dead Kennedys (@DeadKennedys) January 7, 2021

Bedtime for Democracy

guess i'm glad he recovered from getting curb jobbed in the airport last night by that q tah person

you didn't post the best part

wtf how are we more punk than you https://t.co/6wCKgodrKr

— notfx (@Eve6) January 7, 2021

Today kind of crushed me. I just don't see this country being even the semi-functioning plutocracy it's been for the last 20 years or whatever going forward.

Cool, so now you know how I felt when Trump won

Maybe the Eve 6 guy and everyone dunking on Jello about that are primarily mad at Mitt and Evan for criticizing Trump.

Dead Kennedys are used to jumping figureheads in the street

on the other hand, maybe not xp

Does Jello even have anything to do with the Dead Kennedys at this point?

idk

nah

The woman identified as the person killed in DC today, Ashli Babbitt, appears to have had a Twitter feed totally consumed with conspiracy theories and QAnon content. pic.twitter.com/1DDnw58Koi

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) January 7, 2021

didnt even think of this

The natsec/infosec implications of the coup attempt are staggering - not just in Pelosi's office.

They'll need to assume all systems and physical files were compromised, and catalog what of each was stolen, altered or destroyed

— Joe Uchill (@JoeUchill) January 7, 2021

The only thing that could beat all for me right now is if the Senate came out on to the Capitol steps tonight, hand-in-hand, and sang God Bless America" again.

That''d would signal that I've hit my peak and that I'm ready to drink my orange juice and settle in for this trip to fade out.

xpost i was kinda wondering about that

wait at what point did the q story turn into "epstein is actually alive"

the Q Story is basically like a communal fan fiction that people keep logging into and adding their own flavor onto

xxp -- I am somewhat worried about that but realistically speaking, based on past "hacks" of elected officials, they wouldn't even need to do that, just answer a security question or something

(plus the kinds of people who would spew footage of their face everywhere while storming the capitol don't really seem like infosec people)

I think Lin Wood was rambling recently about Epstein being alive.

yeah he said he had the documents

cant be doing coups when youre 75 with a heart condition people

WASHINGTON (AP) — DC Police: 4 people died as Trump supporters occupied Capitol; 1 woman shot by police, 3 in medical emergencies.

— Mike Balsamo (@MikeBalsamo1) January 7, 2021

as good a time as any to repost this https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/17/dutch-trump-twitter-password-hack/

i hate to praise the guy but Romney's speech was pretty good

thread on the infosec thing from a USDS person. not good!

So much this. A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for infosec.

On the off-chance that any of my followers are involved in this -- I do have some experience in scenarios like this and would be happy to help. If I can be of assistance hit me up. https://t.co/DzTxUWZunR

— jacobian (@jacobian) January 7, 2021

if romney didn't say "send me articles of impeachment and i will vote yes" i don't want to hear about it.

but what about her emails

where are the tax returns?

yeah, to be clear, my post wasn't "this won't happen," more "this could definitely happen, but some of it could have happened for a while"

from Vanity Fair:

As the violent mob incited by President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, some West Wing staffers panicked that they were possibly becoming participants in a coup to overthrow the government. “What do I do? Resign?” one nervous White House staffer asked a friend on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after news broke that a woman had been shot and killed inside the Capitol. The West Wing staffer told the friend that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone was urging White House officials not to speak to Trump or enable his coup attempt in any way, so they could reduce the chance they could be prosecuted for treason under the Sedition Act. “They’re being told to stay away from Trump,” the friend said. The White House declined to comment.

Cipollone’s purported concern that Trump was committing treason––a federal crime––illustrates the chaos and fear of Wednesday’s unprecedented events. At least one staffer isn’t waiting to flee the ship. On Wednesday night, CNN reported that Stephanie Grisham, the former White House communications director and Melania Trump’s current chief of staff, resigned over the Trump-inspired riot. As staff quit or steer clear, Trump is increasingly isolated and alone. According to a person close to the White House, Trump refused to take calls on Wednesday from business leaders who wanted him to call off the insurrectionists. A former West Wing staffer said Republicans were texting and calling Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to lobby him to intervene, but Meadows wasn’t answering.

In recent days, as Trump’s bid to overturn the election became increasingly desperate, he expressed anarchist comments in private, a second Republican close to the White House told me. The Republican said Trump told people that he wanted David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to lose the Georgia Senate runoff election as a way of punishing them and Mitch McConnell. “Trump told people he is really angry that the senators and McConnell hadn’t stood up for him to challenge the election. He’s happy they lost.” According to the Republican, Trump has said he’ll be the most dominant force in Republican politics if there’s no party leadership.

Other Republicans I spoke to on Wednesday echoed the view that Trump wants to blow things up on his way out the door. “He’ll want to burn the whole thing down,” a Republican strategist said. “Trump doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself.”

Tonight, there was a sense that the ground had shifted. Even Stephen Miller told one person close to the White House that it was a terrible day. Twitter finally suspended Trump’s account—at least for 12 hours. And the immediate question facing Republicans became whether the violent scene today merits them invoking the 25th Amendment and removing Trump from office. The provision in the Constitution requires the vice president to secure support from the majority of the Cabinet or Congress. According to a D.C. strategist close to the White House, some prominent Republicans are lobbying Mike Pence to greenlight the process. “Pence has to initiate it,” the strategist said. Republicans I spoke to were doubtful Pence would take the extraordinary step given his longtime fealty to Trump––even in the face of being humiliated. “Maybe if Trump calls for another protest, then it’s possible,” the former West Wing official said.

No matter what happens in the next 13 days, Trump has set himself up for perpetual warfare with a Republican Party that is, finally, willing to confront his destructive authoritarianism. “Everyone is blaming Trump for Georgia,” the Republican strategist said. “When Trump took office, we had the White House and both branches of Congress. Now we have nothing. He inherited a Lamborghini and treated it like a lawn mower.”

play where's WAldo and find the secret Trump phrase!

(also admittedly much of that thread had not occurred to me)

xp

As staff quit or steer clear, Trump is increasingly isolated and alone.

how long exactly has this been increasing

"anarchist comments" ffs

lol katherine found the secret Trump phrase first!

“Now we have nothing. He inherited a Lamborghini and treated it like a lawn mower.”

these poor people how could they have known except by his entire life story that he is shit midas

When Trump is arrested may I suggest he should be kept... in an isolation cell?

xpost "Oh my god, why did you let him wear my suit? Fuck!"

rating today in America on a 10 point scale, 1 being terrible, 10 being amazing, today is hereby rated "Tubgirl"

lololol

Here is the full voicemail Rudy Giuliani thought he was leaving for Tommy Tuberville tonight. He left it on another Senator’s phone. This was after the attack on the Capitol! pic.twitter.com/gGkGpiT5Rg

— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) January 7, 2021

Hah, yeah, the VF piece has both "increasingly isolated" AND "increasingly desperate."