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

only good news i've heard today is that there's likely to be an all gas no brakes storm the capitol edition
i mean i got georgia last night and that was better but still

Love that Mondale clip.

PA

and here's PA, which Hawley is going to object to

hope he gets electrocuted by the microphone

Fuck him

My main reaction to today is to wonder if some aggrieved cracker is going to try to murder my kids

pic.twitter.com/dsTqw88etn

— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) January 7, 2021

re: the earlier discussion about whether there were swastikas, etc.:

pic.twitter.com/DxC4tL5pyS

— sean (@rameswaram) January 7, 2021

<3 DJP

This punk isn’t even going to defend his own shit?

FBI, i saw this one guy disappearing into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

someone promised him a rub 'n tug if he did it i guess

also it seems like they're not going to impeach him because they want to move on, so congratulations to the adults in the room.

Guess we know who the new official worst senator is.

Why not wait to see what other shit he can cause

and when you have Graham, Cotton, Cruz, and Blackburn to compete with, that's impressive.

fbi i found one

A West Virginia legislator streamed, then deleted, video of himself storming the capitol https://t.co/oPlBVQVKdO

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 7, 2021

after the debate on Philly happens, it's gonna be Vermont that pushes Biden over the 270 mark. lotta red states to get through.

Chris Cuomo always looks like a Scooby Doo character

posted a handful of these images to the rolling 2021 thread, some of them are absolutely jaw dropping
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/photos-capitol-building-protesters.html

http://i.imgur.com/K5UUIXG.png

idk why but the images of people scaling the wall really were some of the first to speed my heart rate up this afternoon. it just felt like it was out of an 80s Cold War paranoia movie, but it was real fuckin' life.

I feel shame for my rock-climbing advocacy.

i mean, if this fucking guy doesn't sum it up: cross-eyed on a couch in the seat of power, wearing a fucking fox skin on his head, a police vest on his chest, toting a shillelagh and a riot shield, no place to go, nothing to do, dumb and content as an ox in the field

http://i.imgur.com/8O4eLcV.png

I hate Lofgren’s blazer

Also White people need to be in jail

xxp it's an astonishingly classical framing; dipshit is in the pose of velazquez's pope

Mercifully short without the speeches, at least.

worst roxy music album cover ever

Excellent point, forks!

Senate votes down objection, PA is Biden's, but House is still doing their thing so mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My coping right now consists of edibles, wine and Anti Flag videos on YouTube.

there's a play to be written about this experience from the perspective of the kosplay kapitol krusaders themselves, where this whole escapade was simply about having the right stage to recreate their vision of the founding fathers in a one-time-only musical, kind of Hamilton-meets-Marat/Sade

yeah no

"an OANN special event"

https://i.imgur.com/NYUCLtA.jpg

i can't tell if the youtube live stream is actually live anymore

Yo Conor Lamb

man if only we had 4 years of exhibits to prepare us for this.

44 years.

(or at least 31 since he took out a newspaper ad calling for black teenagers to be murdered.) (29 since he made up a story about him foiling a mugging like Batman leaping out of his limo)

can we all please move on to the Seattle mayoral election now???

Cary Moon obviously deserves a do-over on the last term (and Durkan should be recalled instead of lame-ducking an entire year of her term), but Mike McGinn still seems to have better ideas and active civic engagement than anyone likely to actually run

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

Jello has not had anything to do with the band for 34 years, and with the business for 20 (since they sued him for not doing reunion tours or licensing music to ads)

Thanks sic, that’s what I thought. Just saw a bunch of people on Twitter conflating that tweet with Biafra himself.

Yeah, Lamb really went in. Glad he's in the house.

Apparently almost a fistfight after Lamb’s speech? Missed that.

In case you're wondering how things are going in the House, there was a minor scuffle between lawmakers. GOP Rep. Andy Harris and Dem Rep. Colin Allred almost got into a fistfight.

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) January 7, 2021

Well that’s just American as apple pie, wake me up when there’s a vicious caning

xpost quick reminder Allred was formerly a football player and Harris was not.

Kinzinger and Butler went in on this bullshit from the conservative angle

Lmao Mike Kelly is indicting the Republican Party in the name of supporting the opposition to the PA votes

Rewatched Lamb. The first shouts from GOP members came after Lamb said this of today's mob:

"For the most part, they walked in here free. A lot of them walked out free. And there wasn't a person watching at home who didn't know why that was: because of the way that they look."

— Julian Routh (@julianrouth) January 7, 2021

Men’s Warehouse saves the day again.

it's an absolute tragedy that more fascists weren't killed

apparently the woman shot in the throat by cops may have been actively retweeting Trump conspiracy theories at the moment of death, based on her Lin Wood / QAnon-filled timeline? still opposed to cop murder/death penalty, but this could be a precedent worth exploring as a deterrent.