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

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.

She retweeted this two days ago:

The President reinstates Death by Firing Squad , Guess What the US penalty for Treason Is ? DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD ! 2+2=4 last I checked

— JUAN Q SAVIN (@richardgibb8) January 4, 2021

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

― StanM, 7. tammikuuta 2021 8:14

I don't get this, who's the guy in the closeup supposed to be?

Nicholas Cage. Made to look like he’s stealing the Declaration of Independence like in the motion picture “National Treasure” during today’s chaos

Ah, ok, thanks!

Stop ffs

Wait...is this shit seriously not done yet?!?

It's done

Biden won for the 735th time

46 is a great number, so is 25

So Trump's got away with everything his entire life and now he's about to get away with inciting a mob of fascist morons to attack the heart of American democracy, one of whom got shot dead... because now is not the time for partisanship? Or something? Jesus Christ. Good lunck USA.

I keep thinking "What if this happened in the UK?" but I'd have to go back to James II to find a similar situation. Or fucking Perkin Warbeck or someone.

What's the deal with some of the white chuds wearing 'Blacks for Trump' t-shirts? Is that a thing?

MAGAs probably gonna turn on Trump now for giving up:

Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th," Trump said in the statement released overnight after Congress certified his defeat. "I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again."

So Trump's got away with everything his entire life and now he's about to get away with inciting a mob of fascist morons to attack the heart of American democracy, one of whom got shot dead... because now is not the time for partisanship? Or something? Jesus Christ. Good lunck USA.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, January 7, 2021 12:38 PM bookmarkflaglink

What's also interesting/concerning is that the people who can be seen as the active agents in this process of creating and delivering hegemonic bipartisanship are the people who were attempting to delay democracy. ie 'I remain concerned about (made-up) voting irregularities in a number of states, but agree now is the time to come together, so i will out of a sheer spirit of pragmatic diplomacy put these concerns to one side.'.

Biden won for the 735th time

I'm finally tired of winning (to coin a phrase).

Seriously tho I got some badly needed sleep and was relieved by the news that it's over.

But I will never be reconciled with how it transpired.

Not at fuckin' all

1/6/2021 is gonna be seared into ny brain forever

*my

speaking of "fucking," I flip thru channels a couple hours ago and hear Joe Scarborough say that word in a frenzy.

Is there any discussion in the US about reforming the office of the President itself? You know, from being George III with a few less powers to something less open to potential abuse?

.... that's House of Hanover, not House of Bush btw.

an electoral process where you win the election but then the loser retains power for months. lovely stuff

Presidents of both parties will not relinquish powers their predecessors bequeathed them.

I once worked on the Hill for a year and was in the Capitol daily. Security gave the appearance of being pretty tight: several checkpoints with metal detectors, police with guns acting aggressively towards absolutely everyone (ie, mostly tourists), etc. Watching these riotors waltzing around without a care in the world yesterday, with seemingly no security in sight, was a surreal experience. I guess the Capitol Police can go back to what they do best: yelling at foreign tourists who walk too close to the velvet rope.

I really hope we work double time at dismantling right wing paramilitary hate groups over the next four years.

on my last visit Capitol police yelled at me two blocks away for walking the wrong way on a one-way street.

I posted this picture earlier of the doors to the House steps, but now that it’s light out you can see the bullet holes and the stickers they put on the doors, which say “Fuck Antifa” pic.twitter.com/02A1xaQGfA

— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) January 7, 2021

clearly antifa put up these “fuck antifa” stickers to throw people off the scent

One of the things that I've kept coming back to is that the electoral process whose integrity these chucklefuck GOP congresspeople have challenged is the very electoral process that legitimizes their power. Like they are tacitly yet very forcefully prying open the question of whether or not they should have the positions they hold, on behalf of chucklefuck constituents who will eagerly seize upon that question if they feel so inclined. And just why would you do that unless you are profoundly, profoundly stupid. Trump is profoundly stupid but his challenges were the mindless act of a trapped rat with zero legitimate options open to him. What excuse do these other morons have?

Joe Scarborough to Capitol Police on @Morning_Joe :
"Why are you known as badasses around the Capitol...but then Trump supporters come in and you open the FUCKING DOORS for them." pic.twitter.com/jnuES5qKao

— Hollerella (@hollerella) January 7, 2021

Also, "American exceptionalism" ranks among our most poisonous myths, infecting both parties.

xxpost I mean if nothing else you'd think yesterday would've been a stark illustration of why they should pull back the reins on this shit ASAP, but apparently it wasn't?

if Joe was 20 years younger and still in the House he’d be trying to out-chud Gaetz

well, he was a proto-Gaetz in the '90s, from what I remember.

I can assure you that my departure from office is going to be very boring.

— Angela Merkel (@Queen_Europe) January 6, 2021

boom

This is going to the Taco Supreme Court

I got my second dose of the #COVID19 vaccine today and now I’m feeling some arm soreness and a massive disgust of seditious elected officials.

— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) January 7, 2021

on my last visit Capitol police yelled at me two blocks away for walking the wrong way on a one-way street.

had this same experience, disobeyed a DONT WALK sign on an empty street and had a CP officer literally run up to me from a block away and scream in my face. friend of mine who was a longtime hill staffer got physically ejected when he was arriving for work early one morning and they noticed his staff ID was expired by one day. he asked if he could go to his office and get some papers first and they were like "if you take another step you will be tazed sir"

i’m skeptical that “@Queen_Europe” is merkel’s legit account but you never know

I assume the real Merkel Twitter account is not called "Queen_Europe". :)