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

To be fair, I think that DJT video was shot before Trump even spoke

if it's that tent video at the rally, I don't understand...it's just those idiots backstage waiting for Trump to go speak

I mean there's a context and a tone.

(for me personally it's the bombs)

it will keep us together!

xp it's the same tone they've had for four years...and it's obv b4 the rioting. They're jsut dancing and staring at monitors showing a waiting crowd

wonder if the feds will find this guy who wore his lanyard to a coup

First comment HOF on lanyard-moron twitter thread: "Now who will transport The Ring ?"

because lol nothing matters we're all gonna die ?

Trump's actual speech is the smoking gun, there's nothing to "uncover"

What happened to Pelosi speaking? I thought she was supposed to speak at 1:00 DC time.

But then that's been the case all along with all of this shit xp

Oh, it's at 2:00 Eastern and her regular weekly press conference.

wonder if the feds will find this guy who wore his lanyard to a coup

He was terminated once he was discovered to be a 7-year-old with a fake beard.

xp it's the same tone they've had for four years...and it's obv b4 the rioting. They're jsut dancing and staring at monitors showing a waiting crowd

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, January 7, 2021 1:48 PM (four minutes ago)

ok if this is true that makes sense -- wasn't sure about the timing

lanyard guy's company's CFO responded to the thread in which he was outed and said they put him on admin leave for now while 'investigation' takes place.

Dude's a telemarketer... they'll find somebody else.

That company's statement, shared above, literally says he was "terminated for cause".

wow Biben strong right now

"BLM would have been treated very, very differently"

tbh I only watched that video to see which "Gloria" they were blasting. Laura Branigan, Them, U2, Vivaldi?

my bad i misread caek and thought that was a post about some other protester

Patti Smith?

Chao will be leaving office on the 11th, so Trump still has time to spitefully fire her.

it blows my fucking mind that the head of the chicago police union is out there sticking up for the people who BEAT AND TASED COPS AND SENT SEVERAL TO THE HOSPITAL

These people are cowards

And they’re afraid of a loser

Who is ignorant, ugly, disliked and bizarre. I’ll never get it.

The head of the Chicago police union knows who he protects and serves.

Fucking right wing #NeverTrumpers want him impeached.

So, we call on the House to impeach President Trump. We call on the Senate to convict him and to disqualify him from holding “any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States.”

We also recognize that the 25th Amendment permits the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to remove the president if they deem him “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” If those closest to the president in good faith find that he has become so unmoored from reality that he cannot discharge his duties, as all outward indications would suggest, then they have an obligation to act.

These measures are difficult. They require political courage. Because they require courage, they may be unlikely. But how much violence and chaos must our nation endure before we understand that cowardice has a cost? Trump has abused his office. He has violated the public trust. And now he has incited a violent attack on the Capitol and Congress. He must be removed.

The head of the Chicago police union knows who he protects and serves.

yup

A few short years ago, Capitol Police arrested Rev. Raphael Warnock for praying in the rotunda in protest of GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act https://t.co/bCEmBEws3k pic.twitter.com/M1N3JQRAKc

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 7, 2021

If those closest to the president in good faith

Prerequisite for getting close to him would preclude being able to make good faith judgments.

lol "Trump" and "faith"

"BLM would have been treated very, very differently"

pom otm

Like I'm sorry y'all, all this shock over police not doing more during the event itself or more loudly condemning it now is WILLFULLY IGNORING the history of policing in the US.

Like I'm sorry y'all, all this shock over police not doing more during the event itself or more loudly condemning it now is WILLFULLY IGNORING the history of policing in the US.

They shot a woman idk

she wants to run down the clock

PELOSI calling for 25th Amendment TO REMOVE TRUMP:

"If the vice president and the cabinet do not act the congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment," she says

— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) January 7, 2021

The head of the Chicago police union, like the head of I suspect many police unions, is a notorious asshole. Less than a month ago he was being threatened with removal for predictably horrible social media posts. Obviously he's still there but I don't think the threat of removal is gone.

I don’t think more brutality would have been good for the nation. I understand the double standard, but still.

It's Chicago, he's not going anywhere. Refer to one (1) s3cond c1ty c0p blog and see how deep the rot has set in.

he'll continue being there. Lori Lightfoot and CPD are makeout partners

I don’t think more brutality would have been good for the nation. I understand the double standard, but still.

― treeship., Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:27 PM (forty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i guarantee that it not table's point.

Ah, cleanup.

At Facebook's all hands meeting happening right now, Mark Zuckerberg called yesterday's event's "an insurrection." He says he is appalled. He mentions that he is ashamed at how white rioters were treated versus Black protestors earlier this year. This thread will follow the call.

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) January 7, 2021

Say what you will about Biden, a POTUS who spells it out is already a step up. It’s not enough by any stretch of the imagination, but I’ll take this over the latest alternative.
― pomenitul, Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:20 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, while I do not like Biden at all, while this may be obvious to most of us here (and obviously most Black people as well), it is maybe less obvious to a lot of people who can still be convinced, and given the uptick in support for the protests last summer I do think there are people who still can

Nancy Pelosi says she has received a resignation notice from the House Sergeant-at-Arms.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 7, 2021

Oh, I don't expect that cop union dickhead to go anywhere, just letting people outside Chicago know that he's a notorious asshole.

A big mystery of the past 4 years is why so many of the GOP assholes ever put up with Trump. The removal of Trump would have meant (and maybe still will) mean ... the installation of Pence, a staunch conservative who would have pushed for much of the same bullshit. Sure, a chunk of the GOP clearly approved of and wanted the worst from Trump, but a bigger chunk would presumably have been fine with Pence for a couple of years. Profiles in lack of courage, yes, but the lunatic constituents that were all in for Trump are not going anywhere, so it's hard to believe they won't be even bigger pussies as the literal opposition party.

schumer announced he was going to fire the sergeant at arms on inauguration day, so he put his 2 weeks in

(and yeah, why didn't they realize that earlier, etc. but people jumping off the blue-lives-matter bandwagon seems like a net positive)

schumer announced he was going to fire the sergeant at arms on inauguration day, so he put his 2 weeks in

― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:33 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

there are two.

I still want to know how Pence has/had the authority to call in the national guard.