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

god that makes me angry. people were forced by threat of life and limb into an enclosed space with these fuckers xxxp

Among the terrible things I heard yesterday when Linda Chavez called in to MSNBC: she's trying to hide with fellow House members, many of whom refused to wear masks in closed quarters, requiring her to leave when shooting still going on.

yes she went to a less secure room because those fuckwits

lol america

Mick Mulvaney to CNBC: "Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they're worried the President might put someone worse in.” But I’ve talked to WH officials who chose to stay because they don’t want to lose their health insurance.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 7, 2021

lol

welcome to the panoptigan. they wasted no time...save yourselves friends, cancel me now and turn me in before they come for you

— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) January 7, 2021

truly the greatest nation in history

Is it a panoptigan when it’s your own posts

you put Pence in for a week and his only job is pardons

welcome to the panoptigan.

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I like how Mulveney implies that there couldn't be anyone worse than him

welcome to the
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they wasted no time...save yourselves friends, cancel me now and turn me in before they come for you

‘welcome to the panoptigan’: snatch those dn stocks before it’s too late.

dipshit

Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC on 25th amendment: "I do not believe that’s appropriate at this point. I'm looking for a peaceful transfer of power." pic.twitter.com/Ts6Xs0kpLD

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 7, 2021

first they came for the streamers...

Twitch says Trump's channel has been disabled indefinitely

— BNO News (@BNONews) January 7, 2021

I don't find pangolins appetizing in any way, shape, or form

Have you tried them fried?

at what time does his twitter ban end today?

Breaking NYT: Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself in the final days of his presidency, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.https://t.co/lUDnG1sglV

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 7, 2021

ok some (i swear) non contradictory thoughts. there is of course intense argument about all this but i'm struck by a few things at once:

Ashli Babbitt, the q-addled woman who was shot breaching a door in the capital, should not have been shot. it should not have come to that at all

i can't mourn it because that part of my psyche is completely cauterized at this point, and i don't think movements like that end except in blood, frankly. yes yes, she fucked around and found out. but the instant glee and throwing the empty term "terrorist" around is making me a little uneasy. the War on Terror has wrecked everyone's brains

all of the lavish "less lethal" violent means that the many, many LE and security agencies in DC have at their disposal -- all the shit we saw all summer -- were totally absent. they can physically control central DC corner by corner if they want to. morning-after claims from law enforcement that they didn't see this coming are lies, and grounds for a complete reorganization

BLM/protestors have been yelling for years now that cops exist to maintain a given social order by violence -- and this lesson is only now being learned by the absolute worst people on the right. that little nazi pissant Fuentes tweeted "fuck the police" yesterday. cliven-bundyism will grow.

THAT SAID - protecting elected officials from an insurrection that is literally banging down the door *is* for sure a justifiable use of lethal police power. the question has to be, why did they only leave themselves their last resort? you all know why!

at what time does his twitter ban end today?

Supposedly about an hour ago.

I know he's slime, and he shouldn't even be on air, etc., but John Bolton just gave a pretty reasonable explanation on CNN of why the 25th is a risky idea. Basically, one side draws up papers saying you're not fit to stay in office, Trump replies you're wrong, I'm fine, other side says no you're not, then they have 21 days in which the matter goes before congress. And for those 21 days, it's not clear who's in power, because there's no way Trump would step aside. I totally agree that getting Trump out of there asap is the best--safest and most just--course of action, but that explanation, if accurate, gives me pause on the 25th.

at what time does his twitter ban end today?

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:14 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc from what I read, his ban was slated to end after twelve hours contingent upon his deletion of yesterday's offending tweets but would remain in place otherwise. So I assume it will remain in place.

Breaking NYT: Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself in the final days of his presidency

how is this "breaking" when he has been talking about it for years

The tweets were removed

It broke the NYT, that's why.

how is it 'broken' when it has been broken for years

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

― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, January 7, 2021 11:25 AM (yesterday)

honestly he could just do this and rebrand to tweeting as though he were never president, a rump of chuds would go along with it and lose all interest in coups or politics

goole otm

He should do an amnesia thing and pretend he doesn’t remember anything before january 1, 2015. Only move

Ashli Babbitt, the q-addled woman who was shot breaching a door in the capital, should not have been shot. it should not have come to that at all

THAT SAID - protecting elected officials from an insurrection that is literally banging down the door *is* for sure a justifiable use of lethal police power. the question has to be, why did they only leave themselves their last resort? you all know why!

― goole, Thursday, January 7, 2021 3:16 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i watched the video and a bizarre and confounding detail is there were cops standing right behind her while she was trying to break down the door, you cant actually see what she was doing the camera doesnt pan until after shes hit but the only way that shooting wouldve been justified imo is if she hada gun out cause there was still a glass panel door and a bunch of stuff barricaded in between the shooter and her when he fired

i was a bit confused by that as well - the cops being right behind her

more than a bit

clearly no communication between the two groups of cops which contributed to the situation looking much worse from the shooters perspective than it prob actually was

yes, the cops (heavily armed) doing jack

this is cool

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/congressional-repeal-act-trump-democrats.amp?__twitter_impression=true

I do not have the emotional capacity or the mental reserves to spend any time thinking about the death of Ashli Babbitt

Ex-Senator John Danforth, Republican of Missouri, today told @tonymess about Hawley, "Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 7, 2021

i was under the impression those were secret service officers and Pence and Pelosi were behind that door at the time still

yeah idk abt any of that

DJP otm though it doesn't matter it was tragic

I don't think an elected official's life is worth more than mine or yours, and find that opinion abhorrent.

where is my secret service detail than?

NEW details in SELF PARDON story: Trump appeared to aides to enjoy watching t.v. scenes of Capitol siege. WH top lawyer warned him he could face legal exposure for the riot given he had urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight.” w/@maggieNYT https://t.co/ebeJrQEAER

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) January 7, 2021

if i were trump id be thinking abt negotiating a resignation for pardon deal but that might be too much for his pride

I do not have the emotional capacity or the mental reserves to spend any time thinking about the death of Ashli Babbitt

― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:33 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh believe me my first and strongest reaction was disgust that more of that crowd hadn't suffered similarly

Babbitt was ex-military and was awarded the Iraq Campaign Medal. Surprise, surprise.

there is a pretty strict standard for incitement that I doubt trump’s behavior, reprehensible as it was, meets

Yeah I mean, telling them to march to the Capitol and fight is something we all say.

NEW details on my LATEST VISIT to the BATHROOM

I don't think an elected official's life is worth more than mine or yours, and find that opinion abhorrent.

― Pere Legume (the table is the table), Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:35 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well yeah but the contradiction is that the location of legitimate power and its legal continuity (if you think such a thing exists) resides in the physical persons elected to have it!

the people storming the doors knew this, that was the whole point. they were trying to physically prevent the certification of electoral votes

there is still a weird inescapable whiff of royalism in the practice of "representation" i guess