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

What the hell is going on with that man's Xmas column

The constant parading of our country's defense and security poised as so outmatched and advanced yet 9/11 & 1/6 have proven that all that military/defense/police/security spending is an illusory house of cards.

Trump did 9/11

lol simon h yes, but i do think people forget these things while also internalizing them.

they can claim to be shocked by events (and not necessarily be lying) but also learn the lessons for what works and what's rewarded and what has consequences and adjust their behavior and ambitions and hopes accordingly.

I saw him dancing on a rooftop

as scocca says, lindsay et al. aspiring to a peaceful transfer of power are a bit fuckin late. this is literally a violent transfer of power (at best!) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/trump-coup-violence-capitol-national-guard.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/trump-self-pardon.html

Onion article ?

lol

At the end of the day, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy voted to object to both AZ and PA's electors after acknowledging multiple times to me there was no doubt as to Biden's victory.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 7, 2021

Some security expert on the radio brought up a good point: this was both houses of Congress in session, with the #2 & #3 in the same room... why were there not already tactical SWAT dudes right there on duty to begin with? The seemed woefully unprepared... if this was a trained bunch of commandos instead of a bunch of drunk, diabetic rednecks, it could've been a bloodbath.

FP'd for classism

can't wait for pence to get mccaind

Diabetic?

Stop othering these guys. Dudes are pretty solidly exurban middle class. The scary thing is they could live among you or you work with them, rub shoulders with them while shopping, etc.

Multiple European security officials told Insider that President Donald Trump appeared to have tacit support among US federal agencies responsible for securing the Capitol complex in Wednesday's coup attempt.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/some-among-america-s-military-allies-believe-trump-deliberately-attempted-a-coup-and-may-have-had-help-from-federal-law-enforcement-officials/ar-BB1cypbi

Boring otm, but also c'mon guys, be nice to the literal terrorists.

Calling them drunk is just a bridge too far after posts mocking Junior's coke habit.

Okay, I retract 'diabetic' to be replaced with 'jaundiced.' The dude with the rebel battle flag was fifty shades of yellow.

xpost that business insider article is soooooooo thin I can't believe they ran that

Rednecks are more likely to be exurban upper-middle class dweebs than anything else IMO.

can't wait for pence to get mccaind

looking foward to when we have the technology to transport Mike Pence to Hỏa Lò in 1967

Stop othering these guys. Dudes are pretty solidly exurban middle class. The scary thing is they could live among you or you work with them, rub shoulders with them while shopping, etc.

― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, January 7, 2021 4:44 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

seriously. if you want a fun time, go to https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?committee_id=C00580100&committee_id=C00694323&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020 and add your employer or your zip code.

can't wait for pence to get mccaind

I read this as "to get married"

my feeling from perusing the Trump donor list is that it's time to bully retirees like never before

missed this tidbit from yesterday:

The pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood, whose Twitter account was suspended Wednesday after he baselessly accused Pence of being a “child molester,” leaped quickly to the alternative social network Parler, where he urged Trump-supporting “patriots” to keep fighting, saying, “Almighty God is with you. TODAY IS OUR DAY.”

“Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST.” Wood wrote in a Parler post that has been directed toward user feeds nearly 3 million times.

That FEC link is interesting. I live in Oakland, not exactly Trump Country; so I see a handful of people making multiple contributions, sometimes more than once a week in November. Crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBp42536IhE

crazy footage

xp, i have a colleague who donated the maximum to trump during the primaries, after the primaries and *since the election*

once again people have short memories, probably I do too but mine at least goes as far back as the VP debate where pence was essentially trump, but hey, at least polite about being trump, right?

Keep hearing reports that Nancy and Chuck are just having the darnedest time reaching Pence. Is he just going to hide with his head down and the lights off for the next two weeks?

pence is such a fucking pussy, yes, he's going to lock himself up to avoid pissing trump off.

Lock me up! Lock me up!

Sworn officer of the court, attorney L. Lin Wood, needs to be disbarred asap.

Keep hearing reports that Nancy and Chuck are just having the darnedest time reaching Pence. Is he just going to hide with his head down and the lights off for the next two weeks?

Wasn't Lin Wood found to have donated to Dems several times, including Obama? That guy is a phony.

Nah, he just got boomer brain worms.

Yep, nothing is going to happen to Trump before the inauguration, so we all just need to mentally prepare for round two of this shit with very likely more well armed participants.

Huh.

!!!! US Capitol Police union statement: "We prioritized lives over property, leading people to safety. Not one Member of Congress or their staff was injured. Our officers did their jobs. Our leadership did not. Our Law Enforcement partners that assisted us were remarkable.”

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 7, 2021

Lin Wood has been advocating for Pence's execution for two days on both Twitter and Parler so I'd be surprised if he doesn't get completely disbarred and also charged with something soon. I'm sure if I said those things on social media I'd be in jail.

“Police union statement” is a synonym for “pre-shitted piece of toilet paper”

Here's the story if anyone cares.. I don't:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-trump-lawyer-lin-wood-donated-to-democrats-for-years/

Our officers did their jobs. Our leadership did not.

first sentence is self-serving. second sentence is a bit intriguing.

it's a police union statement. it is not intriguing. it is a lie. even the true bits are lies.

McEnany about to hold presser

xp - including the word "the". yeah, I get it.

STFU

(xxp) Is there some sort of time lag there, I saw it 5 minutes ago.

She mouthed pieties and left.

.@PressSec condemns the violent Trump mob, takes no questions, ends with this: "Those of us who are working in this building are working to ensure an orderly transition of power. Now it is time for America to unite."

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) January 7, 2021

fitting, the only time Trump ever mentioned coming together was the day after he won in 2016, so it's fitting the only other time he pays lip service to it is at the very end.

Hello, i wish all of these people a very get fucked and die

There’s no way trump wants people to unite

dollars to donuts Donald and another person have never ever once come together