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

I just saw that Murkowski didn't just ask Asshole to resign, she threatened to change parties if the GOP didn't change, too.

In a 50-50 Senate, that's an effective threat.

the fact that they were physically threatened makes this one a little different, because they are monsters who can only think of themselves

EXACTLY

i need to find that one post i make every year or few months or so, about how conservatives are incapable of showing empathy for anything unless it directly affects them or their children

God Bless Amarinara

I just saw that Murkowski didn't just ask Asshole to resign, she threatened to change parties if the GOP didn't change, too.

can you please provide a source for that kind of thing, that seems huge

just like meghan mccain realizing we need parental leave right after she had a baby

links are very underrated, on the internet

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that Donald Trump should resign the presidency immediately and that if the Republican Party cannot separate itself from Trump, she isn’t certain she has a future in ithttps://t.co/962koLIzt2

— Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) January 8, 2021

interview w the guy who had the prescient twitter thread

'They had a map of the tunnels [in the basement of the Capitol], and they were talking about how they're going to be able to stop Congress from leaving. They imagined that this was the day there were going to be mass executions of Congressmen.'https://t.co/qIjNYN4Kqd

— Leland #StayHome 🏡 #ThankYouGeorgia!🍑 (@daft_editor) January 8, 2021

xp
or any number of republicans bravely evolving to "i guess i won't actively fight against gay people, sometimes" after their son comes out

murkowski more likely to go independent than become a dem, but anything helps

xp thanks josh!

what's sad is that i was just getting to the part where she was talking about potentially becoming an Independent again, and then the paywall thing came up. i didn't see her mention anything about being a Democrat, though - she might be Independent but still vote with Republicans on all the same things

as i say, ted lieu is a grifter, but the other author of the draft impeachment bill that is now circulating is raskin.

raskin's son committed suicide on new year's eve (https://repraskin.medium.com/statement-of-congressman-jamie-raskin-and-sarah-bloom-raskin-on-the-remarkable-life-of-tommy-raskin-f93b0bb5d184), and he'd brought his other children to the chamber to observe proceedings on wednesday. they were separated when the chamber was evacuated.

i'm totally fine with him taking things personally.

Yeah, I guess she just threatened to leave the party, one way or another.

Hey, do you all think dickheads like Stephen Miller et al. realize that when this shit is over they don't get free security for the rest of their life? Or, for that matter, that that will likely need security?

murkowski is also able to become an independent with negligible risk because of the way alaska runs its primaries

Alaskans passed a top-four ranked choice voting system this year, and it’ll be implemented when Murkowski runs in 2022. Alaska Republicans can’t really threaten to primary her. https://t.co/aA6UW5EHrZ

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 8, 2021

Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.

nothing bad will come of this I'm sure

― marg bar āmrikā (||||||||), Friday, January 8, 2021 2:02 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

While this is of course alarming for reasons we know already, the new article going around with these statements is not recent. It is from November, and is also quoted on the Biden website.

Still doesn't inspire confidence, but...

Hey, do you all think dickheads like Stephen Miller et al. realize that when this shit is over they don't get free security for the rest of their life? Or, for that matter, that that will likely need security?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, January 8, 2021 5:19 PM (twenty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

succesfully impeached presidents don't get secret service protection!

Removed, you mean.

saluting wildly

QAnon influencers who haven't been banned yet are literally saying their goodbyes as they anticipate the hammer coming down. pic.twitter.com/sZWNn6kN5e

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) January 8, 2021

REAL IRELAND

Nothing can prepare you for the shot of Donie’s Irish parents, just beaming in their little town about their brave journalist son https://t.co/eVQw4AIYfp

— Emily Gaudette (@emilygmonster) January 8, 2021

btw the trump alert account is wild right now rudy followed a lot of qanon people https://twitter.com/TrumpsAlert

Is Trump Alert like Jerk Alert from the Goonies?

kinda lol its a good account if you want to get a taste of the other side but not too much

caity's thread of local news is extreme schadenfreude

This is why we stan local news! https://t.co/8uR9jpp6q6

— Caity Weaver (@caityweaver) January 7, 2021

it's good to see Co Kerry getting put on the map!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErPXDKaVQAAzQgh?format=jpg&name=large

From his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk to an Arkansas jail. Here's a mug shot of Richard Barnett, who was arrested this morning and is now facing federal charges pic.twitter.com/rpSJ3BvyAm

— Reena Roy (@reenaroy) January 8, 2021

Phew, shaving almost saved him!

wld be cool to see the sociopath jack get the boot

“Employees also requested an investigation into the past several years of corporate actions that led to Twitter’s role in the insurrection.” https://t.co/I8kDZgpmti

— Jacqui Cheng, PhD Blogger School of Hard Knocks (@ejacqui) January 8, 2021

But you can't spell jackboots without the.. never mind.

love and fascists
love and fascists

Every time I see a Q Magat sign off with that "Where we go one we go all" I want to respond with the secret password from Fred Flintstone's Loyal Order of Water Buffalo: "Ack Acka Dack! Dack Dacka Ack!"

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/af/e5/b4afe5f96da4870a423ca612e8f7b593.gif

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/riot-on-the-hill

Murkowski survived after a primary loss years ago. She's made clear she's not afraid of McConnell

Oh darn

Twitter has banned pro-Trump cartoonist Ben Garrison pic.twitter.com/kIwNDnllkg

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 8, 2021

good ultra right rabbit hole for those interested in such things

'The Turner Diaries' didn't just inspire the Capitol attack. It warns us what might be next https://t.co/J98uqFfsdZ

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) January 8, 2021

Via a hoos on Twitter

Bus ads up looking for tips about the suspects from 1/6 pic.twitter.com/aeGIu7Yi7t

— Mike Barthel (@michaelbarthel) January 8, 2021

thought it was weird when Murk didn’t vote in favor of removal last year.

"Apple has given Parler, the social network favored by conservatives and extremists, an ultimatum to implement a full moderation plan of its platform within the next 24 hours or face expulsion from the App store." https://t.co/RUXNlW4Qjl

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 8, 2021

wow

apparently its getting pretty rowdy over there

UPDATE: The calls for violence over on Parler are getting much, much worse.

There are now open calls for the murder of police officers and planning for violence on January 20th

This obviously severely violates the law, much less the @AppStore and @GooglePlay rules.#PullParler pic.twitter.com/jNyYhxbBNs

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) January 8, 2021

Verily the reckoning is upon us.

thought it was weird when Murk didn’t vote in favor of removal last year.

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, January 8, 2021 5:59 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

she likes the judges and the energy policy. she just doesn't like him or mcconnell.

"However, the police are NOT Our enemy", I guess some truth buried in the madness.

re Apple: the lone, faint silver lining to capital's primacy...its worst perpetrators need shit to not *completely* fall apart

lmaoooo

pic.twitter.com/QyqGKycn0W

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) January 8, 2021

I have some foreboding that a lot of calculations being made rn are still from a place of normalcy, But something was definitely amiss the other day. Security failed because their will to be the enforcers seemed compromised. If the rumoured armed mass militias actually materialize on Inauguration Day, with Trump safely elsewhere, what is the confidence that all enforcement that day will have a different level of will and absence of “sympathies” to escalate appropriately, to do whatever it takes to shut it down? People tagging FBI and notables on posts to alert them on Twitter etc. like it’s all going to make the usual difference that it *should*.
I’m not sure I’m liking my math on this.

she likes the judges and the energy policy. she just doesn't like him or mcconnell.

This suggests that bringing impeachment directly to the floor, without any committee activity, is on the table. It would move on a very fast track. https://t.co/ZR5qrxuJC7

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 8, 2021

This kind of simultaneous pushback from a multitude of entities, while welcome, might have prevented a whole lot of shit had it come way way way way way way sooner (instead of everyone being all 'oh, you alt-right rascals! you're incorrigible!' for YEARS).

maybe Capitol security could be farmed out to a private firm. Maybe a newly chastened Academi (x Blackwater) can get it, as part of a compromise bill that gets direct stim checks in the hands of most Americans