And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 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

what lag00n was saying about these people not liking a loser

pol is on another level right now pic.twitter.com/O5ALttHrzY

— Sturgeon's Law (@Sturgeons_Law) January 8, 2021

sorry I'm cracking up at Jewish sperm bank

Omg

God maybe don't share that garbage

Also Twitter user Mike Barthel is a former ilxor and was my RA at nerd camp when I was a teen, he is great.

Well.

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021

*pops champagne*

god it is so incredible to me the extent to which Donald Trump fucked this up. had he passed $2,000 checks there's a good chance he would've squeaked by just enough votes to win the Electoral College and been enshrined as the harbinger of permanent Republican rule but instead he's about to get impeached for insurrection the same week he singlehandedly cost Republicans the Senate while simultaneously getting his entire movement deplatformed as fast as possible

"oh we just got around to reading his tweets. turns out he sucks. our bad!"

Bwahahahaha

imagine if this could have happened 4 years ago

imagine all the people

Used to see his band playing around NYC

I thought they'd wait til he was out of office, but this works

Sorry mike Barthel xpost

Where will he rant and rage about being tossed off Twitter?

this is just so fucking GOOD

finally got 51'd damn

Barthel is one of the few (ex-)ILXors I've met! He is great.

Yes!

This is what Parler has been waiting for.

what a complete dumbass

it was the _close_ review that enabled them to make this timely decision

well done twitter! lol

Parler won't be much use -- Apple just a little earlier told them "Hey you know, you're in violation of your own supposed policies so you have 24 hours or we're kicking you off the Apple Store."

twitter waited to suspend him until the military promised not launch nukes at trump's behest

we'll see if the news channels have the spine to continue the deplatforming and not carry his bullshit

As that article about the "Turner Diaries" makes plain, the craziness Trump amped up in the past four years and the protection he extended to extremist groups won't be put back into the bottle any time soon and now that they've succeeded in exposing the vulnerability of the government to guerilla attack, their recruitment efforts have a HUGE propaganda win they can wave as a flag to rally around. This isn't over and Twitter, Apple and Facebook moving against them now is weak beer.

Trump can still send a presidential alert to everyone's phones right

what a complete dumbass

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, January 8, 2021 6:29 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahaahahaha yes!

They have a wonderful cafeteria at Twitter, I hate to see it annihilated and turned to ash

yes yes there is work to do but this truly requires some genuine celebration

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).

― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Friday, January 8, 2021 6:14 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely none of this shit wouldve happened if twitter and facebook had started banning people 5 years ago

The fucking accuracy

P.S. As a message board kid, it's hilarious to watch the actual president get permabanned. He's every poster who ever had 90,000 karma points and got axed after a 745 page thread called "here's what's wrong with this forum."

— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) January 8, 2021

god it is so incredible to me the extent to which Donald Trump fucked this up. had he passed $2,000 checks there's a good chance he would've squeaked by just enough votes to win the Electoral College and been enshrined as the harbinger of permanent Republican rule but instead he's about to get impeached for insurrection the same week he singlehandedly cost Republicans the Senate while simultaneously getting his entire movement deplatformed as fast as possible

― frogbs, Friday, January 8, 2021 6:24 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup

lmao, realdonaldtrump and gabneb posting in heaven

except instead of a clusterfuck thread we have a clusterfuck country

absolutely none of this shit wouldve happened if twitter and facebook had started banning people 5 years ago

at least we'd a lot less far down this road

This isn't over and Twitter, Apple and Facebook moving against them now is weak beer.

the fact that it *isn't* over is what makes it meaningful, however pathetically late in coming

enjoying the ban tweet add a thousand likes per second

absolutely none of this shit wouldve happened if twitter and facebook had started banning people 5 years ago

― lag∞n, Friday, January 8, 2021 6:35 PM (fifty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yep. gotta say it's completely wild watching all these tech companies finally treating this shit with the serious it deserves. just emphasizes the fact that they could've done it at any time over the past five years

sorry I'm cracking up at Jewish sperm bank

― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, January 8, 2021 6:17 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao credit where its due