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

(Sorry, I know that’s not helpful. It’s all just grinding me down today.)

it is exhausting lol

yo clemenza I flagged your post, fuck you

how fucking dare you sit in Canada and wring your hands in concern trolling nonsense

can we rename the thread to ORANGE MAN BANNED

You guys this year is only EIGHT DAYS OLD

NEWS —> McConnell sends memo to GOP senators outlining how an impeachment trial would work if the House goes thru. In essence, McConnell explains how an impeachment trial would consume the first days of Biden’s presidency. Memo exclusively obtained by WaPo https://t.co/q2f2Quum1Z pic.twitter.com/SAkVVsqPvb

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 9, 2021

My boss sent out email mentioning the GA phone call was Sunday. Like 5 days ago Sunday. Blew my mind.

As I often do, sleeve, I have to ask if you're for real. Things like free speech are actually an issue outside of your country, I believe.

ahhhh lmao

What happened to POTUS?

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) January 9, 2021

It’s crazy how even incredibly important memos like that are formatted like boomer emails, with certain words emphasized for no particular reason

So if (IF) Trump drops dead now do they still do a state funeral?

sorry but i lol'd at "how dare you sit in canada"

tbf the border is closed

I think if he does die we proceed with the Spontaneous Global Holiday plan

As I often do, sleeve, I have to ask if you're for real. Things like free speech are actually an issue outside of your country, I believe.

― clemenza, Saturday, January 9, 2021 2:22 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ftr i also fp'ed you and yes i'm real, fuck off.

i'm so sorry if this was posted already

"Coming up: There was a blue check tweet today that I lost my lifetime pasta card at Olive Garden. We've looked into it, we'll tell you what that's about" pic.twitter.com/upMKwtgaEV

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 9, 2021

i'm not sorry actually. it's art

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/RbMFVcp.png

trump campaign account, no doubt about to get nuked too

Honestly, can I get some backup here? I mean, the vitriol of map and sleeve baffles me in light of my post above. And I'm not the only subjected to their hostility. (And no, I haven't flagged either, and don't plan to.)

emotions are high in the usa babey!

I definitely understand and respect that. They have kind of track record, though.

I’m not sure why everyone is swinging so hard at each other - not just today, but these last few months. Tensions are high but, jfc, we’re all on the same side more or less and we’re adults. It might behoove a few of us to step away from the phone or laptop when the desire to electronically punch someone’s lights out intensifies.

busy night for the mods

Honestly, can I get some backup here?

Nah, dude, that post was treeship-level big-eyed-babyism. Twitter is a private company, they can ban whoever they want. If the platform is free, you are the product being sold. When DJT became a liability, they cut him loose, the only bad thing about it was that it took them at least five years too long to do it. They should have banned him the day he went birther. They should have banned every Nazi account the minute they popped up. It's still a shit platform, but it's marginally less shitty now. You were wrong.

Some of this makes Morbs’ attacks look positively quaint.

N.B. I didn't FP calzino for his dumb opinion.

Raymond I apologize in advance and I hear what you are saying but the dude was way out of line

clemenza this is not the appropriate place to mull over your "conflicted" thoughts about one of the most important victories to happen since this nightmare started, once again I say fuck you and GTFO this thread

Another one. The Trump campaign’s @Twitter account has also been suspended, after tweeting out the president’s most recent statement 👇 pic.twitter.com/wiHgJGCL9F

— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) January 9, 2021

*cue more clemenza handwringing*

treeship-level big-eyed-babyism

It's never a good dis unless you personalize it by dragging in specific ilxors who weren't even involved, just to take needless swipe at them.

For what it's worth, seeing as Raymond just posted...I paused about posting my thoughts on the Twitter ban above, because I hate been subjected to the kind of ambush I sometimes get from sleeve and map (who sometimes seem to operate like a tag-team). But I posted, in part because of not posting the other day after Chuck Schumer's electoral-vote speech, which, while I'm not generally a fan of Schumer, I thought was quite good. But I didn't, anticipating how that would be greeted. And I was happy when Raymond posted what I backed away from posting. So tonight I went ahead and posted.

Lol @ way out of line

sometimes it's about realizing that no one else wants to have the conversation you want to have

I'm dying at this lmao pic.twitter.com/ZBmXckRsyC

— no time to bri (@Hey_Brian) January 8, 2021

sometimes it's about realizing that no one else wants to have the conversation you want to have

― call all destroyer

THIS

There are really only two ways to manage something like social media and still have a functioning democracy, and those are moderation or regulation. What they’re doing now is moderation, and I think it’s by far the better option if they can make it halfway work.

Gotta let the rageposters ragepost clem, it us tbf the US politics thread

yikes

Just a heads up for any folks considering heading to Telegram. Here’s your welcoming committee ⤵️⤵️. They’re not nice. You won’t like it there. They don’t like you. And they are absolutely using the platform to plan things that will land you in prison. pic.twitter.com/RhN97Rr4BV

— Hilary Sargent (@lilsarg) January 9, 2021

honestly this is already way way too funny

pic.twitter.com/TqNno02yRs

— beth (@bethbourdon) January 9, 2021

hannity confirms olive garden tweet real

"Coming up: There was a blue check tweet today that I lost my lifetime pasta card at Olive Garden. We've looked into it, we'll tell you what that's about" pic.twitter.com/upMKwtgaEV

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 9, 2021

i'm happy that i was wrong about the olive garden tweet

So first they got @realdonaldtrump, so he went to @potus and they got that one, then he went to @teamtrump and they got that one too.

Wonder what his next alt will be. Because he is *absolutely* not going to stop posting through it. https://t.co/NqhOGvgwhg

— Lee J. Carter (@carterforva) January 9, 2021

*sound of lawnmower* pic.twitter.com/WTazvVRFnQ

— hend amry (@LibyaLiberty) January 9, 2021

is there anything sadder than a poster with nowhere to post

he's going to be emptying his thoughts onto Deskmate on an old beat-up Tandy 1000 TX

lord knows xp

i wish we still had livejournal, he could post to livejournal

first they came for the president, and I did not speak up, because lmao

— lvl 45 chaos potus LIMITED EDITION! (@thetomzone) January 9, 2021

Trumplr