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

Is anyone else surprised he hasn't yet decided to address the nation again and rant and rave on the airwaves? From everything I've read there is no one left in the WH with the sense to keep him from doing this.

i don't think any of the big networks (possibly including fox) would take his remarks live right now, for the same reason he's been kicked off twitter and facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAUQaj6EJo

I really need Ol’ Joe to tell these folks to go jump in a lake.

NEWS: A group of US House GOPers who voted to accept Biden’s Electoral College victory are asking Biden to persuade Pelosi to back off impeaching Trump for Capitol riot. @RepKenBuck and others warn in letter it would inflame Trump supporters, damage efforts to unify country.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 9, 2021

someone (probable a troll but who knows anymore with these people) is spreading the rumor that Trump could be setting up an alternative government in Mobile, Alabama

The insurrection Divided the Country.

someone (probable a troll but who knows anymore with these people) is spreading the rumor that Trump could be setting up an alternative government in Mobile, Alabama

― StanM, Saturday, January 9, 2021 3:52 PM (one minute ago)

This has been hinted at for some time:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7kew_ZYnUyg/maxresdefault.jpg

Spread by the Mobile Tourist Board, presumably.

jfc that nye county gop email is insane

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, January 9, 2021 6:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

co-sign

Straight up copy pasting Q bullshit.

someone (probable a troll but who knows anymore with these people) is spreading the rumor that Trump could be setting up an alternative government in Mobile, Alabama

― StanM, Saturday, January 9, 2021 6:52 PM bookmarkflaglink

considering that nobody will respond to any of his orders, this would essentially be known as a "house"

A mobile home

(Stuck Inside of Mobile With the) Trumpist Blues Again

Meantime:

Good example of the factionalization going on in the online right this week.

Alex Jones isn’t a huge Q guy (he’s been on and off the bandwagon), but many who have been predicting Civil War for years, like InfoWars, are sick of QAnon’s magical thinking.pic.twitter.com/BbrgJyTn5b

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 9, 2021

Golly thats beautiful

La Don a Mobile

Xp

Lovely

nah, not enough "are... are we the baddies?" for me

NEW: @JoeBiden calls for setting aside deficit concerns to invest trillions of dollars in the ailing US economy.@BernieSanders, likely incoming Senate Budget chair: “The president-elect is exactly right that this is not the time for austerity politics.”https://t.co/oooXwAKQ3K

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 9, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnSrw8rE-dU

La Don a Mobile

Xp

― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5J6Qb11UHE

thanking caek and Ned for their posts itt

I know it’s going to end in tears but it’s nice to hear budget committee chairman sanders discuss president Bidens plans

Is there a "laugh till you vomit" emoji?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErUro34W8AIH5lz.jpg

tribunals and trails

storm is indeed upon them, for v different reasons than they think

The Stormfront is upon us, yes.

xp

This is worth reading

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob

i thot it was unmodermorated

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/09/parler-reportedly-removed-posts-by-trump-affiliate-lin-wood-calling-for-execution-of-vp-mike-pence/

As ever, people get interviewed by him expecting it to turn out well.

New Interview: I talked to former NJ Governor Chris Christie about Trump’s behavior over the past week, the future of the GOP, and why he has no regrets about standing up for Trump. https://t.co/hF8WKgiGDo

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) January 9, 2021

TUCKER CARLSON: Within minutes of Trump supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday, virtually every powerful person in the country erupted in rage at the president.

Business leaders demanded that Trump be removed from office immediately under the 25th Amendment. Members of Congress clamored to impeach him, and at least one Democrat suggested that anyone in Congress who supported his claims of election fraud must be expelled. Meanwhile, the media set about denouncing Trump as a terrorist and a murderer, etc.

Notice a theme? The reaction was all about Donald Trump. The people in charge of every institution in American life spend all day talking about Donald Trump. You may not have noticed, because that's not very different from any other day over the past five-and-a-half years since he announced his candidacy.

It has been all about Donald Trump all of the time. And the effect on us has been noticeable. We've gone from being this big, sprawling country with an enormous span of concerns and interests to a kind of sweaty, airless chat room of 330 million people, all of whom are simultaneously focused with monomaniacal intensity on a single man. That is not healthy, no matter how you feel about Trump.

Is any president worth all of this time and attention? All politicians come with a shelf life. In Trump's case, the expiration date arrives in 13 days.

Just for a moment, let's think about what life will be like next month. Two weeks from Thursday, Donald Trump will no longer be in control of our nuclear arsenal. He will not have command of federal agencies or even, most likely, his own Twitter account.

The rest of us, and this is key, will still be here. We've got nowhere to go. So what is life going to be like for us on Jan. 20? Not many people seem to be thinking about that, up to and including the people we pay to think about it. Donald Trump thinks almost exclusively about Donald Trump, but so does almost every single Democrat and Republican in the Congress. Who's got your concerns top of mind? Who wakes up in the middle of the night worried about your family? As far as we can tell, no one.

That's the main thing we need to change. It won't be easy, but the themes are pretty clear. Here are the basics: The point of the Republican Party is not to protect the personal reputations of its leaders, but its voters. In practice, that means protecting the Bill of Rights, the bedrock promises of American life. Without them, you wouldn't want to live here. Those freedoms are incalculably more important than any single politician.

Donald Trump could become immortal and win the next 40 presidential elections and his daughter the next 40 after that. But if America becomes a place where you have to violate your own conscience in order to hold a job, you're not allowed to protect your family from mob violence and your children can't afford to get married and raise your grandchildren because employers don't like their skin color, then what's the point of all of it? There is none. No one wants to live in a place like that or should have to, no matter who the president is.

We should be very concerned about all of this right now. Wednesday's riot is already being used as a pretext for an unprecedented crackdown on civil liberties. Just in the last several hours, we have heard people in positions of power demand that those who support Donald Trump should no longer be allowed to publish books or use the Internet or fly on airplanes. Driving cars, holding jobs and staying in hotels will certainly be next and we're barely exaggerating.

To justify these mind-bending, terrifyingly un-American demands, they are, as usual, relying on lies and hysteria. What happened Wednesday wasn't simply a political protest getting out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it (Which is, you know, what actually happened). Instead, they're calling it domestic terrorism and, needless to say, White supremacy.

Why are they doing that? Simple. They know that if they keep saying it, history will record it as true. They understand the power of language, and that's why they try to control it. They know that words have consequences. This is scary, and the party that should be stepping in to stop it, to push back, to tell the truth in the face of lies and to protect its voters from this deception and the destruction that inevitably comes next, does nothing. Often, in fact, they join in.

With bodyguards like this, tens of millions of Americans have no chance. They're about to be crushed by the ascendant left, the people who say, "Well, I don't think they should be allowed to fly on airplanes."

Why is no one defending them? The main problem, and this really is the main problem on the right, is that the people who run the Republican Party don't really like their own voters. They especially don't want the voters that Trump brought. Trump brought a noticeably downscale element to the party's ranks, and this horrifies them.

Many Republicans in Washington now despise the people they're supposed to represent and protect. In fact, it's not just Republican leaders who feel this way, but our entire leadership class. You rarely hear it spoken out loud, but it's the truth.

A very specific form of internal loathing is at the core of the reaction to Donald Trump. Nothing is more repulsive to socially anxious White professionals than working class people who look like them. The proles are their single greatest fear. They remind them of where they may have come from or where they could be going if things turn south.

So if you want to understand the hatred -- not just disagreement, but gut-level loathing and fear of Trump in, say, New York or Washington or Los Angeles -- you've got to understand that first. It's not really Trump, it's his voters. The new money class despises them.

Trump didn't despise them, and that really was his secret. In the end, Donald Trump did not judge his own voters. Trump ate McDonald's and his voters were very grateful for it. You'd be grateful for it, too, if everyone else hated you.

Thirteen days from now, tens of millions of these voters will not have Donald Trump to protect them. They won't have anyone. And unless the Republican Party decides to wake up and push back against the lies and acknowledge the purpose of those lies, which is an unprecedented crackdown on the way you live, you have no chance, either.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/01/08/tucker_carlson_the_gop_must_look_after_its_voters_not_its_leaders.html

we are posting tucker carlson bullshit now?

xp dude just post the link FFS

that is fucking infuriating actually

xxxxpost thanks for sharing, caek. good, but very sad article.

Donald Trump could become immortal and win the next 40 presidential elections and his daughter the next 40 after that. But if America becomes a place where you have to violate your own conscience in order to hold a job, you're not allowed to protect your family from mob violence and your children can't afford to get married and raise your grandchildren because employers don't like their skin color, then what's the point of all of it?


racist white nationalist shit

If the impeached official is convicted, the Senate then must decide what sanction to impose upon that official. Under the Constitution, “judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.” So the Senate effectively must decide whether merely removing the official from office is an appropriate sanction, or whether permanent disqualification is warranted.

Although the Congress may only remove and disqualify a public official, federal prosecutors may still bring criminal charges against that official in federal court.

In all of American history, only three individuals — former federal judges West Humphreys, Robert Archibald, and Thomas Porteous — have been permanently barred from holding future office.

The Constitution is silent on whether, after an official has already been impeached and removed from office, imposing the additional sanction of disqualification requires a supermajority vote. In the past, however, the Senate determined that a simple majority vote is sufficient for disqualification. Judge Archibald was disqualified by a vote of 39-35 after he was removed from office.

To be clear, such a simple majority vote may only take place after the Senate has already voted to convict an impeached official. Two-thirds of the Senate must first agree to remove someone from office before that official can be disqualified — a simple majority cannot, acting on its own, disqualify an official from holding future office.
https://www.vox.com/22220495/impeachment-trump-2024-election-bar-from-office

Tucker saw Trump's rise from television personality with zero experience straight into the White House and thinks, "hey, I'm smart enough, and likeable enough, and racist enough, why not me, too?

that article makes me want to fucking scream

It's been twenty four hours and Apple has indeed booted Parler.

Here is the letter Apple sent Parler: "Parler has not upheld its commitment to moderate and remove harmful or dangerous content encouraging violence and illegal activity, and is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines." pic.twitter.com/qZOeDAdyUQ

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 10, 2021

xp Yeah. I figure TC's upfront with the new subtext of the next "mainstream" conservative-Repub line, "We mustn't forget traditional values and what we really stand for, as the extremists rage---with your help, for just five dollars a day---"

Well not "new," but reaffirmed, real firm.

who will build the Epic Games Launcher for nazis

xp Following the reasonableness of just letting the clock run out and hoping no nukes that aren't too unpopular.

that *are* too unpopular.

re Alex Jones, his approach may be something other than earnest. It's definitely knocking his other videos this week down the search results.

The night before 5 people were to die in a coup attempt at the Capitol, Alex Jones said, "We're deep down in that water...not everybody is gonna make it. But that's okay. Because in the end, God will fulfill his destiny and will reward the righteous."

Footage @JonFarinaPhoto pic.twitter.com/faJnmKp7TA

— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) January 9, 2021

Here’s Alex Jones admitting the orders were coming from Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/madYgIQuNv

— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) January 9, 2021

Pence is, I think, allowing himself some grim satisfaction here.

New reporting from @Acosta: "VP Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and wants to preserve it as an option in case Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the VP says."https://t.co/rD5glDPx5g

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 10, 2021

If Pence pulled it off, he'd get a nice pension bump.

Whomp whomp

Parler CEO releases statement on ban from Apple and Google store. He states there will be more details about the plan ahead. pic.twitter.com/iCvo1b7Eou

— Parlertakes🇺🇸 (@parlertakes) January 10, 2021