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

American men long to be topped by a man named coach

College football coaches have the added bonus (for cons) of making liberal heads explode with bad faith "I've spent my life educating young men of color" arguments.

o shit, in the right rail of the above tweet, here's a reply thread w footage found on parler:

I have been combing through Parler. I found some footage that might be helpful. I have had difficultly sharing with @FBI @FBIWFO. Here goes (a thread). I deleted my first because it was unorganized. #SeditionHasConsequences #Sedition #WhiteSupremacy #Antisemitism #racism

— Laura N. Eckstein (@lauraneckstein) January 10, 2021

Oh shit, think there's some gore in there?
Just FYI. Each video’s source comes directly after in the thread
Lunamadre MA, LPC
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@FBI
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Wow Laura. You did a great service! That last one has so many faces. Thank you for wading into the cesspool for us.

talking shit with a gun in yr face is sure something

pic.twitter.com/KZ7w89t2jP

— Laura N. Eckstein (@lauraneckstein) January 10, 2021

It's more like a burglary scene--all through those narrow antique spaces---'til the goons come swarming back (and forth, them and what cops there are, also armed plainclothes)

lots of new details in this new post article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html)

Amid the mayhem, a large group of senators were secretly led to a room in a Senate office building. Stenger was with them, and the furious lawmakers peppered him questions.

“How does this happen? How does this happen?” demanded Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.)

Stenger could not muster much of an answer, practically inaudible as he dispiritedly debriefed the senators. “He was talking in circles,” Graham thought to himself.

Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., called Stenger’s attempt to field that question “absolutely pathetic” and further reduced confidence in the room. As Graham pressed for a better explanation, Stenger’s voice got weaker and smaller.

“Here’s your mission: Take back the Senate,” Graham told Stenger. “Whatever you need to do, do it. We’re not leaving this place. We’re not going to be run out by a mob.”

Finally, the Senate sergeant at arms sat down amid the others in the room, saying to no one in particular: “I wish I had just retired last week.”

You've got to be in a pretty low place to get dressed down by LG.

lmao doing the debrief in the middle of the emergency true lil baby tyrant shit

To think, he was just one week past retirement.

yeah, the senate democrats on the judiciary committee seemed pretty taken aback by his defense of the golden boy kavanaugh

honestly, the senate sergeant of arms sitting down and being despondent in the middle of a situation where they should be leading is pretty compelling stuff. this timeline is getting more real, very interesting stuff

yeah for real, fucking crazy

That video of the cop leading the rioters away from the Senate is amazing.

yeah, especially knowing the context of that, now. i didn't realize they were RIGHT THERE by the senate floor - that was incredibly smart thinking to lead them up the stairs the other way

what do you folks think would have happened had they actually gotten into the Senate?

probably a good spirited discussion about the constitution

xp And all on his own, too. Horatius-at-the-bridge stuff.

Especially impressive given that some of the rioters must have had a plan for where to go. That guy looking right - he knows they're supposed to go right. But the cop has managed to take control of the situation to the point where the rioter just automatically follows him anyway.

what do you folks think would have happened had they actually gotten into the Senate?

So probably a bloodbath.

That man is not a bastard

Toad woulda told them Pence was in another castle

There was so much open discussion on the Web---"Where are you gonna stay? Wanna ride with me? What guns have you got?"---hard to believe that *nobody* who worked in and around the Capitol was keeping up with it to some extent---like where was LG's staff, and why didn't he himself ask those tuff-guy questions of somebody way before shit exploded---also all those security suits with the drawn guns, they let it come down to this; I know they weren't in charge, but at least anonymous screams to media---oh yeah, why wasn't the media (by which I now mean CNN, MSNBC, WaPo) as hot on the trail *before* it all went down?? Not rhetorical questions.

They probably expected it to be another run-of-the-mill Trumper protest and covered it similarly, unlikely that the War of 1812 would happen again

Meantime

Wide range of reaction in online Trumpland circles, from anger at Trump to denial ("he didn’t concede!”) to depression.

But the strangest processing I’ve seen is people planning to found a MAGA newspaper and distribute it by horseback. pic.twitter.com/T60oC0FtUk

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) January 8, 2021

why wasn't the media (by which I now mean CNN, MSNBC, WaPo) as hot on the trail *before* it all went down?? Not rhetorical questions.

WashPost ran a few articles on it, same week, days before

I'm disappointed about the complete lack of Goya Beans in all of this. Expected much more from them after last Summer.

Why start a MAGA newspaper distributed by horseback when you’ve already got the epoch times distributed by a Chinese ballet company with basically the same content.

they could weave the news into the hems of ladies garments, it could be a whole thing

why bother with the epoch times when you have the hard times, a second rate the onion that is pretty much indistinguishable from real life

the hard times is often first rate

the republic has truly fallen

Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.)—the Republican who won the seat previously held by Justin Amash—tells Reason some House Republicans who voted to reject the election results knew they were lying about the election but worried about the safety of their families. https://t.co/Nl3hTFbIeM pic.twitter.com/7FV44XhOEk

— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) January 10, 2021

btw i'm not joking about the epoch times being a MAGA thing already

Epoch Times was inexplicably delivered to my house today (have no idea why). But it’s the Dec 30-Jan 5 issue and the front page leads with how maybe Pence can reject the EC votes & how Trump is asking supporters to come to DC for a big protest... pic.twitter.com/j2UyNtvzYW

— Jim Dalrymple II (@Dalrymple) January 10, 2021

Did I hear right a few weeks ago that the census hadn't been returned right so the corrupted data being presented had a chance to be reviewed or recollected instead of being taken as verbatim. Just saw a mention of GOP in census year so was thinking that at least their incompetence had provided a get around.

entertaining thread by David Rees of Get Your War On, bitd:

LOL I just remembered that GA now has TWO Democratic senators😎Fuck the GOP, NEVER forget, fake-ass tough guy Dan Crenshaw saw rioters *defiling the US Capitol* and tweeted like a PUNK instead of jumping out of an airplane and punching a car, LOLing at this fucking CHILD😆

— David Rees (@david_rees) January 7, 2021

I just want to say that (despite an occasional frisson of apoplexy) this thread has been on fire the last couple days. Legit lulz aplenty - just the pastariffic run of Olive Garden posts has been, as they say, lifefuel.

"The state does not lack teeth. The state has too many at its disposal already. The state lacks discretion, and all sense of proportion, and that is by design."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/01/a-domestic-terrorism-law-cant-solve-right-wing-violence.html?

Good morning!

So some asshole at NY Mag says what some of us here were being blasted for a few days ago and it's all good, that's fine and okay.

idk dyou not think you give at least as good as you get on blasting terms?

Not to attack, man, but theres a few that really do seem to expect full blaster privileges but could do with throwing some of that energy to shields a bit.

Fair enough.

I say it with love, like!

Oh, I took it as a reminder, not as an affront. You're right

Everyone guilty tbh i shouldnt even say its a few, the lord knows

Did I hear right a few weeks ago that the census hadn't been returned right so the corrupted data being presented had a chance to be reviewed or recollected instead of being taken as verbatim. Just saw a mention of GOP in census year so was thinking that at least their incompetence had provided a get around.

Everyone guilty tbh i shouldnt even say its a few, the lord knows

― Daz White (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 January 2021 bookmarkflaglink

The mod knows

Wow, who would have guessed.

"People took him literally. I never thought I'd see that," former White House Chief of Staff @MickMulvaney says.

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 10, 2021

Thanks Heez.
Hope they do wind up with some valid data at least, knowing whta the consequences of seriously wrong stuff would be.
Don't want that innaccuracy to be another party of the t legacy.

The interesting tension for impeachment is that future R contenders would love to clear Trump from the 2024 field, but voting for impeachment would likely remove that contender from the 2024 field.