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

^dark humor's equivalent of Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/fdny-gives-fbi-info-on-active-retired-members-at-us-capitol-riot/2821969/ Several stories about this tonight, but I'm paywalled out of for inst WaPo.

Great, now I gotta start wondering about my local firemen as well as constables on patrol.

-Sheriff Arpaio

i'm 60% serious that i thought i might arpaio in the crowd of 1/6/21 people

the fact that he wasn't makes me think that maybe he's choking on a brusselsprout back in AZ, the irredeemable asswipe

Arpaio is 135 years old

What a sad violent little clown

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-in-hiding-after-denying-blame-for-riot

I'm still stuck on the national guard thing. There's "reports" that Trump resisted and was thus Pence did an end run around him. But no "official" word this was the case? Given that he was itching to send in the Guard last summer, this seems damning wrt to being an impeachable/firing squadable on its own.

I would think that in the epistemology of the fascists involved if a group of them had walked fully armed into the Senate Chamber and we're disintegrated by a heavy fire of bullets for their pains they would become martyrs. so wonder how long things would go on before everybody looking for a new civil.war was dealt with.

Wondering if a fascist occupy/stop the steal camp or network of such has been perused. Or is a camp like that going to be thought to be a socialist idea. Horrific anyway.

Duh

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-1806ea8dc15a2c04f2a68acd6b55cace?fbclid=IwAR2v373wRX7LSby39v1fsNH2AjbX__bqc6F9NTLFejm7GRLFTYhMlgWz0yk

?fbclid=IwAR2v373wRX7LSby39v1fsNH2AjbX__bqc6F9NTLFejm7GRLFTYhMlgWz0yk

That facial expression (woman on the right in the main pic there)

That might be the dumbest, most obvious headline ever.

Records show JFK's first term ended by bullet, not ballots.

If you want to know why Goodfellas is trending:

Here is a compilation of the domestic terrorists being arrested to “Layla” #Goodfellas #CapitolRiot #airportarrest #DomesticTerrorists #TrumpCult pic.twitter.com/tXD3Ut7DjR

— Blond Ambition (@BL0NDAMBITION) January 10, 2021

Alas, apparently some of these predate this week.

In their defense, they were probably going for some extended f-alliteration there that was then struck down by the editor, something like:

Records show fervent fucked-up flatulent fascist faux-fuhrer fans fueled US Capitol takeover

xp

Whoops!

Holy shit. Parler’s been compromised and *everything’s* been leaked - including DMs, “deleted” posts, location data for images, and scans of legal identity docs for all the verified users. https://t.co/6pvvkC6zql

— Christopher (@shrydar) January 11, 2021

oh dear who could have predicted taht from the requests for all contact details

lmao they is beautiful (and not tied to the posts asking for email addresses although that is also funny)

I did wonder how the FBI/FAA squirrels got their no-fly list together so quickly, amazing

One little bit of solace I'm taking from the past half a week (because, yes, it's somehow only been half a week...) is that these insurrectionists are incredibly, deeply stupid people.

loving the detail about using free trial software to store identities

Thank goodness ILX signup only required scans of our birth certificates and SS cards.

oh wow. so people have the geostamps and times of their terrorist photos directly linked to their drivers licenses? shit guys give the FBI something to do yeah?

i also love the fact that anyone trying to delete posts after the event didn't actually delete them, but the evidence they TRIED to delete them does exist. wow.

think they're tired of winning yet?

martyrdom comes in a myriad of forms. Next revolution will be more antitec?

Yeah, the fact that users tried to delete photos from the Capitol can be used as evidence of guilty intent (state of mind).

Yeah that’ll help:

Jaw-dropping statement from @FLOTUS on the official White House site.https://t.co/UaAgUWAVDd pic.twitter.com/SULaa0UCzF

— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) January 11, 2021

primitivists for dumbass

Free Melania cos she isn't part of the problem oh yeah

Underrated post upthread

Today we are living through 150 pages of a future Rick Perlstein book

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 1:33 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

And I think he should be able to pad out the subsequent 650 pages with everything that happened in the week after.

The only rock left unfound is a great wadge of faked Republican votes...

Be best, America

Tell you what though, the US Politics December 2020: an uneventful month, overall was aptly named, by comparison...

Melania demonstrating the sober judgment that undoubtedly informed her decision to marry.

"I would like to call on the citizens of this country to take a moment, pause, and look at things from all perspectives."

yeah like maybe the Q shaman is allergic to shirts, did that occur to any of you monsters before dragging him i bet not

One little bit of solace I'm taking from the past half a week (because, yes, it's somehow only been half a week...) is that these insurrectionists are _incredibly, deeply_ stupid people.

xpost Shirts are for people with something to hide!!!

Statement by @FLATUS

I fear a "me sowing vs me reaping" situation down the line but I'm obviously going to enjoy it if bad things happen to fascists for a change

re the Parler leak / the Feds getting a big piggy breakfast buffet

r/LeopardsAteMyFace has all the material it needs to reach its final form.

Lotsa Parler users buying comedy mustaches and fake IDs today

IT's weird, it's like the stars are alligned or something. Like Xmas and your birthday in one if you're on the side of general justice coming to the fore. Trump leaving and sweeping up so many of the right wing idiots who've been supporting him at the same time,
Almost difficult to believe, so wonder how this si going to get screwed up. FBI or CIA having right wing sympathies or something?

Think maybe this Politico writer should have taken another stab at that metaphor? (TBF, putting the word "bottom" in the next sentence was a nice touch.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErdL5QRXAAAA_eU.jpg

Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing increasingly worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into Washington in protest.

To be on the safe side, Sund asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup.
But, Sund said Sunday, they turned him down.

In his first interview since pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, Sund, who has since resigned his post, said his supervisors were reluctant to take formal steps to put the Guard on call even as police intelligence suggested that the crowd President Trump had invited to Washington to protest his defeat probably would be much larger than earlier demonstrations.

House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving said he wasn’t comfortable with the “optics” of formally declaring an emergency ahead of the demonstration, Sund said. Meanwhile, Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger suggested that Sund should informally seek out his Guard contacts, asking them to “lean forward” and be on alert in case Capitol Police needed their help.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sund-riot-national-guard/2021/01/10/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

someone screengrab a scene from Max Lord's trashed office in WW84

oh wow. so people have the geostamps and times of their terrorist photos directly linked to their drivers licenses? shit guys give the FBI something to do yeah?

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 11 January 2021 13:30 (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gestampos

This story is a handy summary of the last couple of months re Parler’s tech woes.

https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466/