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

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/

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.)

plus the observation that "his staff is barely holding on" #somanylevelssolittletime

They found a compact Tavor X95 assault rifle, a 9mm Glock 19 handgun and about 100 rounds of ammunition, according to court filings. The agents also seized a stash of THC edibles and a vial of injectable testosterone.

(from that AP piece)

The eventual 9/11/Mueller/Whitewater-esque commission report on this mess will be something else

I wrote about impeachment, statehood, the Democratic Party, democracy, and an end to excuses. https://t.co/pXQGP2Rum8

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 11, 2021

I saw the word 'interregnum' mentioned in one of the related tweets below that and got shook...because that's pretty much where we actually are atm.

A word about the past: The discourse has been thick recently with allusions to the Civil War and Reconstruction—some of them coming, curiously, from Republicans mischaracterizing the aftermath of the election of 1876. But even the opportunistic references suggest a broad recognition that we’ve arrived at a decisive moment in the trajectory of this country. The Democratic Party is brimming with confidence that it will be on the right side of history whichever direction we take. But it should heed well the central lesson of the Reconstruction era: America cannot, will not, and should not be brought together if the price for accord is a refusal to defend the civil and political rights of all Americans. For history will condemn not only the new Redeemers, but those preparing to squander yet another chance to found American democracy anew.

So I'm guessing we're not going to see an AGNB now? Things have gone way past that.

Agoraphobic Nosebleed?

lol, All Gas No Brakes

lol thx

oh my god if they'd been there I would die of happiness

I am mildly amused that my non-metal friends now are sharing all these Iced Earth memes now that Schaffer is on the run.

can't wait til that idiot gets arrested

here’s the head the NYPD’s second largest police union on Fox News over the summer

computer...enhance https://t.co/852mS7w5Ik pic.twitter.com/01PdWzB43E

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) January 10, 2021

XXP - Pretty sure I saw someone link to a photo of the interior with Andrew in the corner.

AGNB reportedly interviewed Ariel Pink at the Capitol on Wednesday.

pic.twitter.com/uNte4GcF3S

Andrew in the 3rd pic

lmao perfect

Inbox: New York State Bar Association moves to remove Rudy Giuliani from membership

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) January 11, 2021

i had an inflamed interregnum a few years ago.... painful

Anyone else first learn that word from Joy of Sex?

If you do shave it once, you are, however, committed to a prickly interregnum while it regrows.

xpost Did you have to sit on one of those inflatable donuts?

new york bar association is (iirc, NY lawyers can correct me if i'm wrong) not the licensing body for new york lawyers. i believe it is like maryland where you can be a licensed attorney but not be a member of the state bar association. this is what i do because i don't want to pay for dumb networking opportunities. they're just kicking rudy out of a club.

After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America’s largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.
Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/cumulus-radio-conservative-election-fraud/2021/01/11/e12ec46e-537c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

it's all fun and games until five people lose their lives

this isn't aimed at you stevie, but as that Nwanevu piece points out:

In October 2018, a gunman animated by theories about migrant caravans which the president had promoted walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people. Less than a year later, a gunman raging about an immigrant takeover of the country killed 23 in El Paso.

lol:

Frank Luntz, a veteran GOP pollster, conducted a focus group the night after the Capitol attack with 12 Trump voters from 11 different states. He said they fell into three camps: those who believe the fact that President-elect Joe Biden won the election and think it’s time Trump move on; those who think it was stolen from Trump but he still should move on; and those who think it was stolen and Trump should continue to fight.

Luntz was flabbergasted by the sharp, even angry tone of the discussion.

“They were very emotional with each other, very harsh with each other,” he said. “This has never happened in a Trump focus group I’ve done. . . . Trump voters are like single moms with kids. They back each other, they empathize with each other, because they know the stresses and strains they each have. Not anymore. These Trump voters are ready to declare war with each other.”

That spells trouble for the president, Luntz concluded. “When you’ve got a unified force, you can speak to them as their general and motivate them to change their behavior,” he added. “But when they have broken down into tribes, it’s impossible to deliver a message that reaches everybody. Trump is much less powerful today than he was 72 hours ago.”

Luntz said that when he asked the group of 12 to name their preferred candidate for president in 2024, only two said Trump. None said Vice President Pence.

Man, the people profiled in that other top Post story:

Harding describes himself as a “peacekeeper” who charged up the Capitol stairs to protect both police officers and rioters. “I started to see everybody going up the stairs at that point, and I decided I needed to be up there. … I knew that things could escalate and I needed to be there to de-escalate things,” he said. “I was there to protect and keep the peace. That’s what I do every single place that I go.”

Harding said that the only weapon he carried was a dinner fork, which he put in his pocket because he believed he might need it to confront “antifa” or “Muslim brotherhood” fighters. It stayed in his pocket.

“Fortunately, I didn’t have to wield the kitchen fork menacingly,” he said.

Once again, I am banking on the short memory of the public. There will undoubtedly be a horde of Bitter Clingers but I feel/hope that the general GOP public might return to just like their normal levels of hateful insanity when they aren't being hosed down 24/7 with conspiratorial sewage from every source from which they get their 'news'.

a couple of xps but harbl is correct: NYSBA is not the attorney licensing organization for the state, but a industry networking/lobbying organization.

an

well sounds like a cue for other bodies to pick up on things.
THough it could also be taht he is just so non-U and gauche taht he doesn't make the grade. i.e. snobbery not a recognition of what he's actually about.

“The way he handled himself in the last 60 days has tarnished his reputation and his ability to be a future leader — and by botching the Georgia Senate races, his entire economic agenda is about to get overturned by the Senate,” longtime Republican strategist Scott Reed said. “He’s really gone backwards like no one ever would have imagined.”

to be clear, the only surprise here is that this catastrophic failure didn't happen in 2017

when they aren't being hosed down 24/7 with conspiratorial sewage from every source from which they get their 'news'.

I don't understand why you expect this to stop? I just saw a clip of Jeanine Piro on Fox News saying the Parler shutdown is "Kristallnacht" while the Friends all nodded sagely

Ugh, someone else called it "Kristallnacht" on Twitter yesterday, forget who. This is definitely going to be a "thing" they run with that certainly is going to keep tempers inflamed.

Think the maga-crowd just learned that word because Schwarzenegger used it.

Theyre using it because it was trending against their interests id imagine

they're using it because they are massive babies who've never suffered in their lives and as much as this whole thing is horrendous bad faith, a few of these fuckers might actually believe that their dumb social media drama is comparable to the inciting event of one of the deadliest genocides in human history.

to be fair none of these people have ever been forced to suffer the consequences of their own actions before

I don't understand why you expect this to stop? I just saw a clip of Jeanine Piro on Fox News saying the Parler shutdown is "Kristallnacht" while the Friends all nodded sagely

― rob, Monday, January 11, 2021 10:21 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i guess the one hope is that facebook, where most of these people get their loony bullshit, and the other big platforms get serious about moderating misinformation, there is obvs a huge purge happening now but well see if its just business as usual after this all dies down