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

Because there wasn't the risk of being held accountable until now. These guys are absolutely terrified by the thought of being forced to vote on the record, it's a lose-lose situation for the GOP members. If they vote with the Dems, they will be haunted and hunted by deranged Trumpers and very likely primaried by someone even further right. If they vote to save Trump, they are handing their Dem opponents attack ads for the next election.

Also they've been using this rhetoric forever

Now is the time for healing
It's not the time for kneeling
The orange one is peeling
The FBI are reeling
them in

short of a civil war I can't imagine anything more divisive than literally alleging a nationwide election was stolen from you without any evidence whatsoever. Dems need to push this every time the whole "lets not divide our country further" line comes up.

dems have been willing suckers for this shit forever so why not give it a shot

Basically anything the GOP tuts and vehemently alleges we shouldn't do is probably something we should undertake with all due haste.

^

I don't understand why you expect this to stop?

I don't think it'll stop per se but I'm hopeful that not having the President be a stark mad conspiracy theorist who dehumanzies liberals in place of having a coherent worldview will tamp down the situation some. He really was an radical extremist which (further) legitimized and elevated the loony contingent of his party. With him gone maybe the whole "when Donald wished you into that cornfield, it was a GOOD thing" apparatus erected around him, the need for every other republican official and media member to play along with his lies and delusions, might fade.

Lee Zeldin is my congressman and I saw him debate the D candidate a couple years back - I got the sense from his smug dickhead responses he was the kind of kid bullied growing up and took away the wrong lessons from it.

one of the great, underrated PR tricks the GOP has used to devastating effect particularly under karl rove is some variation on the following

- tell this press 'this is how we're going to paint the democratic nominee. we're going to call him weak on defence, and we're going to portray his as an out-of-touch metropolitan elite.'

- proceed to do exactly what they say they're going to do

this has the effect of priming the press corps for the message, gets them all talking amongst themselves at how brazen you are, and puts the ball in the court of the attackee to prove they're NOT those things, and suddenly that's what the conversation is about

it's really not that fucking hard

Josh Hawley flashing the "It's Time for Healing" sign. pic.twitter.com/MWt3jtPivN

— Scott Shapiro, It's Time for Healing (@scottjshapiro) January 11, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEinCgoA48E

I think in the name of unity the Republicans should all resign.

not holding my breath but god I hope the events of the last 4 years cause the Democrats to rethink their media strategy

my entire life it's been like watching a basketball game where one team is flopping all over the court and decking their opponents when the refs aren't looking while the other is consistently handing them the ball and saying "hey dude I think I fouled ya back there, should be your possession"

At least Fox has learned its lesson:

"Fox is removing one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage and replacing it with a right-wing opinion show, signifying a further shift toward the incendiary programming that Fox viewers overwhelmingly prefer." https://t.co/EVn3NN2p9N

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) January 11, 2021

everybody on social media pointing out Capitol Rioters getting added to No Fly List and laughing at the vids, so far every one I've found has been for people kicked off for other reasons (not masking/being disruptive).

I'm guessing it'd be too early to get most people added to No Fly Lists (other than who has already been apprehended), right?

not holding my breath but god I hope the events of the last 4 years cause the Democrats to rethink their media strategy

my entire life it's been like watching a basketball game where one team is flopping all over the court and decking their opponents when the refs aren't looking while the other is consistently handing them the ball and saying "hey dude I think I fouled ya back there, should be your possession"

― frogbs, Monday, January 11, 2021 11:47 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

big corporate money likes incompetent cowardly dems, if we want big fighting dems weve got to break corporate power, the good news is that funding campaigns through small donations by ordinary people has been repeatedly proven effective

totally

the maybe harder part is a big chunk of the dem constituency also likes incompetent cowardly dems tho that may be shifting due to the *gestures generally around*

here we go

New: @FBI now reports in a bulletin "Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the US Capitol from 17 January through 20 January,” @AaronKatersky reports.

— Josh Margolin (@JoshMargolin) January 11, 2021

the "armed" part makes it a bit more than a protest, does it not?

People across the nation have been watching the insurrectionists get owned in the wake of their riot and thinking 'I'll have what they're having!'

reasonable question lol xp

"everybody on social media pointing out Capitol Rioters getting added to No Fly List and laughing at the vids, so far every one I've found has been for people kicked off for other reasons (not masking/being disruptive)."

yeah these proliferating is infuriating. people who should know better are retweeting it without even bothering to check the million comments below indicating these happened in the fall.

similarly, the news article about a congressperson 'leaving the door open to the capitol', which CNN has had on it's front page, and has been passed around as though it were about last wednesday (it's about something that happened in Oregon)

it's wasn't a robbery your honor, I was just protesting the bank

Why we should always take initial Twitter reports with a grain of salt, especially in fast moving situations. I initially discounted the first reports of rioters breaching the capital as breathless hyperbole.

I guess, alongside our impending governance of the nation, it's the dems' turn to throw facts to the wind while falling over themselves trying to stoke GOPtears.

Can't help but think, regularly and often, how much conflict might be defused if we all learned to just slow the fuck down a little.

*BREATHE!*

*CALM DOWN!*

Is Trump going to interfere with deployment of guard again

*THAT'S NO WAY TO TALK!*

Hm. Good question.

Is Trump going to interfere with deployment of guard again

Theoretically it could happen in DC. Anywhere else, up to the state governor.

Ah that's right

Meantime, the FBI now suddenly realizing "Hey maybe we should actually pay attention to the Internet" is its own thing but worth remembering the Internet doesn't predict EVERY reality:

Protest at #Twitter HQ is a bust. Police had flier that Trump supporters would be here to protest the president being banned from the platform, but the protest did not materialize. pic.twitter.com/NGuhIWObSP

— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) January 11, 2021

I don't think it'll stop per se but I'm hopeful that not having the President be a stark mad conspiracy theorist who dehumanzies liberals in place of having a coherent worldview will tamp down the situation some.

Worked for Obama!

xpost I do genuinely hope that a lot of people who've gotten their dander up have taken a look at what has transpired since the Capitol riot and decided they're actually okay with keeping their jobs and not getting arrested and put on a no-fly list, etc.

btw was very interesting the rapidity with which these sites nuked the q people, they couldve done it easily any time

― lag∞n, Monday, January 11, 2021 10:52 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/Labor20/parlerhigh.jpg

Lol, just got back from that twitter building non-protest.

everybody on social media pointing out Capitol Rioters getting added to No Fly List and laughing at the vids, so far every one I've found has been for people kicked off for other reasons (not masking/being disruptive).

after i saw the first couple of these get debunked, and then saw numerous other people repeating the "no fly list!" misinfo over and over, based off of only a tweet, i decided that i am never going to an airport again, fuck this

'As tempting as it is to wreak max havoc with no particular aim in mind and then suffer the long-term consequences of that perplexing decision, perhaps I will instead try to content myself with all of the aspects of my fairly dece life that I would have been casually flushing down the toilet by engaging in revolutionist cosplay.'

if people want to believe that attending the next insurrection will get you the no-fly list, misinfo away

Don't if these have been out before, but just noticed today that The Epoch Times has bought daytime ad space on my local ABC affiliate.

NEWS: U.S. Army Captain Emily Rainey has resigned her commission, @CBSDavidMartin reports, after leading a group of people from N.C. to the rally in Washington that led up to the deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol.
Rainey was a psychological operations officer, @JimLaPorta reports. https://t.co/C4JKwwjtM5

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 11, 2021

Xxxpost i ain't got no MAGA in my feed

xpost You could say she psyched herself out.

not sure when it actually happened, but parler is now down.

Last night at midnight PST, when Amazon kicked it off its servers.