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

look i don't actually know how any of this works but i'm pretty sure it's all absurd

you can count on me for endless variations on this take

Polling republicans about what they "believe" at this point seems pointless. Not sure if I found this on ILX (probably), but this thread really nails it:

Let me explain something to those of you who didn't grow up around violently abusive white supremacists.

*They absolutely do not believe their own bullshit*, but it's useful for them to pretend they do.

— Lili Saintcrow (@lilithsaintcrow) January 7, 2021

"You cannot wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep."

eephus, yes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/trump-arts-culture.html

Before Trump, I’d never had the feeling of wanting to fast-forward through the era I was living in, of longing to be in the future, looking back at how it all turned out.

ha DJI i think that's the only good politics thing john gruber has ever linked to

https://i.imgur.com/mIwozH8.jpg

That is a great link, DJI. I've come to believe that in most cases Hanlon's Razor has it exactly backwards.

xp that's a shitty CMS or a template bug.

Did he resign?

i was assuming some bug or something like that. it's funny though

Thanks, caek, that link is exactly it

the deep state resigned him

@caek - yeah that was it!

State Dept: anyone want to admit they got a crush on me before 19:40:41?

wow pic.twitter.com/fBNwKJUWrq

— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) January 11, 2021

eephus, I feel you. I am absolutely certain that my lifespan has been shortened as a direct result of experiencing the past four years day-by-interminable-day. I am exhausted.

this what happens when you subcontract out to four seasons total webmaking.

— 💀 damned sinker 💀 (@dansinker) January 11, 2021

software engineer here to explain what’s going on with the state department’s website right now. here’s what’s up: literally no single person has any idea how a website works and they’re all varying degrees of broken

— brian feldman (@bafeldman) January 11, 2021

The essay reads like the manifesto of a delusional conspiracy theorist — claiming that President Trump would remain in office on Jan. 20, after purging his Cabinet and replacing Vice President Pence. It predicted a 12-day period of national crisis that would likely involve an Internet blackout, the use of the Federal Communications Commission’s emergency broadcast system and “high profile arrests.”

“It’s 1776 all over again!” the tract declared.

But these were not the ramblings of an anonymous Internet troll or some random troublemaker. This was an official letter from the chairman of the Nye County Republican Party in Nevada, posted Friday on the organization’s official website.

The jeremiad drew a rebuke from Michael Ahrens, the communications director for the Republican National Committee, who called it “deranged and wildly irresponsible.”

But as of Monday morning, the post remained, with an update from party Chairman Chris Zimmerman noting that a message intended for his local community had sparked widespread attention online.

“Nothing in the letter was original to me,” he wrote. “I have no ‘inside’ access to the administration so what was posted was simply a summary of things that are readily available for any willing to do the research which was then provided to the membership for their consideration.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-riot-republicans-trump-conspiracy-theories/2021/01/11/f50e2ce6-5376-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

it's the "if you would put in the effort to do the research, maaan" line that always sends me over the edge. it is maddening to be told to do research by someone who has catastrophically failed to "research"

lol research is the funniest of the conspiracy power words

"Mr. Zimmerman, I invite you to research bofa"

BRB, going to go do some research on what we can expect from the next several days by digging through a stack of '70s porno mags.

(opens Google, mashes hand on keyboard, clicks send, reads results)

RESEARCH!

heh https://analytics.usa.gov/state/

guessing the state department website hasn't seen this much traffic in a long time

what's the theory

trump resigned

They think that ‘research’ is a magic word that protects them from scrutiny while exposing their opponent to loads of it. I have been told to ‘do research’ and had my journalism questioned by people from two groups: transphobes and conspiracy theorists. Both can FRO.

Their links to other state department pages on their own page don't fucking work!

hack? glitch? message from Q?

maybe trump promoted himself to super-president to avoid having to step down. i was worried he would do this.

The time noted would be 7:49 P.M., no? Prime time resignation speech ahead? I know, it's very likely nothing, but I wouldn't put it past this dipshit admin to screw this up and spoil it before an official announcement either.

i lold

Somebody somewhere refreshing this link like it’s a drop for Jordan’s.https://t.co/NUYKLbO82V

— KUSH JONES (JBW) (@kush_jones_) January 11, 2021

lol at the craziness the bugged link caused in like 15 minutes

I absolutely believe this last sentence.

A lot has happened in the last week, including the president losing his Twitter feed, impeachment coming to the fore and the PGA withdrawing from Trump National. He's "gutted" by the PGA move, a person close to the White House says.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 11, 2021

everything is normal

UPDATE: Sources tell @BuzzFeedNews a "disgruntled staffer" is behind the State Department site's change of Trump and Pence's biographies. More TK. https://t.co/5Gbb3cEhRK

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) January 11, 2021

it was me

seems weird still. why not insult him in some way instead of leaving this neutral and cryptic message.

Their links to other state department pages on their own page don't fucking work!

this is and was true of many, many federal government website pages for a very long time now

i don't mean to question you brad

of course he's most upset about the PGA lol

Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 4:20:69 also he poops in his pants

ahaaaaaa

"My first thought was that the Iranians had followed through on their threat to strike the Capitol."

Susan Collins on the Capitol siege. https://t.co/F6QdkaMaQp

— A Donald Not Booted from this Website (@donmoyn) January 11, 2021

when i first read that i thought it said "italians"

Trump's days in office have dropped down to single digits, and forgive me I'm in a "don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x8NcsTXI6s

Today was my first day at my new job at the state department working on web design and stuff. Really nervous, hope I didn’t screw anything up.

— Riot Fest (@RiotFest) January 11, 2021

lol

Finally a Washington hack worth reading

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (@FidelityChrtbl) contributed $557,411 to Turning Point USA in 2019. pic.twitter.com/nzohLetJyW

— Eli Clifton (@EliClifton) January 11, 2021

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." –Scott Adams #MondayMotivation pic.twitter.com/9X5T2MDrsP

— Fidelity Charitable (@FidelityChrtbl) January 11, 2021

lol the Scott Adams attribution for an extra twist of the knife

those tweets plus the fact they're a competitor of my company = FUCK U FIDELITY