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

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/who-dies-for-trump-the-case-of-capitol-riots-ashli-babbitt.html?fbclid=IwAR21H18X9Grx33uD2tg-8Ic0q0eIirun7TWBkhaNTdybt-cgKLnN4ScIbXI

Uh oh

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) says she has tested positive for the coronavirus, after she was in lockdown in the Capitol with Republican colleagues that refused to wear masks during last week's riot https://t.co/Luawb77nfF pic.twitter.com/ACgKe7d1Ze

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 12, 2021

So nothing to with any seriously topic, but kinda weird detail in that piece about babbit:
Kayla Joyce, 29, who said she is the mutual live-in girlfriend of Babbitt and her husband, Aaron

And wasn't she the one who isolated because she just assumed she'd been thrust into a superspreader event in the Capitol? Jesus christ. Those maskless republicans need to be arrested.

xpost

God fucking dammit
Re jayapal

people being polyamorous is normal

the phrasing is a little odd

"selfish idiocy" at the end, so fucking otm

she was worried about this the other day, in her excellent interview (linked upthread) that everyone should read: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/i-was-closing-my-eyes-and-praying-washingtons-rep-pramila-jayapal-describes-sheltering-in-place-as-mob-breaks-into-capitol/

How heartless do you have to be to not mask while sheltering in place with colleagues?!?

All these maskless cunts and the insurrectionists should be prosecuted for attempted manslaughter.

I just received a positive COVID-19 test result after being locked down in a secured room at the Capitol where several Republicans not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but recklessly mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one.https://t.co/wVmgroKsdf

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) January 12, 2021

not only to not wear it, but to refuse to wear it. i don't know where the clip is, but i watched a minute's worth of a group of 3-4 GOP assholes refusing to wear it, even after being directly asked to do so

the phrasing is a little odd

What confused me was I'd heard elsewhere that the new gf of her ex had restraining orders against Babbit. I guess that was a previous gf?

Ya, nothing against the practice; I’ve just never seen it tossed into an article like that before.

can't see this being discussed, there is a plot to kill reps on their way into the inauguration?

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/democrats-briefed-plot-overthrow-government_n_5ffd29a4c5b691806c4bf199

And another demonstration, which three members said was by far the most concerning plot, would involve insurrectionists forming a perimeter around the Capitol, the White House and the Supreme Court, and then blocking Democrats from entering the Capitol ― perhaps even killing them ― so that Republicans could take control of the government.
The members of Congress whom HuffPost spoke to Monday night were extremely concerned by the call. 
“It was pretty overwhelming,” one member said.

I don’t believe the widow who claims there was no ball tasing.

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— Joe Kassabian (@jkass99) January 11, 2021

do we have an ecofascism thread?

That’s any thread S*****u posts in

dammit beaten to the punch

A Republican politician in NYC has apologized for yelling ‘Heil Hitler’ at a rally, explaining that she actually meant to say “mein Führer” https://t.co/ss549fKdgz

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 12, 2021

i wonder how long it will take for journos to sift thru the ~80TB Parler leak and publish the sweetest, juiciest bits of kompromat—assuming there's any to be found. maybe it's all a just a bunch of innocuous drivel but the prospect of far-right bigwigs' private comms becoming public and incriminating them gives me a schadenfreude boner. pardon the expression.

like, if these people are yelling Heil Hitler at rallies i would imagine the stuff they thought would remain private will be so much worse.

people being polyamorous is normal

for disgusting savages, yes

5,775 posts

5,777!

Good morning!

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And we are going mad
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We've seen too many ads
Apathy's a drag

And we go downtown to do our shopping
And we work in sub-urb-iA
But I say

been funny over the last few years seeing how non nihilistic most of that band appear to be .
Actually seem to be pro something a biit more idealistic

Ya think?

but yeah wow we're only just into double figures of days and its already really difficult to navigate through that series of skipped messages at the centre of the thread. THere's going to be a lot more happening this month. Is thsi going to be a ,multiple thread month . Is it gonna bifurcate or trifurcate or something.
Quadrifurcate even?

just like that, pentificated into silence

Nobody wants to pay the pentecost

We could break this thread up like the last Harry Potter or Hunger Games or Kill Bill movies. Would this be the first two-part politics thread?

The Fellowship of the Thread
The Two Threads
The Return of the, er, Thread

Out 2021: Spectre

Use Your Collusion I
Use Your Collusion II

January 2021 Politics Thread: Infinity War
January 2021 Politics Thread: Endgame

Sheldon Adelson dead at 187

heard he tased himself in the balls

True.

can we go back to that NY Daily News article sic posted for a second because what in the

"I was just trying to heil a cab!"

gonna give this scorpion a ride brb

Not great news for junior and Jared
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— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) January 12, 2021

I don't know if I've been as terrified as I have been this week. Not only last week and the mounting threats for the days to come, but the knock-on local effects of Trumpism.

Here, over the weekend, a Black aldermanic candidate held a Zoom interview that was bombed by Trump supporters that started shouting "TRUMP 2024" and, far worse, started posting home addresses for people on the call and said they were going shoot the candidate and "all other Black people".

jesus christ

Wtf

jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ihKq34Ozc

Democrats were told that the Capitol Police and the National Guard were preparing for potentially tens of thousands of armed protesters coming to Washington and were establishing rules of engagement for warfare. In general, the military and police don’t plan to shoot anyone until one of the rioters fires, but there could be exceptions.

Jesus christ

I don't know if I've been as terrified as I have been this week. Not only last week and the mounting threats for the days to come, but the knock-on local effects of Trumpism.

I have been feeling this way since he won the Republican nomination.