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

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.

ditto

DJP otm

The fear was always lurking in the background for me and would flare up at times - something my son would tell me about classmates using “Trump” as a threat, the pointed looks I’d get when visiting the rural PA area where I used to live. It was rising as we neared the election but is very, very present as of December and especially now.

Right, same. But it's reached another level that I wasn't not at all prepared for.

C'mon, I never said I wasn't scared before. I said I'm "more terrified than ever" this week.

it's a totally reasonable feeling

This country sucks and should be in a museum as an exhibit for how not to country

Been thinking about American gun culture and how the fetishization of firearms has always been pointing us toward armed insurrection and terrorism. I mean, not that we haven't been there before, but the gun cult in this country is at its peak right now (at least so far). We never even had "gun culture" until the last few decades, really. Gun iconography has always been the province of terrorists/freedom fighters/whatever you want to call them in any given situation. Insurrectionists. It's been mostly cosplay here to date, but it's not going to stay that way. It either dissipates over time or it builds to violence. Or, most likely, both — the more it tends toward real violence, the more it pushes away some people who were only in it for the beers and shit talk at the firing range. Either way, we've had a half-century or so of building this, it's not going to go away quietly.

and the guns people have now are more deadly than ever

All good, Jon. We’re all shook together right now.

On a somewhat more hopeful note, I appreciated this from Russell Moore. I don't know how much sway he has with anyone as a never-Trumper, but within his own moral context — which is of course partly abhorrent, pro-life, etc — this is a strong piece.

https://www.russellmoore.com/2021/01/11/the-roman-road-from-insurrection/

Yea I've had many sleepless nights in the last week. I'm usually don't panic guy and I'm panicked

one of the most disquieting things for me has been the increasing claim—among pols and dummies online and in the streets—that "we aren't a democracy, we're a republic"

the rationalizations are in place

I can sleep fine; it's waking and turning on the coffee the next day to worry again that's the problem.

I'm thankful I'm not living alone now.

Also my newly radicalized Antifa 67 year old mother gives me life

Feel like we need some joeks in here for levity

Azealia Banks, save us.

knock knock

It’s not a fun time to live alone - political panic all the time, health hazards if you dare to go anywhere, etc.

Something I’ve promised myself I’ll do this year is call my friends more often. Have gotten bad at that.

how many thousands of armed protestors does it take to screw in a lightbulb

_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

how many thousands of armed protestors does it take to screw in a lightbulb

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:14 (thirty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Several hundred sets of cold dead hands

knock knock

The FBI

FBI World Health Organization?

Fuh bee who

one of the most disquieting things for me has been the increasing claim—among pols and dummies online and in the streets—that "we aren't a democracy, we're a republic"

Yeah the rise of this bit of speciousness in Republican rhetoric has been going on for decades, and it’s become so internalized that all you have to do is say the word “democracy” around them and it comes out. It is one of those things I never let pass unchallenged, because it is so clearly dangerous. And is also of course completely stupid, because there’s no contradiction between republic and democracy, and in fact we are a democratic republic.

But basically we have one political party that is totally fine with not living in a democracy. As long as they’re in charge of course.

In America the joke is on the person saying knock knock

xp to Boring....he is going to the Alamo, which will be televised, and percieved by these nuts (as he intends) as a signal to "revolt"

he wants this

Hadrian otm, there's a reason this particular trip wasn't pulled from the schedule.

He's actually not going to THE Alamo. He's going to Alamo, TX.

tho I'd be amazed if he knows the distinction.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/what-we-get-wrong-about-americas-crisis-of-democracy

I thought this gopnik essay was actually really good, about how some form of autocracy, not democracy, is the natural state of things and that we are essentially waging constant battle to build or even just preserve liberal institutions

tho I'd be amazed if he knows the distinction.

He doesn't, but I've already seen some screenshots of the now deleted Parler posts that basically render the difference meaningless.

Time 2 start a rumor that Mike Pence is headed to Alamo dressed as Donald Trump

yeah from the guy who walked a bible over to that church I fully expect him to exploit the association

if not touch down for a photo

I mean, if we learned anything from the 6th, let's not dismiss the signals he's sending just because they are dumb and incoherent.

there is a section of his wall there, I belive

tbh I just assumed he was going to the actual Alamo as part of this wall trip because it's the most Trump thing possible

going to alamo tx and not the alamo fort is the most trump thing possible

Trump thought he was going to meet Tony Alamo.