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

wait till Biden's president.

Stuck in a training session at the moment, are they still voting on the rules? Or is this the actual impeachment vote?

GOP ‘22 platform is going be basically IMPEACH SLEEPY JOE and LOCK UP KAMALA. (becz “lock her up” is so exciting to the base)

Even if MAGA freaks wind up actually killing GOP congresspeople, the GOP will learn nothing from this.

There's a difference between not leaning and not giving a fuck.

Rep. Bob Gibbs walks right around the metal detector and enters the House floor.

We’re back to this.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 13, 2021

They should try this at the airport too.

So 4 of the remaining 8 outstanding GOP votes were allegedly "yes" votes, right? Or was it 5?

Oh wait, still not clear if this is the rules vote.

Apparently still a procedural vote, not for impeachment yet.

I think the impeachment vote happens around 3:00 this afternoon.

what is the point of having a metal detector if guards/security just let them in anyway

Ok, lots of confused people on Twitter this morning.

xpost It's specially rigged to sterilize anyone who tries to circumvent it?

Republicans are basically the worst and deserve to be drowned in a Noah's Ark-styled flood

I do not care about the metal detectors. They are completely pointless.

idk if i had to work with these psychos i might feel slightly better knowing they werent carrying

considering some of them actually fed info to insurrectionists

I wish everyone from AOC on down would start naming names. If someone in the GOP made them feel unsafe, or if they suspected they were in on it, or if they're crying in confession that they won't vote to impeach because they are afraid of their constituents ... name the fuckers! Lying and hiding is what allows these people to stay in office.

we don't pay admission/and the bouncers don't check us/and we walk around/the metal detectors

One thing that I can't believe is how different the last week has been without President Manbaby on Twitter and being able to projectile vomit his thoughts directly into all of our brains on a whim. It makes me think of an alternative reality where he is banned by Twitter in 2017 and how different the last three years might have been (probably not that, but nice to think).

I wish everyone from AOC on down would start naming names.

the impression I got is that they can't really do this in the midst of an FBI investigation

He's on Soulseek constructing his message through mp3 song titles

we don't pay admission/and the bouncers don't check us/and we walk around/the metal detectors

lol was thinking of this too, and also of the fact that Remy Ma subsequently shot someone outside a nightclub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrURe9s572I

the impression I got is that they can't really do this in the midst of an FBI investigation

Perhaps, but ... they're in the middle of an impeachment vote! So someone potentially being investigated by the FBI for having something to do with the coup could be voting right now not to punish the president for instigating the coup they were possibly a part of?

The good times...

Since Trump’s almost out of office, I figured this would be a fun time to remind everyone of the weirdest & dumbest sh*t our failed dictator did in the last four years that we totally forgot about.

Starting with a classic:

STARING DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN DURING A SOLAR ECLIPSE pic.twitter.com/XtvDltgJsv

— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) January 12, 2021

Listening to coverage of the impeachment vote and it's just ... I'm not in any way saying it's a good thing that all of this shit happened, but it does still just blow my mind that this idiot managed to get himself impeached all over again with just a few weeks left in office. It would obviously have been better for the country if he'd just conceded in November and started setting himself up as a post-presidential kingmaker, but in some ways this whole thing is giving us a level of accountability and lasting toxicity for Trumpism that we wouldn't have had otherwise.

yeah

and the Republicans left with two impeachments that they didn’t follow up on. none of them should ever again get to claim they stand for law and order. when people are killed, when other countries try to rig our elections - they sit on their hands because it suits them.

Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner intervened when other officials tried restoring the President's social media presence on sites that are often havens for extremists, such as Gab...

Not sure what Gab is... a ILX for fascists?

its another twitter clone, for fascists

I was permanently banned from Gab so I guess so much for fReEeEzEpEaCh

lol what did u do

OK, not going to listen to Jim fucking Jordan, fuck off.

gonna ban u if u keep using that kinda language in here bucko!

Shouldn't admit it, but for some reason I think I can do a pretty good imitation of the Jim Jordan type. Doesn't go over well though.

Gab Neb.

Perhaps, but ... they're in the middle of an impeachment vote! So someone potentially being investigated by the FBI for having something to do with the coup could be voting right now not to punish the president for instigating the coup they were possibly a part of?

Yes.

lol what did u do

Shouldn't admit it, but for some reason I think I can do a pretty good imitation of the Jim Jordan type. Doesn't go over well though.

― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs),

Make sure the guy you wrestle with is old enough.

xps

I have a constitutional right to post on ILX I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW.

Boebert just walked through the mag, set it off and ignored the cop who asked to wand her down

— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomas) January 13, 2021

Cool, cool. Seems like she should be arrested for this, but I guess they all just want a repeat of last week at this point.

This impeachment...has something to do with Chuck Yeager and the moon landing.

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan is railing against "cancel culture," saying that Democrats want to "cancel" Trump and that only one side is being allowed to talk and participate in debate. (He is, clearly, currently talking and participating in debate.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 13, 2021

I'm listening on radio, was Jordan wearing a shiny new medal?

will, you very nearly made me spit-take all over my laptop just then. Well done.

it blows a major hole in the GOP's entire defense of him up to now, that the more Trumpy aspects of his administration (like the constant lying, whining, propaganda and dangerous rhetoric) were actually harmless and that his followers are just God-fearing freedom-loving Patriots who take him "seriously, not literally". the thing that irritated me to no end was all the talk about "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and how the people who hated him really just didn't like his brash and manly personality. and if not for this they'd probably use that argument for the next few decades.

will, you very nearly made me spit-take all over my laptop just then. Well done.

lol McCarthy just said that "winning everything in sight" calls for "magnanimity from the victors" (i.e. Dems). The gall of these guys.