Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight.
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This is key. Check back in six months.

not to be a negative nancy, but...do you think rising authoritarians/fascists in the GOP are going to idly stand by as trump is out of the spotlight and all of the rage they spent decades fomenting slowly dissipates over several months? if i was a rising authoritarian/fascist, i would recognize that as a time to step up and be the thing that everyone has been worried about since 2016: a competent US fascist

― Karl Malone, Friday, January 15, 2021 5:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like it's time for a jesus-y fascist. hawley is working on it.

Fortunately they're hard to manufacture.

The wannabe Trumps are severely deficient in charisma. At least so far.

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.

I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

xpost they could always run a megachurch lunatic, though that would require him taking a massive pay cut.

probably overstated but I saw something about MO voters not exactly loving Hawley atm.

I’m sure it’ll subside tho. ‘They’re all criminals and need to be booted... except mine.’

what this country needs is an ayatollah

xp

The wannabe Trumps are severely deficient in charisma. At least so far.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, January 15, 2021 11:49 AM (thirty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

^ This. I'm sure there are plenty of people vying for the job of Competent Fascist POTUS but not many that could actually go the distance.

gotta get a teeeveee show first

probably overstated but I saw something about MO voters not exactly loving Hawley atm

democrats and people with a conscience in MO fucking hate Hawley. so that's around 45% in MO, tops. the majority are dumbass conservatives, and any dissatisfaction they have with Hawley will only lessen over time as we continue through whatever gigantic world-ending Biden controversy they're going to cook up this year

can not argue w that.

especially if he makes a credible run in 2024

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.

I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, January 15, 2021 12:49 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What's this about the Betsy Ross flag?

Apparently the original flag design has become a fetish for mouth-breather trump fans

this is a false dichotomy, but i'd take $15 federal minimum wage over an extra $600 payment fwiw.

re the washington post poll of republican trump approvals

wouldn't the fact that it's the washington post asking tend to skew the responses?

aka 'oh hi washington post - fuck you i still love trump'

Dominion continuing to not mess around, I see. (Though this site is one ugly mess.)

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/statement.html

god that is such a cringy name

Pelosi open to prosecuting members of the House for collaborating with the mob:

Speaker Pelosi calls for the criminal prosecution of any member of Congress who aided and abetted the attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/ICKGhuNKVU

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 15, 2021

i feel like that is a total no brainer? should be happening already.

i think you'd want really thorough and ironclad evidence and investigation to move ahead on that

i feel like that is a total no brainer? should be happening already.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall),

but would George Mitchell and Tom Foley have done so

guess he's saving the whip for his boys, not his caucus

NEWS: Mitch McConnell is telling GOP senators their decision on a Trump impeachment trial conviction is a 'vote of conscience' https://t.co/kHiaaWASyX

— Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco) January 15, 2021

His boys, you say.

wonder if Trump's plummeting numbers has more to do with the insurrection or insane conservatives who are pissed that he "conceded" the election

it's a mix, but I'll take either one

https://defector.com/after-the-sacred-landslide/

NEW: Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin says "we're looking at more significant felony charges" being brought against Capitol related suspects in the near term.

They expect to have 300+ criminal cases by the end of the day.

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) January 15, 2021

Some more detail on that:

#CapitolRiot NEW: Nearly 100 criminal cases filed, open subject investigations expected to go beyond 300 within days. US Attorney Michael Sherwin tells reporters no direct evidence “kill or capture teams” but there are “bread crumbs” that suggest coordination among some groups

— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) January 15, 2021

in + outside the Capitol + understanding their motive, level of advance planning could take weeks or months. NOTE: Some who took part at the riot have self-surrendered, others volunteering information on activities.  Still face prosecution. @CBSNews

— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) January 15, 2021

That NOTE bit is of course about what you'd figure -- people realizing 'oh shit' and wanting to get a break.

good stuff from tish james

NY AG @TishJames has sued the NYPD for unconstitutional conduct during last year’s protests following the killing of #GeorgeFloyd. https://t.co/6Pl60cruOV pic.twitter.com/XMcy0n2snA

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) January 14, 2021

These "1776 Patriots" will lose their revolutionary fervor after wearing jail pajamas and eating jail food for a few weeks/months.

could go either way

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.
I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, January 15, 2021 12:49 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What's this about the Betsy Ross flag?

― peace, man, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:04 (one hour ago) link

Apparently the original flag design has become a fetish for mouth-breather trump fans

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:07 (one hour ago) link

This is a bummer. I saw one prominently displayed on the wall of the office of the S@n D13go superior court presiding judge in a webinar earlier this week. She didn't sound Trumpish.

https://defector.com/after-the-sacred-landslide/

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings)

this is EXCELLENT, thank you

also, lol Boebert continues her Unforgettable First Impressions tour across the Capitol

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a gun-rights hardliner who has vowed to carry her firearm around the Capitol, on Thursday backtracked on her accusation that Rep. Patrick Maloney (D-NY) had tied her to the deadly insurrection at the Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters.

“A thousand apologies @RepSeanMaloney,” Boebert tweeted. “I’m glad you clarified you were not making any remarks about me whatsoever.”

A few hours earlier, the freshman Republican had posted a letter to Maloney accusing him of making “extremely offensive, shameful and dangerous” comments during an MSNBC interview that the Republican claimed had “implied” that she conspired with the pro-Trump seditionists to attack the Capitol.

Maloney pointed out via Twitter that at no point during that interview did he even mention her.

“Um, I’ve never said your name in public, @RepBoebert. Never. Not once. (If you’re going to be a gun nut, you probably shouldn’t go off half cocked.),” the Democrat fired back.

He offered to post the transcript of the interview but warned her that it “might be like ‘a fact,'” so the transcript “might not help you.”

if david roth isnt already writing a trump book then whats going on

LOL @ “bread crumbs.” Very Q.

soo theyre saying i did an insurrection but other people didnt okaaay i guess??

TIM YOUNG:

"Sooo... was violently burning down police stations, murdering people, overtaking 6+ city blocks, and declaring an "autonomous zone" in an American city not an insurrection?"

"I'm confused as to how the definition shifts."

— dotJenna - Jenna Ryan Realty (@dotjenna) January 12, 2021

One man arrested on Thursday in Alabama, Joshua Matthew Black, for instance, spoke about spilling blood on the Senate floor in the name of Jesus -- while he himself was bleeding from the cheek, according to his criminal charging documents and images of him from that day and afterward.

Speaking to the FBI later, he told them he had accomplished his goal.

lmao

you gotta respect their game, i mean regardless if youre the... secretary of defense or whatever

... pic.twitter.com/ArUek6qyzq

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) January 15, 2021

Americans have a particular kind of crazy that no people will rival.

yes. USA has produced good music, film and decent tv, but beyond that we really shouldn’t be allowed to do much of anything

the silicon chip has been pretty handy

tbh I wouldn’t want to go back to a time before GPS but the rest? I’d manage.

uh oh it's contagious

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210114-brazil-s-bolsonaro-increasingly-isolated-as-trump-leaves

has increasingly isolated trump been banned from ivanka and jared’s washrooms yet

'Deranged Quixotes' next band name

Procedural clarification: under House Dem rules, a member is allowed to serve on two non-exclusive committees. Mine are Oversight and Natural Resources. One can ask for a waiver for a third committee. I asked. Others in same situ got waivers. I did not. I play by the rules

— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) January 15, 2021

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/mccaskill-staffers-hawley-election-459661