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

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

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

increasingly constipated

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

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, January 15, 2021 8:31 PM (forty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

with their track record i'm sure they'll be effective............
.........
..
at spending money with no results

President Trump on Thursday moved to freeze $27.4 billion worth of government programs in the last week of his presidency using a budget maneuver called rescission... proposed extreme cuts to domestic programs... The request also included cuts from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the Peace Corps and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars among a slew of others...

Scorch the earth and salt the fields on your way out

This fuckin’ guy

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

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, January 15, 2021 3:08 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the silicon chip has been pretty handy

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, January 15, 2021 3:12 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

“When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery”

Not even movies anymore.

America's a butt

the stanford prison experiment as a country

For a long time, I just assumed Boebert was a derpified misspelling of Brightbart.

I thought it was a misspelling of Boehner.

thanks i had managed to forget about that guy

He's a weed guru now i think

gave up his chardonnay, or just added weed to the mix?

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

he's said he doesn't want to (and hopes the market for thinking about Trump will be entirely exhausted soon after he's out of office)

only five more days, what could go wrong

even if he wasn't the best writer on Trump, the fact that Roth was a Trump gadfly before Trump entered politics should qualify him above any other pundit though

Biden's COVID briefing was forceful, especially with regards to the reps not wearing masks during the attack last week: "Grow up."

Hawley at 1% is giving me life https://t.co/54euo8l9ax

— Michael Nordine (@slowbeard) January 15, 2021

cruz and don jr neck and neck baby

Well this is a read.

Never has a DoD transcript made the rounds amongst mil journos -- for all the wrong reasons. For starters, current acting SECDEF "cannot wait to leave this job." https://t.co/YFCfyxjqBv

— Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف (@nancyayoussef) January 15, 2021