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

Not Photoshop. (I swear I'd never heard of this Jimmy Dore fucker until December 2020 at the absolute earliest.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er0V9UqWMAMaC1f.jpg

why does cucker tarlson look like a fucking plastic action figure

Because that's what his viewers want him to look like.

tucker's 'confused because what you're saying is too horrific to believe' face is iconic

for years I used to think those memes were just using the same still shot of him as part of the meme until I realized they were unique shots each time and his face just...does that.

its bizarre

Yeah, he's totally Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
https://omigods.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/I-Was-Listening-to-the-Magic-Voices.jpg

did he get rid of the bowtie simply cos Jon Stewart made fun of him for wearing one?

probably not 'simply', but mostly

what a perfectly despicable, entitled, condescending pile of shit this man is

I forget about him now and then for a couple weeks but then every time I see him face it bullets straight to the top of most punchable

HIS HIS HIS face

i feel like there's been SO MUCH of this kind of news lately:

Breaking NYT: Prosecutors in Georgia appear increasingly likely to open a criminal investigation of Trump over his attempts to overturn the results of the state's 2020 election, an inquiry into offenses that would be beyond his federal pardon power. https://t.co/SdB215f0hr

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 16, 2021

and my questions are:

is there a rough estimate of how many separate criminal investigations are open, formal accusations, proceedings, etc? like, 10 different ones? 50? where are we? holy shit

and is there a chance of even ONE thing sticking?

I think yes! It is impossible to keep up with them though

Lawrence O’Donnell just speculated on national television that “the future will prevail”

how it goes, generally

man idk why all these states keep harassing our innocent President

nobody with any meaningful power is gonna be on this guy's side in 5 days

their jealous because he a fucking handsome genius

his face is supposed to look like a capybara's ass, it's part of the charm

I have a very good friend who looks a little like a cross between Trump and Cruz. It’s tough.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.eiEDGrPtmES6Zofp_2Y5FwAAAA&pid=Api

Good evening!

I read that in your Bela Lugosi voice

me (as my senator votes to legalize stealing money directly out of my pocket): Did you hear trump fired Steve Blarbby today? He’s done. Blarbby is the one would rein him in.

— jeremy levick (@jeremylevick) January 15, 2021

Yeah, that’ll help.

White nationalist Nick Fuentes just told his followers on a video stream tonight to destroy their phones if they entered the Capitol building on January 6th.

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) January 16, 2021

After encouraging his followers to destroy their phones, Fuentes backtracked. “I'm gonna say don't do that, for my legal sake,” he stated. pic.twitter.com/azjfvMFq81

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) January 16, 2021

Suing Ned for whiplash. Giuliani already agreed to represent me.

wow thank god he took it back he might've gotten in some real trouble

it’s cause he’s smart

also helpfully explaing Trump’s latest statements for what they are NOT

Trump tried to defund the police yesterday

also to defund covid vaccination in the developing world, and the hurricane detecting folks who don't sharpie their maps, the NEAA and the research dept of the EPA

THis was the video I was talking about earlier but couldn't find, wasn't sure what to use in search engine so that may be it.
would think if CIA hated trump it would make this scenario more rather than less likely. I also see that I substituted teh wrong legal enforcement body since its the FBI here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Uy0Uznw4E

I read that in your Bela Lugosi voice

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 16 January 2021 04:48 (nine hours ago) link

True story: His son lives in my town, and drives a giant Mercedes S-class with the license plate "BELA JR" He's an attorney who made his name and fortune pursuing his family's rights to profit off Bela's likeness.

lol

I can't help feeling that staying as Béla Blaskó would have given him an even better acting name.

Béla Blaskó Stats for Season

good morning!

4 more days!

until my miss me yet trump billboard is unveiled

Well, this ... Is ... Something. I'm so done with the cutesy yarn spinning/re-assessments:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/madison-cawthorn-capitol-insurrection-washington.html

omf GOD i can barely get through this.

who is this fucking asshole? i've never even heard of him! he's the youngest congressman, madison cawthorn, and he lives his life at a distance, like everything that is happening is barely tangentially related to his own actions

Cawthorn — now armed with a handgun, he said — took shelter in the office of a colleague. “It was a great bonding experience,” he said. “But it literally felt like a scene from The Lord of the Rings. You kind of see the orcs — Helm’s Deep, or taking over Minas Tirith, whatever — it just looks like the enemy is on something that they’re not supposed to be on … And the worst part was they’re all waving these American flags and these MAGA flags, and you want to say, ‘You don’t represent me at all. That’s not my movement. You’re not part of my party one bit if you’re taking this kind of extreme action.’ One can say, ‘You can only push somebody so much, and they watched the Black Lives Matter people do this all summer,’ blah blah blah — but at the end of the day, there’s no excuse for it.”

And yet for Cawthorn it was also, on a personal level, a missed opportunity: “I genuinely believe, had we realized what was going on and sent myself, or maybe Lauren Boebert” — he was referring to the freshman representative from Colorado infamous for her gun fetish — “some of these people who are just very recognizable to, kind of, the MAGA crowd; in the wheelchair, I probably would’ve been better, because it’s very easily recognizable. I might’ve just gone to the front steps.” And there, facing the rioters, he said, “I think we could’ve stopped them.”

go back to undergrad, madison

ugh, the next two paragraphs reveal that even mark meadows wasn't impressed

n extremely online Evangelical ex-linebacker son of a financial adviser, Cawthorn so embodied the right-wing ethos of the Trump era — “I don’t want to raise a family in a country run by left-wing socialists,” etc. — that it didn’t even matter to voters when Trump himself endorsed someone else in his primary. That was done on the advice of the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who held the seat from 2013 to 2020. Meadows knew Cawthorn personally: A few years before, he had been his intern and then a low-level staffer.

A Meadows aide at the time described Cawthorn as “a typical overachiever College Republican type” with a good sense of branding. (He dropped out of Patrick Henry College after one semester.) As an intern, Cawthorn was tasked with assembling each day’s “clips,” the collection of news items relating to the boss. “What I took away from it is it’s almost a scattergraph of where different news outlets and media organizations are,” Cawthorn told me, referring to partisanship. He said the Associated Press is “very, very fair,” and the Washington Examiner “does a good job.” Or actually, he wasn’t sure. “I think it’s them,” he said. “One of the Washingtons does a good job. You realize Politico leans this way; the Drudge Report leans this way.”

jeeeeeeeezus

He lowered his mask to drink from a can of peach-flavored Red Bull.

Red Bull: Lower that mask, and slam it!

Baked Alaska getting cooked:

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-alaska-crime-6666c735165a19a6ee019e412235bd8d

Red Bull gives you Kings!

Wouldn't be surprising if this was legit:

This woman in the pink hat calling out the directions on the megaphone is 100% without a doubt @laurenboebert @RepBoebert 's mother. The faces line up perfectly as seen in this video i just made comparing their faces with just shifting opacity levels and screen record. Retweet. pic.twitter.com/YcelLk8nYQ

— 🌊❤Battle Born Bitch❤🌊 (@NVTaraStrong) January 16, 2021