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

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

holy shit—that's the woman who was barking instructions through megaphone into that office, telling them where to go?

a sitting congressperson's mother did recon on the capitol building the day before

I wonder if Lauren Boebert and her mother is under FBI surveillance?

Is the woman in the pink hat calling out the directions at The Capitol on the megaphone lauren boebert mother???pic.twitter.com/xfks6t855E

— 🦊 (@F0XRIDER2020) January 16, 2021

yoooo

maybe jumping the gun here but

Their accents are very different

ah

background on Boebert - wow, what a real winner:

https://coloradosun.com/2020/09/14/lauren-boebert-congress-guns-trump/

Banana fana Boebert

Soon, he said, a security official “came up and said, ‘Hey, just wanna give you guys all a reminder: Everything’s under control, but if anything bad should happen, there’s bulletproof backing on all these chairs.’ And at that point, the Democratic side lost their minds. They just started yelling, ‘This is because of you!’ ”

The one yelling that was Minnesota's own Dean Phillips.

My mom’s congressman - and in some miracle, she voted for him.

I might’ve just gone to the front steps.” And there, facing the rioters, he said, “I think we could’ve stopped them.”

...and a little child shall lead them.

Baked Alaska’s plan to livestream his crimes is not going great https://t.co/zv8xsdkNwA

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 16, 2021

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

Guessing this is the contemporary usage of 'literally'.

there ARE a lot of pointy-eared Congressmen

"Their accents are very different" Boebert and her mother or the woman in the pink hat and the mother? Because someone posted a video of her mother speaking in that thread and it sounds exactly like the woman in the megaphone. I suspect Boebert is about to have some serious problems.

Justice Sotomayor, on the Trump administration’s rush to kill. pic.twitter.com/6WTaVPeljP

— Taniel (@Taniel) January 16, 2021

I have to assume someone is literally getting off on this

Will Catholic Biden commute all federal death sentences day 1?

couldn't get t to sit in the wrong chair with a sponge on his head at all could they

Because someone posted a video of her mother speaking in that thread and it sounds exactly like the woman in the megaphone.

I think they sound nothing alike. Boebert mom has thick twangy cuhntree accent, megaphone lady has standard American accent, possibly eastern seaboard.

this is just a summary of stuff that's widely known by but reading articles like this are a real pick me up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/trump-s-shambolic-empire-faces-long-odds-for-one-more-comeback

I just got the reissued/updated version of Dark Towers, the book on Deutsche Bank that got a good amount of attention/press, but am kinda figuring there'll have to be yet another updated edition here soon enough.

no expert on business or finance, but if he somehow survives all this then we'll finally know that no consequences exist for the man

One executive in conservative media who’s still bullish on Trump’s prospects for creating a subscription-based video service conceded that recent events may limit possible platforms, advertisers and partners. Still, the executive said that even controversial porn purveyors can find homes online.

Thank you for that, Bloomberg reporter.

New: US Capitol Police arrested a Virginia man as he attempted to pass through a police checkpoint in downtown Washington Friday with fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition, CNN reporting.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 16, 2021

(xposts) Another one in the same vein (you need to go incognito to read it):

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/donald-trump-after-presidency.html

_One executive in conservative media who’s still bullish on Trump’s prospects for creating a subscription-based video service conceded that recent events may limit possible platforms, advertisers and partners. Still, the executive said that even controversial porn purveyors can find homes online. _


Thank you for that, Bloomberg reporter.

looking forward to getting account at peetape.ai this summer

fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition

Self-radicalized ISIS-identifying terrorists are smart enough to choose softer targets. This bozo might just as well have thrown himself directly into a wood-chipper.

Love this quote:

“It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection... and we’ll do it as many times as it takes.” pic.twitter.com/bsLt7zL36X

— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) January 16, 2021

Moved by that because I am a sucker

yeah that's great

Along the same lines:

"Thank you, but fuck you for being there.” - D.C. police officer Michael Fanone on his response to the few rioters who helped when others were trying to kill him pic.twitter.com/EHKT7QMGvJ

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) January 15, 2021

Looks like Rep. Boebert’s mom may have been giving directions through a megaphone at the rally (and definitely was in town and was given a tour):

The @FBI and @DCPoliceDept are trying identify the lady directing every move with megaphone 📢!

See the picture⬇️⬇️⬇️ Have info? Call the FBI’s Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) @FBIWFOpic.twitter.com/O6kgp7fLBy

— Skyleigh😷#ConvictTrump DAY 339@🏠 (@Sky_Lee_1) January 16, 2021

so are there going to be like 150 pardons announced on Wednesday morning

that was posted above and there seems to be ilx disagreement

(xpost)

oh I didn't even mean rioters...I just mean every one of his criminal associates

Glad to see the #bluewave #resist brains trust is ok the case.

Those videos of cops above are copaganda at its finest.