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

lol

it's weird seeing 4x4s drive through different parts of greater vancouver with trump stickers and flags

the amount of trump supporters in canada is a lot more than i'd expect

Never seen a trump sticker but one of my neighbors has a Bernie 2016 sticker on his bike. Which says a lot more about my neighbourhood than Australia in general.

Here’s the letter pic.twitter.com/EEjB9yDmfg

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 18, 2021

Referring to

Dominion sends a cease and desist letter to Mr. My Pillow https://t.co/dYbExkcrW4

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) January 18, 2021

In New Zealand we have a New Conservative party. They’re pretty much Trump-like in their policies - xenophobic, racist, etc - but only got about 2% of the vote in a electoral system that allows smaller parties a chance at representation. So Trump’s support is limited here, thankfully.

btw KM just to let you know I did an IRL lol at "(Jill)"

Australian news seems to have really amped up coverage of US politics in the last few years, there’s only so many deaths by crocodile and you’ve got to fill a 24 hour news cycle with something.

Also Australian news has largely stopped bothering to hold Australian politicians or other corruption to account, so some extra room was created.

ain't that the truth

Would be a real tragedy if they bankrupted Lindell and sent him back to smoking crack under a bridge.

That is also because of the contrast, IMO, everyone can look across the pacific and smugly say 200milluon in underserved loot to coalition bowlos or 437 indigenous deaths in custody is that bad*. ‘Our PM may be a prick but at least he isn’t trying to burn everything down’ (except when everything burnt down in part due to his and his party’s capture by the fossil fuel industry)

Apologies, we should take this auspol somewhere else.

*it is that bad it both a tradgedy in its own right but also emblematic of over 200 years of degradation and oppression of First Nations people.

here's my take on the My Pillow guy - he never stopped smoking crack. perhaps he took a break from it but he never stopped.

As someone who has smoked crack, I can assure you that there's no way that guy still smokes crack

what's your take on Don Jr. and Kimberly then

As someone who has smoked crack, I can assure you that there's no way that guy still smokes crack

what's your take on Don Jr. and Kimberly then

Alex Jones trying to crash the inauguration:

“This is not a political statement. This is a statement of unity,” @garthbrooks says of accepting Biden’s invitation to perform at the inauguration. pic.twitter.com/k79OR5Trvm

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 18, 2021

that logo looks like two tortellini in a breakfast bowl

i.e. Brooks' lunch.

This is super fucking mean and I’m here for it

Don Jr. appears to be on a cocktail that includes cocaine, cocktails, and sedatives, depending on what iteration of Don we're looking at. Wouldn't be surprised if there's Fancy Meth (aka adderall) in there, too, subbed in for the coke.

Not unlike the decades long fear of nuclear apocalypse. The threat, whatever it was, was no less in the 80s than it was in the 60s, say, but no one was doing duck and cover exercises in the '80s.

We watched "The Day After," that was as far as we got.

Meanwhile, in the world of in it to win it:

The My Pillow CEO responds and tells @UrsulaPerano @axios : "I want Dominion to put up their lawsuit because we have 100% evidence that China and other countries used their machines to steal the election." https://t.co/guBEq88M63

— Kate Nocera (@KateNocera) January 18, 2021

this should be fun

bring it

every one of these clowns is 100% abt the double down

Now that he has continued to spread falsehoods about Dominion after being told that they are false, it will be even easier for Dominion to prove “actual malice” by the My Pillow CEO in court. https://t.co/7dyCIiZ4G9

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 18, 2021

the unfortunate fallout from all this will be no more game-changing pillows

I didn't realize ex-presidents sometimes get classified briefings. They were just saying on CNN that they're debating whether or not Trump will get them.

Debating?!

Well, we really shouldn't be too hasty until we've heard all sides of the argument. Maybe he promised to be a good boy from now on!

There was an op-ed in the Washington Post the other day about that. A deputy director of national intelligence under Trump argues that his intelligence should be cut off.

If they go forward with that, they'd better start checking eBay on an hourly basis.

why would any ex-president get access to classified info? that's nuts

our system of government is so fucking dumb

I could be wrong, but I think it's that previous presidents are so often called into service for advice by new administrations. Same with former CIA guys, etc.

That’s what I figure.

Well, we really shouldn't be too hasty until we've heard all sides of the argument. Maybe he promised to be a good boy from now on!

Since when has Trump concerned himself with intelligence, anyway?

Or needing actual people to tell him things?

He's so smart he already knows everything, so nobody can tell him anything.

Reminds me of...never mind, I will save it for Ask Dr. Freud.

Pillow Bitch is gonna have such a reckoning

He thinks he’s so-phisticated.

He's gonna be paying Dominion until he's in an urn

or a pillowcase

WmC, I'd bet our boy has already had his head in a pillowcase once before. With eyeholes.

Since when has Trump concerned himself with intelligence, anyway?
Yeah, I've read several times over the many dog years of this regime that prev. advisors were frustrated because Trump dgaf about daily briefings, incl. intelligence. Just as well, I suspect.

Would think future presidents might learn best what to avoid from t's behaviour so actively supplying him with new sensitive data would appear a negative idea.
Gosh wonder what he'll pull tomorrow his last chance to show off.

If he gets stripped of the ability to run for further office can they strip him of the use of the title too? Or add the mandatory prefix disgraced or something.

As long as they don't outright strip him, because ... gross.

strip-search on imprisonment wkd be ok

And what a thrill it’ll be.

NEW: President Trump recorded a farewell address from the White House on Monday, CNN has learned, offering a list of accomplishments from his four years in office. It was a taped valedictory message from the State Floor of the residence, which could be released Tuesday.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) January 19, 2021

Ah yes

Lin Wood is still telling people today on Telegram that “Trump will be President for at least 4 more years” pic.twitter.com/Fbu0UXUYg8

— Gabe Hoffman (@GabeHoff) January 18, 2021

xxxxp I have never in my lifetime ever read or heard about previous presidents being called into service to advise new administrations

Wait has T ever given a live national address?? Not a press conference or a rally but a good ol fashioned fireside "my fellow Americans" chat?