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

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?

Has this already been shared here?

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-01-18/parler-partially-reappears-with-support-from-russian-technology-firm

39 hours and 12 minutes left in the Trump administration jsyk

Tomorrow is Pardon Announcement Day, I suppose.

Like when we wake up tomorrow morning, there will only be one day remaining of this shit. Even if there's a good deal of other shit left to deal with, I will welcome the end of this particular shit.

CUE THE NEW SHIT

Meet the new shit . . .

old shit
new shit
red shit
blue shit

Like yes, lots of things will still be terrible, but I feel like it will be so much easier to process and cope with those terrible things when the POTUS is no longer playing Russian roulette with the country and its inhabitants two dozen times a day.

for sure and i am hopeful the new boss can't be as bad as the old boss, but frankly until i and everyone i love (and hey everyone else too) is inoculated against the current plague with the MOTHERFUCKING EXTANT VACCINE THAT OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT IS INCAPABLE OF ADMINISTRATING, i am gonna stay mired in my daily existential crisis thanks

every death in this country at this point is even more senseless than before, more egregious, more criminal, more damnable

xxpost i hope so. been shit on so long it's like we're living in a cacastle

found what I wrote on 11/9 on FB:

"He is a bully that ran roughshod over many people. He is a misogynist, a likely sexual assault artist, and a failed business man who was born on third. He is a xenophobic scaremonger that is stoking fires that really shouldn't be stoked.
Putting this man in office validates this behavior to many people.

So forgive me if I don't find your "ho ho ho he's just a President, not a dictator" smugness amusing. There are tensions brewing in this country that this could be set off. Think about the Cliven Bundys of this world. Rebellion against.....being told what to do. Might makes right. That it comes at the expense of what would have been a landmark, the first female President, feels like another blow to the solar plexus."

god I'm glad I didn't have the ability to tell my younger self that it'd be even worse than imagined.

11/9/2016 that is

Frankly, I think we got out of these four years much more easily than we might have. Yes, things are going to be bad for a long while as a direct result of the Trump administration, but they could've been so much worse. Had he been more focused/motivated/competent, we could likely have suffered any number of 1/6-es prior to 1/6.

prior to 2020, I'd have agreed. he decided to do the majority of his worst deeds in a compressed timeframe.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has obtained an arrest warrant for a woman alleged to have stolen a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, with the intention of selling the device to the Russian equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In an affidavit signed on Sunday, FBI Special Agent Jonathan Lund said the agency was investigating Riley June Williams after a person described as her “former romantic partner” told authorities that Williams intended to send the computer to a friend in Russia who would then pass it along to the SVR, the country’s spy force.

Lund wrote that the former romantic partner said the transfer of the laptop “fell through for unknown reasons” and that Williams either still has the device or destroyed it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/18/capitol-riot-fbi-investigating-woman-said-to-have-stolen-pelosis-laptop-to-sell-to-russia.html

imagining her showing her lover the laptop during coitus and him going into the bathroom and calling the FBI on her and her breaking up with him after she heard the call

it's hard to imagine the pandemic being handled any worse

Brazil, maybe?

(by an american president)

no sooner did he go on his Tweet tirade about the flu killing more people or calling it the "corona flu virus" than a bunch of paint-thinner drinkers in my orbit start to repeat the same line.

generally, not what you want from your Executive branch

I hope Orban, Bolsonaro, and Duterte all fall out of huge trees next

but maybe if trump had taken it seriously bolsonaro would've too

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

Not, like, literally. Just that as I understand it or thought I'd heard it, presidents have been known to call one another on occasion for advice and recommendations. It is, after all, a pretty rarified club.

omfg about the Pelosi laptop shit, that is nuts

A different pillow company saw the images of National Guard troops bivouacked on the floor of the Capitol building and decided to donate hundreds of travel pillows and sleep masks to the troops. After much wrangling they were able to deliver to a detachment of NG troops on standby in DC.

It's been a long day, but I have pillow news! To recap: National Guard sleeping on hard floors while defending our Capitol. Lots of you tagged us asking if we could help. We tweeted in search of a service member in DC, and had a hit within an hour. 1/8

— One Fresh Pillow (@OneFreshPillow) January 15, 2021

get you a pillow that can do both

Our country has a lot of problems, but I'll be damned if I'm going to see it brought to its knees by a bunch of LARPing assholes worshiping the worst president we will (hopefully) ever see. If sending this stuff helps this group fight the good fight, then it's all worth it. 8/8 pic.twitter.com/9L4xbL3DOu

— One Fresh Pillow (@OneFreshPillow) January 15, 2021