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

LOL the first thing that caught my eye when I read through that FBI Boston tweet was NATICK / crosswords.

lol that is great. may the patriot party cleave the republican share of the vote in half in every state in the union.

I honestly think this is him trying to create his army of orcs.

Hmm, so who throws him off the tower at the end. (Yes yes I know, film version rather than book.)

All the more reason for McConnell & co. to support conviction, so a simple majority can subsequently disqualify Donnie from ever running again.

that works for me too

well shit i went 4 years without knowing who randy rainbow was just to blow it on the last day
horrible

this is all so enjoyable, however fleetingly

bye fuckface!

xxp don’t see the Republican Party fracturing that easily

Trump has zero idea what kind of expertise and organization it would take to create a new political party larger and more potent than the current Libertarian Party, which can't seem to elect anyone. Or, if he does understand how much work it would be, then this is just Yet Another Attention Attraction Ploy that has no substance behind it. Sadly, it seems destined to remain political vaporware, although maybe he could extract tens of millions of dollars from his ardent orcs, before he abandons it.

Yeah he’s more of a “say something and hope other people do it” kinda guy

I dunno...I think some of that old school "ground game" stuff got shown up this time around

he just needs to have people who will vote for him instead of someone else

no one thought he could build a campaign either

i think whoever said he is trying to scare off mcconnell from voting to convict is correct. he is floating this in the media to dare the republicans to kick him out, as he would take his followers (such as they are) with him. it could easily backfire by convincing the senate repubs that he needs to be barred from office for life (best outcome)

i think trump is going to get a show on oan or newsmax or something and then that will be it.

he'll be too obsessive and monotonous for viewers though so he'll just fail at this. i don't see him pulling in as many viewers as tucker or whatever. that is my prediction for the rest of his career.

Trump will be dead by the next election cycle. The next several years will destroy him.

depends on how many lawsuits and criminal trials are actually coming

predictions of death always turn out wrong

Anyway I think KT's thread here isn't far off, ultimately.

the thing about trump building a new political party is everyone knows he can’t build anything worth a shit but he can sure as hell wreck an existing one like a tomahawk missile strike. have fun!

— kilgore trout, brad r’s brother (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 20, 2021

My guess is that the main thing he's learned about political parties is that they are excellent money-laundering operations. A political party set up as a multi-level marketing scheme could be worth some money before it all went to hell and everyone involved except him went to jail.

My sympathy meter is not very high here. But, worth a read, however exculpatory.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/qanon-trump-ezra-cohen-watnick-460520

no one thought he could build a campaign either

much easier to do when you've got a political party flush with cash from ridiculously wealthy donors. not to mention the fact that the same networks falling over themselves to give him as much free airtime as possible won't even let him speak live anymore

This can't be over soon enough:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/haitian-boy-9-detained-as-trumps-family-separation-policy-pursued-to-bitter-end

Probably everyone has seen this, but a dunk is s dunk.

Don’t forget to dress warm tomorrow.

I heard it’s going to be minus 45.

— Travis Akers (@travisakers) January 20, 2021

Charlie P., cracking wise and a little hopeful at the moment:
But the most interesting hearing was that of Janet Yellen, the nominee to lead the Treasury Department. Yellen is nobody's idea of a socialist. (Well, she might be Josh Hawley's idea of a socialist, but then again, so was the barista who got his order wrong Monday morning.) Nevertheless, she called for some seriously big government to meet the current crises.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35257873/janet-yellen-treasury-hearing-deficit-national-debt/

Q Anon is so fucked. Choose your own adventure, but it all ends up leading a repackaged "blood libel" narrative.

predictions of death always turn out wrong

can we check the maths on this

xp You mean, the original blood libel against the Jews, or the way Palin applied it to herself when associated w shooting of Gabby Giffords and others that day, just because of her get-out-the-vote rhetoric and visuals? Do Qanon fans think they're being picked on? Hearing that from some other Trump followers online & and on air.

xp i din wanna say but

i think Q Anon is repackaged antisemitism. they lure people in but that is the story at the heart of it, one that is old and familiar.

Yeah, eventually someone will say Rothschild. Or Soros, who's the new Rothschild. I think sometimes people who repeat those things are only vaguely if at all aware of the connotations, but that doesn't make it any better. They're still serving as vehicles.

Will irish ilxors enjoy an improvement status on the board under seosamh i wonder

Soros, who's the new Rothschild.

otmfm

Bannon to be pardoned

is that official? because fuck that

links are cool on the internet!

News w @PamelaBrownCNN — Trump has decided to pardon Steve Bannon in a last-minute decision made hours before he’s scheduled to leave the WH. Officials cautioned CNN Trump's decision is not final until he signs the paperwork but Trump has told people he’s decided to pardon Bannon

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 20, 2021

the word "transactional" doesn't begin to convey the abysmal depth of his corruption

Allegedly he keeps going back and forth. I guess my question is, is the idea that he gets pardoned but the rest of the people indicted with him...don't?

Trump should pardon Biden.

some state should charge him with something, even if it's as menial as loitering at the Cuckservative Hut

multiple shirts violations

given he's under federal investigation for fraud, it's hard to see how he didn't also commit a bunch of state crimes.

i'm sure he ripped some tags off of mattresses

Can't rule out Bannon having some kompromat of his own.

The odds of these turds not committing more crimes in the next few years, while they still have even a sliver of the spotlight, are practically nil. From Trump on down. It'll be like OJ after he was acquitted.

i wonder which of them is going to die first

all of them, in a Guyana Punch Line-esque sendoff

what is this with expecting people you hate are going to die

They will

Unless you know something I don't