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

I don’t think he’s pandering to people who don’t. I think he’s shitposting to get a rise out of people like us because 1) it’s his only political move at this point 2) it’s his kink.

Trump actually went to Pittsburgh and said he was gonna bring the smokestacks back, mayor and others were like, "eeww gross." They've moved on.
Pittsburgh Symphony just now beginning w "The Paris, by Mozart," on NPR, believe it or don't

Pretty good so far!

I can’t believe there’s a new president I thought we were done with presidents

NEW: White House official confirmed for me that Joe Biden just fired Peter Robb after he refused to resign as NLRB general counsel.

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) January 21, 2021

To be replaced with the drafters of Prop 22 presumably

SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE

It’s Thursday!

(That’s a joke I know it’s Monday)

To be replaced with the drafters of Prop 22 presumably

Prop joe

I think he’s confused about what the Paris agreement is!

He's not this dumb himself: but he believes anyone who still follows him unironically is a giant moron who will either think this is clever, or believe it outright.

I think caek was otm tbh

Lovely stuff

ha ha I also felt a swelling of satisfaction and positivity, thanks silby for the rope-a-dope

I would point out the second tweet in that thread that discusses that the Robb firing is breaking a previous norm. Traditionally, that position would complete the term which is due to end later this year. I'm not going to cry about it since Rs have violated many norms, but this is not just cleaning out a Trump appointee.

Officer Goodman, promoted to Acting Deputy Senate Sergeant at Arms, escorting our new VP. #InaugurationDay 

How it started: How it’s going: pic.twitter.com/WF5twCmRTe

— CJ Johnson (@cjjohnsonjr) January 20, 2021

Promoted to a mask that stays on, too.

(The real promotion is also good to see.)

so great

I don't post a lot of National Review stories here, but this one....

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/witless-ape-rides-helicopter/

Trump actually went to Pittsburgh and said he was gonna bring the smokestacks back, mayor and others were like, "eeww gross." They've moved on.
Pittsburgh Symphony just now beginning w "The Paris, by Mozart," on NPR, believe it or don't

cruz was just echoing a shitty talking point used by trump when he announced he was pulling out of the accord, except no one but cruz cares a damn what instantly forgettable crap trump said way back then.

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless)

Cruz has started his presidential bid campaigning early in the swing states.

Think I saw that Biden has already fired a few people. Along with Robb, he apparently canned "Michael Pack, who was confirmed to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media in June" and "Kathleen Kraninger, who was confirmed as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2018." And the White House chief usher.

He fired Usher??!

Yeah!

He gave him a minute and it was off with his clothes (ceremonial uniform)

omg lol JiC

fuck yeah to the Robb firing, may these assholes never hold another professional job for the rest of their lives

ok legit lol at Uday and Qusay in the Kevin D. Williamson rant.

I know there'll be ten million of these--I thought this was pretty good.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/pardon.jpg

should have been a black sharpie

you know what sucks is all those Twitter threads that say "here's some goofy shit you probably forgot" and it'll be stuff like the Orb and the McDonalds spread and the hurricane Sharpie and the truck and the staring directly into a solar eclipse and it's like no those moments are engraved permanently in my brain

CNN only hires the smoothest brains

This team truly understands optics. These images will inspire our friends and shake our foes. pic.twitter.com/8i6qjUiJC5

— Matt Dornic (@mdornic) January 21, 2021

Huh?

What foes?

the anti-fireworks lobby

dogs

Russia's going to stop hacking federal agencies because they saw fireworks.

look at the size of that monument

Not circumsized

dogs

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl)

and their guardians

+ our friends in the anti-fireworks lobby

+ veterans

I had the layout of the Capitol building wrong. I thought the officer started off with the mob right next to the chamber room and lead them away from it. Not that he started elsewhere and lead them past the entrance as the commentator showed.
If he had the bulk of the mob obscured from him by the L or inverted L shaped corridor doorway is it lucky he didn't wind up with a bunch of the mob milling back in there. Or would that be a gallery looking down on the chamber. Open doorway anyway if the corridor is providing a bottleneck between elements of the crowd and the officer. Weird also that word of what is through the doorway they are mainly heading through. Would think somebody might tell the rear of the group to run or something.

Still pretty heroic move and I hope he does get recognised for it.

There will be a rescue dog AND a cat inhabiting the White House

living together? mass hysteria!

if he can unite those...

I saw the commentary by the black policeman who I think is NYPD on the Goodman footage which shows him leading the mob away from one entrance to the senate chamber and it appears that he became aware that he had lead them past the upper entrance. he then comes out with a piece of misdirection where he shoves or at least puts his hand on the chest of the lead mob member then moves away from that entrance. So there is at least abunch of people following him. BUt aren't there like 50 people in the mob? So is it surprising that none of them wonder about teh doorways they are going by.
Or are they only there because they can be lead around like sheep anyway. Would have thought at least somebody might have been curious to see wherethey lead to.

Also looks like the mob is coming in from the left of the picture as they head out of the doorway and are met by other police. So is there no communication passing through the crowd to tell them what is coming up ahead of them and that they might not be best heading in this direction or are they all thinking there's more of us than them?

Give Goodman all the honors and more.

The Bernie meme was played so fast. By maybe 7 or 8 pm it was over for me.

In other news: what an asshole Trump was, and how lucky we are to be rid of him

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/trump-reportedly-extended-24-hour-034700637.html

I don’t know what it was about this particular meme storm that got to me. Certainly the “it’s just another day, cool but I got shit to do” nature of his couture was punk as fuck and a lot of people agreed but ... I mean, how long until he becomes a sticker you see on streetlamps or a tattoo on biceps?

Maybe it just happened too fast for me because I’m getting old

kind of wild that biden is older than bill clinton

he's also the first real d.c. insider to be president since george bush sr i think?

"There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch." -->

Sources told CNN there simply was no vaccine distribution plan under Trump, leaving Biden and his team having to essentially start from "square one." https://t.co/u2hwMVMt10

— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) January 21, 2021

NO WAY!